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Ticks do not fly, jump or blow around with the wind.\u00a0 Ticks are slow and lumbering, very patient and amazing in their capacity to locate their host\/prey.\u00a0 Their purpose in life is only to propagate their species and unknowingly pass diseases to those hosts they feed on.\u00a0 They do not feed often, but when they do, they can acquire disease agents from one host and pass it to another host at a later feeding.\u00a0 Their sensory organs are complex and they can determine trace amounts of gases, such as carbon dioxide left by warm-blooded animals and man.\u00a0 They can sense the potential host’s presence from long distances and even select their ambush site based upon their ability to identify paths that are well traveled.<\/p>\n

Although the number of\u00a0tick species<\/a>\u00a0is in the hundreds, there are relatively few ticks that interact with mankind and domestic animals causing harm. While most ticks limit their host selection, others are opportunistic feeders and will feed on almost any accessible host. A tick, which feeds on a select host group, will move infective agents within that group. However, when a tick is a nonselective feeder, it can transmit disease agents from one host group to another. These nonselective ticks pose the largest threat of infection in man.<\/p>\n

Ticks generally are not born with disease agents but rather acquire them during various feedings.\u00a0 They then pass the disease on to other animals and mankind during subsequent feedings. When an infection moves from an animal host to a human it is called zoonosis.\u00a0\u00a0Lyme disease<\/a>,\u00a0Babesiosis<\/a>,\u00a0Ehrlichiosis,<\/a>\u00a0Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever<\/a>, and\u00a0Tularemia<\/a>\u00a0are examples of such diseases.<\/p>\n

Ticks have life cycles that involve three distinct life stages of development- larval (infant), nymph (immature) and adult (mature). The ticks known for the greatest quantity of disease infections are in the genus\u00a0Ixodes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Engorged tick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ticks do not fly, jump or blow around with the wind.\u00a0 Ticks are slow and lumbering, very patient and amazing in their capacity to locate their host\/prey.\u00a0 Their purpose in life is only to propagate their species and unknowingly pass diseases to those hosts they feed on.\u00a0 They do not feed often, but when they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":636,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656\/revisions\/5660"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-projects.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/bio-181l-zchxzbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}