Ticks are a large subclass of arthropods, which includes more than 54 thousand species. These are mainly creatures up to 5 millimeters in size with six pairs of appendages and characteristic mouthparts. What are the types of ticks that pose a danger to humans?

Harmful representatives are distinguished by a variety of forms with a relatively small number of species. Ticks cause the greatest harm not through their bites, but through their consequences. IN oral apparatus These arthropods carry a large number of dangerous diseases - encephalitis, Lyme disease, plague, typhus, hemorrhagic fever and Q fever. Other species are provocateurs of skin diseases - scabies, demodicosis.

Dermancetoids can be distinguished from other mites by their characteristic coloration with brown stripes on the back.

If you find a large tick that has already drunk blood, it is recommended to carefully remove it and take it for analysis to any sanitary unit. This precaution will help you recognize diseases that may come with a bite in time.
Ixodes

In the literature you can find another name - the armored mite, so named for its strong chitinous coverings.

The arthropod is active in the spring and summer. It is rarely possible to avoid ixodid tick bites, so doctors recommend using special vaccines against encephalitis. You should worry about using it in advance - immunity appears only two weeks after the injection. But such a small precaution can protect you and your loved ones from a fatal disease.

Morphologically, several varieties of ixodid ticks are distinguished. The black mite loves dark, damp places. The characteristic color of its covers, as well as small size distinguishes it from other arthropods of this group.

The white ixodid tick has a creamy, whitish abdomen. The closely related gray ixodid tick is best recognized. This is the type of tick that people most often find on themselves.

Argasovy

Gamazovy

In the literature it is found under the name demodex. Demodex is a normal inhabitant human skin. Problems begin when it multiplies excessively due to a weakened immune system, poor nutrition, or taking antibiotics. Uncontrolled reproduction of mites manifests itself in the form of demodicosis. This is an acute inflammatory process on the integument, accompanied by severe itching, acne, and large areas of redness of the affected skin. Dermatologists treat subcutaneous mites.

Scabies

Ear

It is extremely rare in humans. The main hosts of this arthropod are cats and dogs. In them, this arthropod causes acute inflammation of the middle and outer ear, which without treatment can develop into otitis media or even meningitis.

Bed

Arachnoid

The representative is not harmful to humans and animals. Plants, including cultivated ones, suffer most from it. In plants, mites not only damage the integument and suck out nutritious juices from the roots, but are also carriers of extremely dangerous diseases.

Predatory

It is a very large arachnid arthropod that feeds on ticks. It is common where there are large numbers of dust mites. It is absolutely safe and even useful for humans. The predatory mite is a natural controller of populations of other microscopic arthropods.

Barn

Also found as flour or bread mites. Getting into the granary along with unprocessed grain or the remains of cereal crops, it feeds on both flour and already finished products. The presence of eggs or adults in food can lead to allergic reactions and digestive disorders.

Nature does not always treat humans favorably, despite the fact that many associate it with immortal beauty. There are a huge number of creatures in the world that cause fear, hostility, and irritation in people: spiders, worms, mosquitoes, ticks.

The latter make our hearts beat faster, especially when we see them on our own body. Over its long life, this arthropod has been able to weave many myths around itself, some of which are partly true. The main question is: are there white ticks? We are used to thinking of them as something dark and small, but there are some types of ticks that have a light body.

The white mite is unknown to science, but in nature it is found quite often.

There are the following types:

• ixodid tick;
• dusty;
• arachnoid;
• scabies.

Important: some subspecies can be dark in color (from burgundy to dark brown), but if there is a light pattern on the back, then it can be conditionally classified as white.

This variety is worth paying attention to special attention, since the ixodid tick is often a carrier of terrible diseases. The Ixodida species is one of the largest; representatives can often reach more than 1 cm in length, with females being larger than males.

The body is a flat, bag-shaped oval, to which the legs and proboscis grow, often mistaken for the head. It remains flat until the tick gets drunk; after eating, the body has a streamlined round egg shape. Unlike other types, it does not consist of a cephalothorax and abdomen. The arachnid's brain is located in its abdomen.

Color can vary from light burgundy to earthy brown. There is a "pattern" on the back white with dark inclusions, sometimes the color of the pattern may be closer to sand. Ixodida from tropical habitats have bright colors.

An adult has 8 legs equipped with suction cups for moving vertically and horizontal surface, this is its advantage over other arachnids. When a tick senses danger, it tucks its paws under itself and pretends to be dead.

