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==Life cycle==
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==[[Tick Life Cycle]]==
[[Image:Ticks mating.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Ixodes ricinus'' mating - Wikimedia Commons]]
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*Ticks are temporary parasites so only spend a short period of their lives on the host species
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*When larvae are seeking a host they are known as '''seed ticks'''
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*Both hard and soft ticks have the same life cycle
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**Egg → larva → nymph → adult
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*Soft ticks feed little and often and on '''many hosts'''
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'''Hard ticks'''
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*Classified depending on the number of host species they parasitise during their life cycle
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*Take one blood meal at each life cycle stage which lasts several days
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*'''One-host ticks'''
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**Each stage feeds and develops on one host (the same host)
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**E.g. ''Boophillus spp.''
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*'''Two-host ticks'''
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**Larvae and nymphs feed on one host
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**Adults feed on a second host
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**E.g. ''Hyalomma''
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*'''Three-host ticks'''
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**Each stage feeds and develops on a different host
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**E.g. ''Ixodes spp.''
       
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