Dermacentor albipictus is a one-host tick: larva, nymph, and adult all stay on the same animal for the entire roughly year-long cycle. A single moose calf can carry tens of thousands of winter ticks - mortality assessments in northern New Hampshire and Maine reported averages around 47,000 per calf, causing emaciation and >50 percent late-winter mortality in successive epizootics.
Winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) outbreaks are tightly coupled to short snow seasons. Late autumns let questing larvae find moose…
Field studies in the northeastern United States routinely find a single white-footed mouse carrying dozens of attached Ixodes scapularis…
Ixodid ticks pass through four life stages: egg, larva, nymph, and adult. Larvae, nymphs, and adult females each take one large blood…
Soft ticks in the genus Ornithodoros can survive years between blood meals and live for a decade or more. A single infected tick can sit…
Dermacentor variabilis adults have ornate white-and-brown mottling on the scutum and are roughly the size of a watermelon seed when unfed.…
Ixodes scapularis takes three blood meals over a roughly two-year life cycle. Larvae and nymphs feed mainly on white-footed mice and other…