Why are ticks important?<\/strong> Where do ticks live?<\/strong> Reproductive Capacity:<\/strong> What do ticks look like?<\/strong> Why are ticks important? Ticks have been know to carry Lyme disease. The tick is a parasite that feed on the blood of animals. The most troublesome ticks in Florida are the Brown dog tick and the American dog tick. The Brown dog tick are not too fond of human blood and rarely do they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-safecarepest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTicks have been know to carry Lyme disease. The tick is a parasite that feed on the blood of animals. The most
\ntroublesome ticks in Florida are the Brown dog tick and the American dog tick. The Brown dog tick are not too fond
\nof human blood and rarely do they bite humans. They however infest homes when they are brought in by dogs. The
\nAmerican dog tick attack humans and dogs but will not infest homes . They get into the home by attaching to the
\nclothes. The Brown dog ticks can transmit Lyme Disease which was detected in at least 43 states in the USA<\/p>\n
\nTicks lay their eggs in cracks on the roof of kennels, or on ceiling of buildings. In homes they lay their eggs on
\ncurtains, furniture. They can also be found outside in the soil.<\/p>\n
\nThe American Dog tick lays from 4,000 to 6,500 eggs before dying while the Brown dog tick lays 1000\u20103000 eggs.
\nThe eggs will hatch in 36\u201057 days and 19\u201060 days in each case respectively. The life cycle of the American dog tick
\nrequire 3 month to 3\u2010years. The Brown Dog tick can survive for up 200 days without a blood meal.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe American Dog Tick can reach up to 1\/3 in length and vary from Blushes to reddish\u2010brown in color, with eight
\nlegs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"