tick elk (Lipoptena cervi) - folksy name deer louse.Females and males feed mainly on the blood of cloven-hoofed animals of the deer family.In rare cases, a parasite on foxes, wild boar, cattle, dogs, birds and others. The true mites has nothing to do.People are attacked only in the case when the population size is much greater than usual amount.The cycle of development for the person is not complete.Scope of large, including Siberia and Scandinavia.
Dimensions adult was about 3.5 mm.Intercession brownish color, thick, leathery, shiny different moose tick.Photography, presented in the article demonstrated strong flattening of the body and head.It has 8 holes, 2 of which are very large, complex, and 3 pairs of primes.Antennae, located deep in the frontal cavities, almost beyond the head.Mouthparts for piercing and working sucking type.Legs with thick thighs and asymmetrical claws.Wings of advanced, compact, transparent, with veins.The abdomen is elastic, the oviduct can greatly increase with "pregnancy."
Different tick elk live birth.The female lays prepupal of up to 4 mm.It hardens, turning the stage puparium, falls to the ground and waiting for the right weather conditions to turn into a chrysalis.Birth of the following occurs after a decent period of time required for the maturation of her in the oviduct of the female, t. To. They come one by one.Going chrysalis in winged form from the end of the summer until October.
tick Elk flies matter.Swag traps sitting on the grass, trees or shrubs.Attacks only in the afternoon.Draws their smell and warmth of the future owner.Once on it, the insect resets wings broken off at the base of them, digs into the hair and starts the meal.Eating moose tick can up to 20 times per day, a total of sucking the blood of about 2 mg.
After 20 days of supply metamorphosis: veils darken, retracted head, die muscle wings manifested sexual difference, begin mating.One host can live up to 1,000 parasites.They live in pairs, males cling tightly to females.The birth of the first puparium occurs 17 days after copulation, it turns out that the winged individuals need a month to start to produce their own kind.A female with a good diet can give birth to up to 30 prepupae, from October to March.Tick beskrylnoy elk in the form of active all winter, t. E. For about six months, and then he dies.
When a large number of animal parasites is concerned, the loss of blood leads to depletion.On the site of the bite formed redness, papules.Their greatest accumulation happens along the back and on the neck, t. E. In areas where hair is longer.Pollution excrement increases skin inflammation.Moose tick is a carrier of many diseases.Studies have shown that more than a quarter of winged deer keds had spirochetes.
People on moose tick bites react differently.Some have formed itchy redness, like a mosquito, which take place throughout the week.Others, with reduced immunity, are formed blisters, crusts, until the eczema, the treatment of which can take months.