IN ordinary life A large white tick hides on plant leaves to attack its prey unnoticed. A characteristic pose for an attack is an extended front pair of legs, prepared to jump on a person. Thanks to the spikes and teeth on the body, it can easily move around the victim and look for a place to suck blood.

Female ixodid ticks lay 17,000 eggs during their life cycle (up to two years) and raise them in the ground.

The most common Ixodida species found in temperate countries are:

• forest;
• taiga;
• village;
• canine (after drinking blood, it turns snow-white).

It is difficult to notice such a mite on a person, as it looks like a pimple or wen. Most of the “victims” are trying to squeeze out, to get rid of the “festering”, this aggravates the situation. The proboscis of the arthropod comes off and remains in the skin, causing redness and itching.

Dust consists of dead pieces of skin, dirt, sand and even microscopically small animals. Dust mites are an unexpected guest in apartments, and it is almost impossible to get rid of them. Historically, this white mite was brought into the home by domestic animals and has not been removed until now. Modern scientists have identified more than 150 species of dust mites.

The body length of dermatophagoides pteronyssimus does not exceed half a centimeter; most often, adult individuals measure 0.2-0.3 millimeters.

The appearance resembles a white, transparent spider with four pairs of legs with suction cups that allow it to “stick” to any surface, so you cannot remove ticks from the apartment with a vacuum cleaner. When cleaning in especially dusty places, you must use a cloth and a soap solution with special products.

For humans and animals white small tick, living in dust, is almost harmless, since it is a saprophyte, that is, it eats dead remains of vital activity. However, it tends to cause allergic reactions and enter the respiratory tract.

Ear mite

This type of tick concerns pet owners. Some cat owners do not understand why brown dirt accumulates in the ears of their pets, which causes a lot of inconvenience to the pets themselves and their owners. The point is the most common cat and dog disease - ear scabies.

The length of an adult ear mite is from 0.2 mm to 0.6 mm. It has a light, translucent, white or yellowish oblong body with six legs and small antennae.

With its negative vital activity, the tick with a white body causes inflammation of the ears, excessive secretion of wax and even deafness in the animal, so at the first sign you should contact a specialist for help. Treatment for ear scabies does not take much time; the veterinarian will prescribe the necessary remedies that will easily remove white mites from a dog or cat.

Spider mite

The spider mite is a small animal, not exceeding 6 millimeters in size. Coloring can change under the influence of many factors: habitat, nutrition, climate, etc. Most often white spider mite light green, white or orange.

Ticks live in "flocks" on back side plant leaves between window frames, in the soil and weave a web around their place of residence. They feed on juice by sucking it out of plants. The “bite” area becomes covered with a light film and dries out. In addition to such harm, it carries infections: gray rot And viral diseases ornamental plants.

You can get rid of unwanted guests on indoor and garden flowers using an anti-mite product, sold at any hardware store.

It is difficult to get rid of a food pest, especially when it is impossible to notice it due to its size and color. Length flour mite approximately 2-4 mm, it has a white body and brown legs.

If you notice white-bellied mites in flour, you need to urgently inspect the cereals and bulk products and find the place where these arachnids came from.

Important: there have been cases when customers brought pests home from the store in bags of cereals. Affected products must be thrown away; they are not suitable for consumption. The remaining cereals and flour must be calcined or kept in the freezer.

The mite lives in the following products:

• flour;
• dried fruits;
• dried apples and mushrooms;
• dairy products;
• cereals.

Important: the product will have a sweetish smell if it has been infested with flour mites.

The period of wakefulness is evening and night, then the itching is felt very strongly. The white mite causes discomfort in humans and is transmitted through direct contact. It takes a week for a tick to “get comfortable” in a new territory.

Myths about white ticks

People tend to greatly exaggerate facts. There are rumors about a huge invisible tick, but this is only an ixodid tick with a light body color. Some arthropods acquire a white skeletal tint for a while, as they live away from sunlight.

There are cases where some types of ticks for a long time they live in caves, so they become literally transparent; this has never happened in our area.

Conclusion

White mites are an extremely unpleasant natural phenomenon, but there are many ways to combat them, the main thing is to recognize the problem in time and begin to get rid of it. The most dangerous type of tick with a light color is the ixodid tick; it is easier to notice it on the surface of the body than all the others.

