When training camps, the biggest problem remains the issue of protection against ticks. This is due to the fact that their bites can lead to irreversible changes in the human body, provoking disability or, even worse, leading to death.
Of course, in the event that you spend most of the time in nature, it is most effective to use special chemicals to combat ticks in the area, processing along the entire perimeter. It is noteworthy that today they have become much safer for both humans and animals. Most often, you can find substances in the form of liquids and granules. It must be remembered that if you are not sure that you can qualitatively perform the processing of the site, it is better to entrust this procedure to professionals.
Tick attack usually begins in mid-spring and continues until the onset of the first cold weather. The beginning and end of the tick activity period is very variable even within the same geographical point, however, they are most active from the end of May to June and from the end of August to October.
Basic data
They become most active in hot weather. In the spring, when the air has not yet completely warmed up, these insects are more lazy, and they may not even bite when they get on clothes. By the fall, they become the most aggressive and stick at once.
- Encephalitis tick - the habitat of individuals that are carriers of this disease, mostly wet. Most often they can be found in moist deciduous forests and marshy areas. Almost any tick that feeds on the blood of people or animals can be an encephalitis carrier. It is fixed on an open area of the skin in such a way that it is not so easy to notice. In addition to encephalitis, they carry a number of infectious diseases that are difficult to treat.
- The main habitats of ticks are dense deciduous forests, grass and shrubs. Ticks do not tolerate direct sunlight, so it is almost impossible to meet them in the open.
- Most often, the tick carries a bite in those places where a person can not visually detect it: in the neck, head or back. It is noteworthy that this bite is painless, as a result of which a person may not even guess about it in order to take timely measures.
Tick-borne diseases
Ticks are one of the largest groups of arthropods on the planet. Most often, they prefer to eat young vegetation. In the world there are a large number of different types of ticks, most of which are still poorly understood.
Some species have adapted to parasitize both animals and humans, eating exclusively blood. The habitat of ticks (Ixodoidea) includes all continents, up to Antarctica. They carry many pathogens, creating natural foci of infections. It is noteworthy that the most common of them carries an encephalitis tick. Its habitat is ubiquitous, since any tick, regardless of species, can be an encephalitis carrier. Despite this, the main carriers of the disease remain the taiga tick and Ixodes ricinus (living only in the European part of Eurasia).
Tick: habitat and lifestyle
Ticks usually live in clusters of dry branches and plant debris, where they arrange their nests. During the attack, they rise to a height, preferring the tops of grasses and bushes, where, having strengthened with hind limbs and stretching their front ones forward, they are waiting for a suitable source of food. With their front paws, they are fixed to the clothes, and then rise along it until they find bare skin. Ticks prefer to hunt from a height of about 1 m, so that a person can not be afraid of an attack from the trees.
Bite Prevention
Since the tick habitat in nature includes mainly moist deciduous forests and roadside areas covered with grass, the best option to avoid an attack and not get infected from a bite is to prevent it.
For this:
- If you plan to be outdoors for a long time, you need to wear clothes that cover the body as much as possible.
- After returning home, be sure to inspect yourself and loved ones.
- If the tick was found, try to remove it without crushing.
- If the tick nevertheless dug into the skin, carefully remove it from the skin. The main thing to remember: you can not violate the integrity of his proboscis. After that, the wound is disinfected. If you are not sure that you can cope with the extraction of the tick without damaging its integrity, it is best to consult a specialist.
Territory Processing
The habitat area of ticks on the site includes all green spaces, the height of which does not exceed 1 m. That is why it is necessary to carefully treat the site with chemicals at least several times a year. This is due to the fact that the activity of ticks changes several times during the summer.
To date, the processing of the cottage area from ticks does not cause difficulties, it is enough to find a company engaged in the professional cleaning of sites from pests.
Ixodid ticks
All ticks included in the ixodidae group are parasites. Their size directly depends on the degree of saturation, on average they reach a length of several centimeters. This is directly related to the fact that the integument of the female’s body is highly tensile. In addition, they can eat extremely rarely (sometimes only once in a lifetime), but immediately consume large amounts of blood. With a massive attack of these ticks, a person may experience dizziness and develop anemia. It is noteworthy that the tick during its entire development changes several hosts, on each of which it feeds no more than once.
The habitat of ticks includes plants whose height does not exceed 1 m. In addition, they can lie in wait for a future food source on shrubs and grass growing along paths. During evolution, some species of mites have adapted to make active movements to find a constant source of food, which makes it necessary to examine their bodies and clothes for an attack.
Dog tick
A dog tick, whose habitat includes the whole territory of Eurasia, mixed and deciduous forests and bushes, actively supports the conservation of natural foci of various viral diseases among rodents, which are its main carriers to humans and domestic animals.
The body of the tick is covered with an elastic cuticle and resembles a regular oval in its shape. The color of males and females during fasting is yellow-brown. As the blood saturates, the female changes color to bright red, increasing in size to 12 mm.
Sucking to the owner, the tick feeds on its blood for several days. As a result of his bite, complex allergic reactions can occur on the human body. When a bite is infected, the body, trying to destroy the infection, can create purulent formations that, if not properly treated, can lead to serious consequences.
Taiga tick
The habitat of ticks (Ixodes persulcatus) includes the taiga zones of Eurasia, the Far Eastern territories, Central Europe and the European part of Russia. It is the main carrier of tick-borne encephalitis, as it most often attacks people.
It parasitizes almost all animals, due to which the circulation of the encephalitis virus is constantly maintained in nature, the main natural reservoir of which are small rodents and birds. Of domestic animals, taiga ticks most often attack goats, which is directly related to their behavior. Since they prefer to wade through shrubs in the process of feeding, the largest number of ticks gets on their hair.
Despite the fact that the goats themselves tolerate tick-borne encephalitis in a mild form, getting into the human body with milk, it progresses rapidly.
Spider mite
The spider mite, whose habitat is almost universal, prefers to eat both fruit and houseplants. In fact, this is a very small arachnid tick (body length - about 1 mm), feeding on plant sap. The main sign of its presence on plants is the presence of cobwebs under the leaves.
