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When fully fed they become a deep blue-grey or blue-grey tinged with brown,
and partially engorged ticks vary in colour from a clear primrose yellow to a dark
colour (brownish or greyish). On this basis they may be classified in four
categories: ...
When fully fed they become a deep blue-grey or blue-grey tinged with brown,
and partially engorged ticks vary in colour from a clear primrose yellow to a dark
colour (brownish or greyish). On this basis they may be classified in four
categories: ...
Page 137
are pastured in the daylight hours and which return to cattle sheds at night bear
engorged ticks only in the morning, before the herd is driven off to pastures, even
though they are not engorged on the previous evening. Night pasturing of a herd
...
are pastured in the daylight hours and which return to cattle sheds at night bear
engorged ticks only in the morning, before the herd is driven off to pastures, even
though they are not engorged on the previous evening. Night pasturing of a herd
...
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Behaviour and regulating mechanisms of the detached and engorged ticks The
weight of the body of a fully fed tick increases very considerably when compared
with the unfed stage (see Chapter V) and in some species, e.g. I. ricinus, there is
...
Behaviour and regulating mechanisms of the detached and engorged ticks The
weight of the body of a fully fed tick increases very considerably when compared
with the unfed stage (see Chapter V) and in some species, e.g. I. ricinus, there is
...
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Contents
Sense Organs Behaviour and Regulating Mechanisms | 214 |
Host Preferences and the Behaviour of Feeding | 236 |
Pathogenic Protozoa Transmitted by Ticks | 314 |
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activity Africa Amblyomma andersoni animals appear appendiculatus areas argasid Argasidae attached Babesia basis capituli bite body Boophilus capitulum capsule cattle cells Cervical grooves cheliceral coxa coxal cuticle cytoplasm Dermacentor disease dogs dorsal view eggs endocuticle engorged epicuticle evertsi external spur feeding fluid fully fed genus granules Haemaphysalis Haller's organ hard ticks hexagonus Hoogstraal host humidity Hyalomma hypostome immature stages infection inner Ixodes ricinus large number larvae larvae and nymphs lateral layer Lees legs length louping ill lumen male mammals membrane microplus moulting muscles nucleus Nuttall nymphal nymphs nymphs and adults occur outer palp palpi paralysis parasites pathogens period persicus pharynx punctations rabbits relapsing fever reported Rhipicephalus rickettsiae salivary glands sanguineus scutum sheep skin soft ticks spermatophore spiracle Spiracular plate spirochaetes spotted fever surface tarsus tarsus IV temperature Theileria tick species tissues transmission transmitted transverse unfed female variabilis vector ventral virus whilst
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| Title | Ticks and disease Volume 9 of International series of monographs on pure and applied biology: Division, Zoology Volume 9 of International series in pure and applied biology: Zoology division |
| Author | Don Ramsay Arthur |
| Publisher | Row, Peterson, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 445 pages |
| Subjects | Ticks Ticks as carriers of disease |
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