But in addition to its epidemiological significance, ixodid ticks are very interesting due to the unique features of their biology and interaction with their hosts. We will consider many of these nuances in more detail later...

Representatives of the family

The family Ixodidae, despite the relatively small number of species included in it, is distinguished by a significant diversity of its representatives, both in appearance, and (to a greater extent) by way of life.

One of the most typical and well-known representatives is the taiga tick Ixodes persulcatus, which lives mainly in the northeastern regions of Russia and is a vector of spring-summer ticks here. tick-borne encephalitis. With the onset of the warm season, its nymphs, after wintering in the forest floor, begin to hunt for small mammals and reptiles, and adult individuals search for large animals (or humans) for food.

The photo below shows adult representatives of this species:

Species of ixodids from the genus Dermacentor, recognizable by the white enamel pattern on the dorsal shield and also found in Europe and the European part of Russia, are the main vectors of tularemia and tick-borne typhus:

On the Black Sea and Caspian coasts, the brown dog tick is widespread, which can carry Marseilles spotted fever. At each stage of development, such a tick feeds only on dogs, but a person can become infected if he crushes the tick and then spreads the infection to the mucous membranes of the mouth, eyes or nose.

Photo of a brown dog tick:

The photo below shows the pig mite Amblyomma sculptum:

Note

Today, the family is systematically divided into two groups, one of which includes, in fact, the genus Ixodes, and the other - all the rest. But the lack of data on fossil species still leaves open question on the taxonomy of the group of ixodid ticks.

Appearance and anatomical features of ixodid ticks

The appearance of ixodid ticks is quite recognizable. Adult representatives of most species in a hungry state reach a size of about 5 mm, and their body is strongly flattened in the dorso-ventral direction.

The photo below shows the gnathosoma of a engorged female:

Ixodid ticks have olfactory organs on their legs, and therefore they usually wait for their prey, putting them forward. There are also many bristles on the body and legs that help to stay on different surfaces, serve as an element of protection and help in resettlement.

Adult individuals have differences in morphology, depending on gender - females have only a small scute on the back, and in males the scute covers the entire back. This is due to the fact that females feed much more intensively, and the large scutum - a hard chitinous formation - will interfere with the stretching of the body when sucking blood.

Note

It is worth noting that stretching occurs due to a special cuticle that completely covers the body of the tick. In a hungry individual, this cuticle contains many microfolds and grooves, which straighten during saturation, and the body enlarges, acquiring a rounded shape and a grayish tint. The color of a hungry tick can vary from yellow-brown to almost black.

The oral apparatus of ixodid ticks is ideally suited for feeding on blood on hosts with dense body coverings. It consists of a base, a proboscis, one pair of chelicerae enclosed in cases, and a pair of palps. The base of the proboscis is a capsule with a dense chitinous cover, where the ducts of the salivary glands are located. The palps consist of 4 segments and perform a tactile function.

The hypostome, or proboscis, is a rigid chitinous plate fixedly attached to the base. On it there are rows of sharp hooks curved back, which help to cut through the skin like a saw and fasten into it like a harpoon.

In addition to painkillers and blood anticoagulants, the tick’s saliva also contains a special protein secretion that hardens around the embedded proboscis. This provides additional reliability when secured in the skin - a kind of “cement case”.

Lifestyle and habitats

Ixodid ticks are generally very slow - each individual travels no more than a couple of tens of meters in its entire life.

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Distribution of ixodids

Ixodid ticks are ubiquitous and are found on all continents of the globe. But, as with any organisms, they have their own limiting factors. First of all, there is a need for optimal temperature and humidity. Even in the same forest, different microclimates prevail in different parts of it. Meadows exposed to sunlight may not have enough moisture for ticks to thrive. And, for example, at the edge or in the thicket of a forest there may be plenty of water. Therefore, the distribution of ixodids in any geographical area is discontinuous and mosaic.

The presence of suitable hosts is also important, but ixodids are highly flexible and therefore can often survive almost anywhere that land vertebrates live.

Altitude is also not a serious limitation for ticks: they are found in all altitude zones - from sea level to high mountains. For example, Ixodes acutitarsus is often found in the Himalayas above forest level.

However, the greatest diversity of ixodid ticks is observed in subtropical and tropical latitudes. The further you move away from them, the fewer species of ixodids you can find.

