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1 Bite symtoms?  





2 More details please  





3 ticks - at least some adult ticks - absolutely drop from trees.  
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4 Pest and diseases of crops and live stocks  
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Good articleTick has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassessit.
Article milestones
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January 15, 2017Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know

Afact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 28, 2017.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a tick finds a potential host by detecting its breath and body odors, or by sensing its vibrations or changes in temperature?

Bite symtoms?

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Some info on the symptoms of a bite would be useful in this article. Does it itch? Does it cause a rash, inflamation etc.?

See Lyme disease. Should be made a more important point in the article, as that article contains much more precise information on ticks than this article of US ticks. Generally, one would notice a tick after a full body search done right after a trip in the forest. They don't make much of themselves, as they are dependent on having time to find a good ore to suck on. If it has bitten you or your dog or your cat, remove it - either by grabbing it and rotating it before yanking it, or with a pair of tweezers. It is said that one must get out everything, but that is not a very big problem in the whole picture. My only bite has grown a hair, nothing else. Hopefully with my own genes. If you take out the tick within a day , the chance of catching something wicked is small. Check your bite up to a a couple of months after you have been bitten. The moment you feel a fever or have a red spot or several at the bite or somewhere entirely elsewhere, you must go see a doctor. Some who get bitten have a itch, some don't. For some any disease can be quick to discover and quick to cure, for some - neither. Some ticks have borreliosis, smoe don't. More precise numbers must be found, also for those ticks not US.

More details please

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The article needs information about how the tick's saliva acts as "cement" (there is a video on this) and how the mandibles curve back. There should be pictures of the mouthparts like the hypostome, and there should be clarification on how many mouthparts are actually inserted for feeding.

ticks - at least some adult ticks - absolutely drop from trees.

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I take issue with "A common misconception about ticks is they jump onto their host or they fall from trees, however, they are incapable of flying or jumping." Falling does not require jumping or flying and there is nothing to keep a tick from dropping. To the contrary, it makes no sense for them to climb down from perches, rather than simply drop. Also, they are well suited to parachute via extending all of their legs, or controlled dives via trailed back legs. Furthermore, my wife and I have found ticks on us many times after being no where near vegetation to brush against. >> some ticks do drop from trees.

Low spreading branches - such as beach trees have - seem to be preferred, for obvious reason. MongoPawn (talk) 03:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can’t change an article with an anecdote as a justification, but the passage you give is not cited and not logical, so I deleted the bit about falling from trees. Strebe (talk) 05:24, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pest and diseases of crops and live stocks

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Explain 197.211.59.13 (talk) 22:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain on the topic 197.211.59.13 (talk) 22:08, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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