Show us your ticks: a survey of ticks infesting dogs and cats across the USA

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Ticks collected from domestic dogs in the USA by species, stage and month of collection

Species	Stage	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rhipicephalus sanguineus	F	486	14	0	13	23	24	65	209	96	17	13	11	1
	M	617	45	0	27	30	29	65	227	160	12	20	2	0
	N	1120	0	0	0	1	0	40	1016	30	32	1	0	0
	L	4029	0	0	0	0	0	5	4005	19	0	0	0	0
Amblyomma americanum	F	514	0	0	12	54	163	172	35	69	8	0	0	1
	M	292	4	0	14	50	90	102	17	11	4	0	0	0
	N	363	0	0	2	12	44	129	47	75	53	1	0	0
	L	762	4	0	0	0	1	0	242	84	418	13	0	0
Dermacentor variabilis	F	631	0	0	0	21	198	172	142	46	45	4	3	0
	M	392	0	0	0	25	128	105	74	20	36	3	1	0
	N	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ixodes scapularis	F	489	37	6	8	34	34	14	5	0	4	158	151	38
	M	84	6	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	37	21	11
	N	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	F	128	7	13	6	2	4	6	17	31	21	5	12	4
	M	118	2	1	0	4	3	11	19	41	29	5	3	0
	N	53	0	0	26	0	1	0	1	10	3	11	0	1
	L	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Total		10,087	119	23	110	257	721	888	6057	697	683	272	204	56

Note: Other submitted ticks included A. maculatum, I. pacificus, O. megnini, I. affinis, I. cookei, I. angustus, Ixodes sp., H. longicornis, D. albipictus and D. andersoni
Abbreviations: F, female; M, male; N, nymph; L, larva

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