One of the most famous ticks - taiga - has a distribution within the boundaries of its range, limited by Kamchatka and Sakhalin from the north, and the Moscow region from the south. Its relative the dog tick is found in North Africa and throughout Europe, reaching the Volga itself. The brown dog tick, as already mentioned, prefers coastal areas, including the Crimea and the Caucasus. It is these species that pose the greatest epidemiological danger to residents of Russia and European countries.

Hosts of different types of ixodid ticks

There are also two-host ticks - this means that the larva, having sucked blood, does not leave its first host. Having turned into a nymph, she bites him again, and only after that falls away from the first victim. The third time an adult tick will bite another animal.

Interesting fact

The duration of tick feeding increases with each subsequent stage of development. Larvae can attach to their hosts for 3-5 days, nymphs for 3-8 days, and adults are saturated with blood for up to 10-12 days. At the same time, the effect of ticks on an animal depends on many factors: the susceptibility of the host, its weight and the general degree of infestation.

Often, severe tick infestation leads to massive mortality of livestock. For example, 3-4 female ticks per 1 kg of body in an ordinary sheep is already a threat of rapid death.

If there are too many ticks on an animal, this leads to large blood losses and acute intoxication with saliva. Ixodid saliva contains many proteins that can cause severe immunological reactions. In addition, tissue damage in the bite area can result in suppuration and additional infection, not to mention diseases that can be transmitted by the ticks themselves.

Nutrition specifics

Before starting to suck blood, the tick usually searches for a long time suitable place on the owner's body. He will definitely prefer an area with delicate thin skin, so ticks are often found on the neck, behind the ears, in the groin area, and on the bends of the limbs.

If the tick is infected with any infection, then already at this moment the pathogens will begin to penetrate the host tissues.

In addition, saliva contains vasodilators and components that prevent blood clotting (anticoagulants). All this is necessary to ensure successful long-term feeding of the tick.

Note

Ixodids have several surprising biological features that are characteristic only of some representatives. One of them, aphagia, is a phenomenon in which adult males of certain species do not feed at all, but only engage in fertilization of engorged females, after which they immediately die.

Other interesting phenomenon, characteristic only of ticks, is omovampirism, in which hungry ticks (usually males) do not hesitate to attack their well-fed relatives. They pierce the body of their fellow and suck some of the blood from it. What is noteworthy is that the victim tick remains alive after such an unceremonious intervention in its metabolic processes, and if it is a female, then she is quite capable of safely laying eggs after this.

Reproduction and development

It is not easy to give a general characteristic for all ixodids in terms of reproduction and development. They are characterized by a huge variety of life cycles in terms of total duration and seasonal activity of hungry individuals. All three active stages can develop in one warm season, sometimes even several generations are formed during this time. In other cases, the transition from egg to larva, nymph, and then adult takes quite a long time, and the cycle extends for up to five years.

The total duration of blood sucking on the host during the entire life of the ixodid tick reaches a total of about 15 days, which is an extremely small fraction of the total duration of ontogenesis. But during this time, serious qualitative changes occur in the tick’s body, associated not only with the stretching of the body’s integument during feeding, but also with the development of its body as a whole. Due to this, after saturation, the larva becomes a nymph, and that, in turn, becomes an adult.

As already mentioned, at different stages of development, ticks attack animals different sizes. If in the first two stages the victims of most ixodids are small rodents, reptiles and birds, then adults already prefer large animals, including ungulates and humans.

The reproduction of ixodid ticks is also not without interesting details. The search for a partner and the mating itself most often takes place directly on the owner. This is explained by the fact that searching for each other in nature is extremely difficult due to their solitary lifestyle, wide habitat and low mobility.

In addition, individuals of some species are generally incapable of mating without being engorged with blood. That's why perfect place for a “date” - just at mealtime. On the 3-5th day of blood sucking, adult female ixodids begin to secrete special compounds - pheromones, which attract males.

Mating occurs directly while the female is feeding, which she does not interrupt for several days after insemination. The male either dies immediately after mating, or he can consume another portion of blood and go looking for a new female.

By the way, the nutrition of ticks differs depending on gender. In general, all ixodids are characterized by much shorter suction of males to the owner compared to females - they only need a couple of hours to get enough. And the body of males itself is not adapted for large volumes of blood - it is surrounded on all sides by rigid, inextensible shields.

