Talking Of Ticks

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1938, Page 2

Talking Of Ticks

Ivy Jenkins, of Matapouri, a keen calf club member, noticed three different kinds of ticks on. one of her father’s cows.

■ She writes: “One is a little wee brown one; one the ordinary big black one and the third is a hard bluoy-grey one about half the size of the ordinary big one. Gould you please let me know ia the “Young Northlander,” what kind of tick the third one is?” The three ticks described are really different stages of the same species. Tick eggs are deposited on the ground and later hatch out, giving rise to “seed ticks,” which climb onto coarse grass, brushwood, etc., and from there become attached ,to animals as opportunity offers. These seed ticks undergo moults or changes and later become nymphs, gradually growing into adult ticks.