Foridas Best Pest & Termite Control

Floridas Best Termite and Pest Control

Foridas Best Pest & Termite Control
4230 26th St. W
suite 8
Bradenton, FL 34205
United States
ph: (941) 755-5035
fax: (941) 727-8927
alt: (877) 8-NOTENT
floridasbestpest@yahoo.com

Featured Pest

                             Ticks

There are numerous tick species in Florida, many of which never bother humans or domestic animals. Ticks are related to spiders and mites; essentially, ticks are giant mites.
There are three families of ticks, two of which are in Florida. The Argasidae, or soft ticks, are primarily nest parasites and are generally not pests in Florida. Most of the species of concern in Florida are members of the Ixodidae, or hard ticks. There are five species which frequently bite humans or domestic animals, and a few others that may be of interest. They vary in their host usage, habitat preferences, and disease transmission, and thus in the risk they present to the public and MCD workers.
Hard ticks are obligate parasites, requiring a blood meal once in each stage (larva, nymph and adult). All of the species of concern in Florida are 3-host ticks, so named because they use 3 separate hosts for each meal (Fig. 1). The hosts may be of the same species, but the tick will attach, feed, and then drop off the host each time. Ticks seek hosts by climbing up vegetation (questing) and waiting for a host to contact them. The preferred height and type of vegetation depends on the preferred host, but is typically less than 1 meter high. While questing, ticks alternate between host seeking in the vegetation and rehydrating on the ground. Contrary to popular opinion, ticks are not found up in trees! Ticks found on your head got there by climbing up after they were on you.
Ixodes scapularis - the black-legged tick. This is also called the deer tick, particularly in northern areas. It is one of the smaller ticks, with the females being red and black and other stages plain brown to black, with no ornamentation. This tick prefers small to medium sized mammals, birds and lizards as larvae and nymphs and larger mammals, such as deer, dogs and humans, as adults (see Fig. 1). This is the vector of the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. The ecology of this species is very different in southern areas than in the north, where many studies have been located. In Florida, the immatures rarely are found on humans or domestic animals. The adults are active from October to May and are the biggest threat to humans. The black-legged tick is found throughout Florida, but typically does not have large populations. It is most commonly found in wooded areas or along the edge of forest patches

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Foridas Best Pest & Termite Control
4230 26th St. W
suite 8
Bradenton, FL 34205
United States
ph: (941) 755-5035
fax: (941) 727-8927
alt: (877) 8-NOTENT
floridasbestpest@yahoo.com