After the fertilized female is saturated with a sufficient amount of blood, she falls away from the owner and prepares for the process of laying eggs. Their maturation takes from several days to a month, and occurs thanks to nutrients, obtained from the blood of the last victim.

The oviposition process itself is also long - from three weeks to two months. At the same time, a female dog tick will lay an average of 2000-3000 thousand eggs, but more exotic individuals tropical species- up to 20 thousand eggs, and sometimes even 30 thousand or more.

Ixodid ticks are dangerous, first of all, as carriers of many infectious diseases, and therefore have important medical significance. In terms of the variety of infections they carry, they are ahead of all arthropods, including mosquitoes.

About 100 viruses, 200 species of piroplasmids, dozens of species of rickettsia, trypanosomes and bacteria were isolated from ticks collected in nature. But still, infection with certain infections is not the norm for ixodids - ticks become infected with them either when feeding on a sick animal, or while still in the egg from an infected mother.

With rare exceptions, the reproducing pathogen does not cause any harm to the tick, unlike its possible host.

The photo below shows erythema migrans - characteristic feature Lyme disease:

It is important to note that even uninfected ticks, if there are a large number of them on one host, cause enormous harm to it. Wounds from penetration of ixodid proboscis can additionally become infected with pathogens from the surface of the skin or from the air. Such damage can then fester and not heal for a long time, causing severe discomfort. With an impressive number of attached ticks, the owner also begins to suffer from blood loss. This poses a risk of developing anemia that is incompatible with life.

Methods of protection against ixodid ticks and combating them

There are several effective ways protect yourself from ixodid tick bites in nature. The simplest thing you can do is to dress appropriately when going into a potentially dangerous area. Shirts with a high collar and long sleeves with tight-fitting cuffs, long trousers and, if possible, closed high shoes are suitable for this.

It is advisable to tuck your trousers into your socks and your shirt into your trousers. It is also good to use smooth and light-colored fabrics in clothing, which are more difficult for ticks to cling to and on which dark ticks are clearly visible.

Active control measures include spraying clothing and animal fur with repellents containing diethyltoluamide (DEET), dimethyl phthalate, repudin, diethyl phthalate, carboxyl, repethal and others. For animals, there are also tablets and injections that provide resistance to tick bites for a certain period of time.

Among folk remedies Self-prepared protective sprays are popular. They are made from natural essential oils, vinegar or ointments with strong odors, mixing them with water. Perhaps they have some effect, but a person needs to be prepared to endure the annoying smell of the product, which is not suitable for everyone. In any case, according to strength protective action Such drugs are mostly inferior to products based on powerful synthetic repellents.

It is important not to try to pull out the tick with a simple tearing movement - in this case, you can tear off its body from the head, which will remain in the skin and lead to suppuration.

In regions where cases of tick-borne encephalitis have been repeatedly reported, there is a well-functioning system for preventing this disease. It includes both vaccinations and emergency care immediately after being bitten by an infected tick.

If desired, you can undergo a course of vaccination consisting of several vaccinations, following one after another in a strict time sequence. This course provides reliable protection from the disease, but vaccination must be repeated periodically, because immunity to encephalitis after it lasts only about a year.

If a tick infected with the tick-borne encephalitis virus has already bitten, and the person has not been vaccinated before, then an emergency injection of anti-encephalitis gamma globulin will be effective within the first three to four days. This protein specifically binds to the pathogen and prevents the disease from developing.

It may be advisable to treat garden plots to kill ticks on them. To combat ixodids, special acaricides are used - in large areas they are sprayed using aircraft, in small areas - with hand and motor sprayers.

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Previously, long-acting preparations such as DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and HCH (hexachlorocyclohexane) were widely used as land treatment agents. They showed high efficiency in killing ticks, but also turned out to be dangerous for environment and the people themselves.

Today, to get rid of ticks in the territories of sanatoriums, recreation centers and children's camps, more safe drugs: karbofos, trichlorvos, chlorpyrifos, fenthion, permethrin, cypermethrin and others. It is preferable to poison ticks by professional exterminators - they have access to modern effective drugs and know how to use them correctly.

Their natural enemies in nature also help maintain control over the number of ticks. Here, ixodids are often fed by predators, the diversity of which is quite large: spiders, beetles, ants, wasps, centipedes. They are also eaten by amphibians, reptiles and birds, and the latter can even eat wintering ticks in their hiding places. That is why it is useful not only to treat the area with acaricides, but also to make it attractive to natural enemies of ticks.

