Price said the big part of them spread so quickly because they have a party. This means that women can play lush without the help of male ticks.
“So the meaning of this means that a single individual woman who lays about 2,000 to 2,500 eggs can make the entire population by the individual without mating.” This unique reproductive strategy is that this unique reproductive strategy is that long horn ticks can quickly invade the new areas of the state and nation. It is a reproductive strategy. ”
He added that migratory birds, including white tail deer and black night fry, can carry ticks on a vast distance and explain fast geographic spreads.
Potential threat to public health
One of the biggest questions that researchers ask about loneliness mites is how much threats they are for humans.
According to past research in Asia, long horn ticks can carry various pathogens that affect human health.
Philips said, “But in fact, it is not 100% clear when the pathogen is actually vector.” “So even if it has a bacteria or virus, if you ask you, it will give you it. It’s not 100% clear. So it’s part of what we tried to find out in the study.”
To investigate this question, Philips, along with Temple University ecosyte jocelyn behm and undergraduate Jackson Fahey, collected long conks in a lush area around the Philadelphia area to test the pathogen. result Good.
Philips said, “No one of the people we collected has a pathogen.” “So if you get a little bit around Philadelphia, I hope you will not get sick.”
These results have been found to match the test of other previous tests, and found that alien mites still do not yet have some of the most dangerous pathogens for humans.
But it is not the end of the story. Price said that some of his current studies have found several pathogens on human health problems in alien ticks collected in Pennsylvania Park and public use areas. Among the pathogens they discovered, there were bacteria that caused lime bottles, but the price showed that the disease control and the prevention center showed that alien mites are less likely to disappear during the model stage.
Nevertheless, PRICE said that the mite is so new that the role is very uncertain in terms of disease before the disease.
But past studies have found that outpatient ticks can spread some pathogens that can be found in Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania. Rocky Mountain erythema and Powassan virusRare but serious disease that can cause encephalitis and meningitis.
“With Borelia BurgDorferi, a bacterial formulation that is usually responsible for lime bottles, ticks must be attached to a person who bite the bacteria for 36 hours.” This is because the virus is maintained in the mouth and salivary glands compared to bacteria. ”
PRICE added that the study of Phillips showed that habitats overlapped between alien mites and local ticks.
Long cone mites are also more aggressive in pursuing hosts and are more likely to remove flocks than other ticks, and they are more likely to be found in areas where local ticks are not found, such as lawns that are commonly refined. They have also been found to affect livestock like dogs and can cause serious threats to livestock like cows.
Luckily, Long Chozon Mites can be protected by using the same method as recommended for local ticks, such as not covering the skin and the use of slope approved by the US Environmental Protection Bureau, such as Permethrin.
