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Trees as Habitats of the Fowl Tick, Argas persicus (Oken)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. Abdussalam  and
M. M. Sarwar
M. Abdussalam
Affiliation:
Punjab Veterinary College, Lahore, Pakistan.
M. M. Sarwar
Affiliation:
Punjab Veterinary College, Lahore, Pakistan.
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All stages of Argas persicus were found in crevices in the bark of 49 of 266 trees belonging to 16 species in West Pakistan. These trees had not been used as roosts by domestic birds. The infestation seemed to be restricted to those trees used by vultures (Pseudogyps bengalensis) or herons (Ardea cinerea) for nesting or roosting. Several of the ticks collected contained recently sucked avian blood in the gut but intramuscular injection of crushed material from the ticks into a hen produced no blood infection.

Infested trees may be important as sources of the pest near poultry farms and chicken houses.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 1953 , pp. 419 - 420
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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