Interesting video: interesting facts about ixodid ticks...

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Despite popular belief, ticks are not insects; in fact, they are animals belonging to the class “arachnids”. Spiders and scorpions are considered their close relatives. Ticks are characterized by a stationary lifestyle; very often they move no more than 10 m.

Types of ticks

Modern science knows more than 50,000 subspecies of ticks, but most of them are not of interest to us in this article.

We will consider only dangerous types of ticks for humans or domestic animals that are found in our latitudes. Below are descriptions of the types of ticks you may encounter.

In our region, this tick is one of the most common and poses a serious danger to people and animals, as it is a carrier of encephalitis infection. By the way, this is not a separate breed or subspecies of ticks; the carrier of the disease can be different representatives subspecies of Ixodidae.

Encephalitis is very dangerous disease, which can lead to death if measures are not taken in time. Unfortunately, one cannot determine by “appearance” whether he is infected or not. Therefore, you should always be aware of the potential danger and do everything possible.

The Ixodid tick is also often called the hard tick. This name arose because of the special shell that covers its body. This tick can carry encephalitis infection; dog and taiga ticks are the most common representatives of this subspecies.

Peculiarities:

• Mite size: can reach 25mm.
• It begins to activate at a temperature of about 3-5 degrees Celsius.
• It has a characteristic chitinous shell.

Ixodid ticks are also called forest ticks, which indicates their habitat. They love shady, damp areas, so when going for a walk in the forest, especially in the spring, do not forget about precautions.

This breed of mite is the causative agent of scabies. Previously, there were two versions of how such a tick changes its owner:

• He can move from one victim to another.
• Moves through household objects.

But scientists have found that ticks actually do this only in the first way.

Scabies mites can use not only humans, but also pets or livestock as hosts. If such a mite attacks a person, then the manifestations of scabies may be less pronounced and not so painful.

Peculiarities:

• The female tick usually reaches no more than 0.5 mm in length.
• To transmit a tick from one host to another, sufficiently prolonged physical contact is required. Usually a fertilized female moves to a new victim; for this migration she needs about half an hour, during which she manages to make a hole in the skin of the new host and gain a foothold there.
• These ticks feed on lysate, a substance that is formed when their saliva interacts with the host’s skin secretions.

As the name suggests, this type Ticks live in places very close to humans. It is attracted to accumulations of dust and fluff, so most often it can be found in bed, but it is also found in public places: cafes, hairdressers, hotels, theaters.

These ticks do not bite humans or use them as hosts. They feed on exfoliated epidermis. Although at first glance they seem less dangerous, this is not the case. The life span of such a tick reaches 4 months, during which time it manages to excrete a huge amount of excrement, approximately 200 times its own weight. It is excrement that causes irritation and itching on the skin of people who come into contact with surfaces affected by dust mites. In fact, this is an allergic reaction and not the result of a bite.

The bed tick also leaves abundant offspring; the female gives birth to up to 300 new individuals.

Ear mite

Ear mites do not pose a great danger to humans since their main victims are pets. Such mites start in different ways: An animal can pick it up on the street, or you can bring it into the house by petting someone else's animal.

These mites feed on earwax and sebum. The entire life cycle lasts no more than 2 months.

What is the danger of this tick? Ixodid ticks, which can carry encephalitis, are sometimes mistaken for ear ticks, which is why they are not accepted by everyone necessary measures precautions. Therefore, it is very important to learn to distinguish between these two breeds, or better yet, contact a specialist.

Another subspecies of mites that does not pose a danger to humans, but can seriously harm plants. It, as a rule, is fixed in the lower part of the plant, begins to suck the juice from it and entwine it with cobwebs. As a result, such a plant literally dries out and can also become infected with gray rot.

The life cycle of such a tick ranges from a week to a month.

We hope that photos and names of tick varieties will help you navigate their diversity and learn to distinguish them.

How dangerous are ticks to humans?

The greatest danger to humans are ixodid ticks, which can be carriers of encephalitis and many other very dangerous diseases, including: Lyme disease, typhus. Each subspecies of these animals has its own characteristics of existence, but usually proximity to them does not bring anything good. Therefore, it is very important when ticks are detected to immediately begin taking action to neutralize them.

We looked at the most common types of insect mites and found out what their danger is. It is very important to understand this when you encounter them in order to take adequate measures.