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| What are seed ticks?
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Tick larvae
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| How can you differentiate hard ticks from soft ticks?
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- Soft ticks have no scutum
- The mouthparts are not visible from the dorsal surface of soft ticks
- Hard ticks have festoons
- Hard ticks can be ornate
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| True or False: Soft ticks can swell up to three times their body size whilst taking a blood meal
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- False
- Soft ticks feed little and often and cannot expand to three times their body size whilst feeding
- Female hard ticks can swell up to three times their body size whilst engorging on a blood meal
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| List the mouthparts of ticks
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- Hypostome
- Chelicerae
- Palps
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| Fill in the missing words about soft and hard ticks:
Soft ticks feed ??? and on ??? hosts. Hard ticks take ??? at each life cycle stage and can feed on ??? different hosts during their life cycle.
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- little and often
- many
- one blood meal
- one, two or three
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| What is trans-ovarian transmission and give an example of a species of tick which uses this
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- Infection is passed from one generation of ticks to the next through the egg
- Babesia
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| What is trans-stadial transmission?
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- Parasite or microbial organism is ingested during feeding
- Organism passed onto the next host as the tick develops (only in two and three host ticks)
- It is not passed onto the next generation through the egg
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| What is the most important tick species in the UK, how many hosts does it feed upon and what disease can it spread?
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- Ixodes species
- 3 host tick
- Transmits Lyme Disease
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| What climate does Rhipicephalus species prefer and what is it a vector for?
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- Warmer climates
- Theileria parva for East Coast Fever
- Babesia bigemina
- Babesia canis and Ehrlichia canis
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| Name some important soft ticks
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- Argas species
- Ornithodorus species
- Otobius species
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- What are the main methods of tick control?
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- Killing ticks on the ground
- Separate the host from infection
- Killing ticks on the host
- Enhancing stock resistance
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