Tick Life Cycle - Revision history

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Two-host ticks

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 [[Image:Ticks mating.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Ixodes ricinus'' mating - Wikimedia Commons]]
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 The soft ticks life cycle almost always involves multiple hosts. They feed once as larvae before moulting to become a nymph, this is followed by several more nymphal stages each involving a blood meal before moulting. Moulting takes place off the host, therefore it is common for each feed to take place on a different host. As adults the females lay multiple small batches of eggs off the host after each feed. The amount of time the soft ticks take for each blood meal is considerably shorter than that of the hard ticks and so they do not engorge to as great an extent.
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 [[Image:Ticks mating.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Ixodes ricinus'' mating - Wikimedia Commons]]
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 ==Soft Ticks==
 The soft ticks life cycle almost always involves multiple hosts. They feed once as larvae before moulting to become a nymph, this is followed by several more nymphal stages each involving a blood meal before moulting. Moulting takes place off the host, therefore it is common for each feed to take place on a different host. As adults the females lay multiple small batches of eggs off the host after each feed. The amount of time the soft ticks take for each blood meal is considerably shorter than that of the hard ticks and so they do not engorge to as great an extent.
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 ===Two-host ticks===
-:: In these species both the larvae and nymphs feed and develop on the same host. The nymphs will leave the host once they have taken a meal and develop into adults which will feed on a new host. The genus [[Hyaloma spp.|''Hyalomma'']] is an example of two host ticks.
+:: In these species both the larvae and nymphs feed and develop on the same host. The nymphs will leave the host once they have taken a meal and develop into adults which will feed on a new host. The genus [[Hyalomma spp.|''Hyalomma'']] is an example of two host ticks.
 ===Three-host ticks===

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 ==Overview==
-Ticks are temporary ectoparasites meaning that they only spend a short period of their lives on the host species, the rest of the time is spent free living in the environment. Ticks life cycles consist of 3 stages; larva, nymph and adult. Between each life stage the tick must take at least one blood meal in order to develop to the next stage or to produce eggs. Hard ticks take a single large blood meal at each life stage where as soft ticks feed in smaller meals more frequently and can do so on many hosts.
+Ticks are temporary ectoparasites meaning that they only spend a short period of their lives on the host species, the rest of the time is spent free living in the environment. Tick life cycles consist of 3 stages; larva, nymph and adult. Between each life stage the tick must take at least one blood meal in order to develop to the next stage or to produce eggs. Hard ticks take a single large blood meal at each life stage whereas soft ticks feed in smaller meals more frequently and can do so on many hosts.
 ==Hard ticks==
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 ===One-host ticks===
-::These ticks will feed at each stage and develop on the same host. This group includes the genus ''Boophillus''.
+::These ticks will feed at each stage and develop on the same host. This group includes the genus [[Boophilus spp.|''Boophillus'']].
 ===Two-host ticks===
-:: In these species both the larvae and nymphs feed and develop on the same host. The nymphs will leave the host once they have taken a meal and develop into adults which will feed on a new host. The genus ''Hyalomma'' is an example of two host ticks.
+:: In these species both the larvae and nymphs feed and develop on the same host. The nymphs will leave the host once they have taken a meal and develop into adults which will feed on a new host. The genus [[Hyaloma spp.|''Hyalomma'']] is an example of two host ticks.
 ===Three-host ticks===
-::Each stage of the three host ticks life cycle will feed on a different host species. In general the size of the host will increase with each feed as the size of the tick increases. The ''Ixodes'' genus of ticks are three host feeders.
+::Each stage of the three host ticks life cycle will feed on a different host species. In general the size of the host will increase with each feed as the size of the tick increases. The [[Ixodes spp.|''Ixodes'']] genus of ticks are three host feeders.
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	==Overview==		==Overview==
−	Ticks are temporary ectoparasites meaning that they only spend a short period of their lives on the host species, the rest of the time is spent free living in the environment. Ticks life cycles consist of 3 stages; larva, nymph and adult. Between each life stage the tick must take at least one blood meal in order to develop to the next stage or to produce eggs. [[Hard ticks]] take a single large blood meal at each life stage where as [[soft ticks]] feed in smaller meals more frequently and can do so on many hosts.	+	Ticks are temporary ectoparasites meaning that they only spend a short period of their lives on the host species, the rest of the time is spent free living in the environment. Ticks life cycles consist of 3 stages; larva, nymph and adult. Between each life stage the tick must take at least one blood meal in order to develop to the next stage or to produce eggs. Hard ticks take a single large blood meal at each life stage where as soft ticks feed in smaller meals more frequently and can do so on many hosts.