Equine attachment site preferences and seasonality of common North American ticks: Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor albipictus, and Ixodes scapularis

Table 1 Ticks collected from horses in northeastern Oklahoma by species, stage, and month of collection

Species	Stage	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Amblyomma americanum	F	794	0	0	34	186	255	190	81	45	1	0	2	0
	M	906	0	2	31	289	304	198	56	24	0	2	0	0
	N	266	0	0	1	20	68	57	5	41	73	1	0	0
	L	170	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	154	9	2	2	0
Dermacentor albipictus	F	52	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	28
	M	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4
	N	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	3
	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ixodes scapularis	F	371	14	4	21	9	3	0	0	0	0	69	226	25
	M	126	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	97	7
	N	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^a	F	16	0	0	0	1	3	9	2	1	0	0	0	0
	M	10	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	1	0	0	0	0
	N	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		2731	23	8	91	507	638	459	146	266	83	90	353	67

ISSN: 1756-3305