Ticks

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Ticks, are small arachnids. Ticks required blood meals to complete their complex includes eggs,larva, nymph and adult male and female ticks. The larvae,nymph and adult all need blood meals.The female adult (hard tick)is the one causing the most bites as males usually die after mating.Ticks do not jump or fly. They simply reach out with their legs or crow onto a host. Although some larvae have preferred host, most ticks in the nymph or adult will attach a get a blood meal from several different kinds of animal, including human, except a few specific of larva ticks (larva, nymphs). The hard ticks tend to attach and feed for hours to days. Soft ticks usually feed for less than one hour.The bite of some of these soft ticks produces intensely painful reactions. There are many common names for various ticks also almost any ticks that has had a blood meal. Tick sometimes also found in gardens especially those with deep vegetation and strong wildlife population. Tick can pass on the disease their feed on the blood of other animals. They cannot jump or fly, but when ready for a meal will a climb or nearby piece of vegetation and wait a passing animal or human to catch their hooked front legs. The ticks will not necessarily bite immediately, but with often spend some time finding suitable site on the skin. The bite is usually painless and most people will know they have bitten if they happen to see a feeding tick attached to them. The disease carry ticks lyme borreliosis, babesiosis and ehrlichiosis , some ticks carry more than one disease at the same time and can transfer them to you in the single bite. The resulting symptoms can be extremely confusing and liable to misdiagnosis. Treatment this cases be difficult. The ticks generally bites human (the nymph stage).