Biology of Ticks, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1991 - Ecology |
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... activity on small mammals while nymphal occurrence usually follows the larval peak . Adults are active more or less continuously from mid - March to mid - August in a pronounced bimodal pattern , the early period reflecting emergence of ...
... activity on small mammals while nymphal occurrence usually follows the larval peak . Adults are active more or less continuously from mid - March to mid - August in a pronounced bimodal pattern , the early period reflecting emergence of ...
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... activity during the most unfavorable periods of the year , have enabled the species to expand northward over much of ... activity is initiated when the average daytime temperature exceeds 7 ° C ( MacLeod , 1935 , 1936 ) . Activity ...
... activity during the most unfavorable periods of the year , have enabled the species to expand northward over much of ... activity is initiated when the average daytime temperature exceeds 7 ° C ( MacLeod , 1935 , 1936 ) . Activity ...
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... activity since adults of the same marked cohort begin questing again as soon as the ambient temperatures increase above freezing ( Daniels et al . , 1989 ) . Nymphal activity is unimodal and confined almost entirely to the late spring ...
... activity since adults of the same marked cohort begin questing again as soon as the ambient temperatures increase above freezing ( Daniels et al . , 1989 ) . Nymphal activity is unimodal and confined almost entirely to the late spring ...
Contents
ECOLOGY OF NONNIDOCOLOUS TICKS | 3 |
ECOLOGY OF NIDICOLOUS TICKS | 66 |
ACQUIRED IMMUNITY TO TICKS | 92 |
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