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Hi Jim & Andrew, May 28, 2008
Thanks for the advice. I took them in to Natural Resources and was
assured that all were American Dog Tick. There turned out to be a third.
After having searched myself twice last evening I found one on my leg
this morning.
A while back someone got upset by a fly in their bottled water. I
wonder what the reaction to a cupfull of ticks in a sleeping bag would be ?
While cutting westward down the bank to Brooklyn St., from the west
side of the Hospital heliopad, I noticed a dozen or so Antlion cones, on
the highway cut just under a lip of overhanging root/sod.
Yt, DW, Kentville
Andrew Hebda wrote:
>Here is a listing of Tick species we have confirmed in Nova Scotia (14 species). There are a couple of exotics (probably brought in by travelers) that have not become established.
>
>
>Ticks found in Nova Scotia
>based on Collection Records of the NSMNH
>(* denotes collected from a visitor/traveler - not considered indigenous)
>
> Amblyomma americanum * Lone Star tick
> Dermacentor albipictus Moose or winter tick
> Dermacentor variabilis Wood or American Dog tick
> Haemophysalis leporis-palustris Gregarious Rabbit tick
> Ixodes angustus Squirrel tick
> Ixodes baergi Bird tick, Swallow tick
> Ixodes banksi Beaver tick
> Ixodes brunneus* Hard-bodied bird tick
> Ixodes cookei Groundhog tick
> Ixodes dentatus Rabbit tick
> Ixodes gregsoni Weasel tick
> Ixodes marxi Squirrel tick
> Ixodes muris Mouse Tick
> Ixodes pacificus* Western Black-legged Tick
> Ixodes sculptus Weasel Tick
> Ixodes scapularis (a.k.a. I.dammini) Deer tick, Black-legged tick
> Ixodes uriae Murre Tick
> Rhipicephalus sanguineus * Brown Dog Tick
>
>
>prepared by A Hebda 02 June 2006
>
>As Jim said - bring your ticks with collection data (who, where, when, etc) either to the nearest office of NSDNR or to the NS Museum Nat Hist.
>
>Cheers
>
>Andrew
>A. Hebda
>Nova Scotia Museum
>
>
>>>>"James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> 5/28/2008 12:50 pm >>>
>>>>
>Dave, if your second, smaller tick is different from a dog/wood tick,
>it should be turned in to DNR or the N.S. Museum of Nat. Hist.
>
>For everyone else, please remember that unidentified ticks should be
>turned in if possible. Put them in a small pill bottle with a bit of
>moist paper towel, or just Scotch-tape them to a piece of paper.
>
>There are at least 10 kinds of ticks in Nova Scotia, and the
>authorities are still interested in the distribution and abundance
>particularly of the black-legged or deer tick which carries the
>bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
>
>Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
>>Date: May 27, 2008 7:23:00 PM ADT
>>To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca
>>Subject: [NatureNS] Buprestid, Goldthread & ticks
>>Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>>
>>Dear All, May 27, 2008
>> Today at North Alton a patch of Goldthread (Coptis trifolia),
>>that has developed on a slate section of road that I leveled in
>>1984, was in full bloom today. Large toothed aspen (Populus
>>grandidentata) buds were just barely showing leaves. In an open
>>grassy roadway, a small Buprestid (Anthaxia inornata (Randall)) was
>>locally common on Dandelion flowers and usually mating.
>>
>> When I got home I found a tick of the usual size and mottled
>>coloration on my back and an hour or so after having decided there
>>was only one I found a second but smaller (~2-mm wide) and dark.
>>Yt, DW, Kentville
>>
>
>
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