Castor Bean Tick Consumes up to 5 mL of host blood Host: livestock particularly sheep Feeding activity most pronounced in April-May

Hedgehog Tick Scutum broadly hexagonal Host: European hedgehog, dogs and cats

Black-legged Tick Dark-brown coloration Host: cattle, sheep, horses, dogs, cats, birds, and reptiles

Australian Paralysis Tick Yellow coloration Host: rodents, dogs, man Anal groove is V-shaped

Brown Dog Tick Most widely distributed tick species in the world Host: dogs Often found in ears and between toes

Brown Ear Tick Host: cattle, equine, sheep, goat Attaches most frequently under the tail and in the ears

Red-legged Tick Larval and nymphal stage engorge on the same host

Cattle Fever Tick Host: horses, sheep, goats, deer Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis

Tropical Cattle Tick Host: cattle, horses, goats, donkeys, sheep, dog, pig Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis

American Dog Tick 3-host tick

Rocky Mountain Wood Tick 3-host tick 0.5-2 mL

Winter Tick Host: elk, moose, horses, cattle, antelopes, deer 1-host tick

Babesia (cattle)

Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus and Siberian tick typhus

Bovine piroplasmosis

Babesia major (cattle) and B. motasi (sheep) B. bigemina (cattle), A. marginale and A. centrale

Francisella tularensis

Game birds and poultr

B. canis

Tortoises

Sweating sickness

Aegyptianella pullorum Borrelia anserina

Pigeon Tick Fowl Spirochaetosis Paralysis

African Tampan Borrelia duttoni Disease African Swine Fever Borrelia recurrentis

Spinose Ear Tick No distinct lateral suture Vestigial hypostome Adult: granulated integument 1-host tick