dog tick

Dog ticks are less harmful, except to dogs, from whom they can in sufficient numbers remove a dangerous amount of blood.

Deer and dog ticks are found in brush, forests, and uncut fields.

American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)

Wild hedgehogs have been found to carry Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown dog tick, which can transmit Boutonneuse fever.

A typical Rhipicephalus species is Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the tropical dog tick, specialized to feed only on dogs.

Vector: D. variabilis (American Dog Tick)

American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) are widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains and they also occur in limited areas along the Pacific Coast.

In the new project, the tiny chalcid wasp, which was once used to fight dog ticks, will be used in an attempt to reduce the population of Lyme-carrying deer ticks.

By comparison, 348 cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an occasionally fatal illness that is carried by dog ticks and is also known as typhus, were reported last year in the entire nation.

'It's a Dog Tick; I'm O.K.' One young woman, returning to pick up a knapsack that was being minded by other standees waiting to be called, held a plastic container aloft and beamed.

Many other types of ticks may feed on the cats but the only other tick that has been shown to transmit the organism is the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) but only in a research setting.

Unlike deer ticks and dog ticks, which carry disease and have been common on Long Island for years, the Lone Star tick does not need long grass, shady woods and cool leaf litter to survive.

The two ticks most commonly associated with North American tick paralysis are the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis); however, 43 tick species have been implicated in human disease around the world.