. The cattle tick : this pest can be destroyed. Cattle tick; Babesiosis in cattle. THE CATTLE TICK CAN BE DESTROYED TheFe. and Its Eggs One tick is capable of lay- ing 4,000 eggs. The period of depositing eggs lasts about one week. The eggs hatch in about three weeks in summer; in fall and winter they lay dormant. Each egg is capable of furnishing one seed tick When fully engorged she drops to the ground, and at once, espe- cially if the weather is warm, begins to search for a hiding place on moist earth beneath leaves or any other litter which may serve as a protection from the sun and numero
. The cattle tick : this pest can be destroyed. Cattle tick; Babesiosis in cattle. THE CATTLE TICK CAN BE DESTROYED TheFe. and Its Eggs One tick is capable of lay- ing 4,000 eggs. The period of depositing eggs lasts about one week. The eggs hatch in about three weeks in summer; in fall and winter they lay dormant. Each egg is capable of furnishing one seed tick When fully engorged she drops to the ground, and at once, espe- cially if the weather is warm, begins to search for a hiding place on moist earth beneath leaves or any other litter which may serve as a protection from the sun and numerous enemies. - â¢'«*- The female tick may be devoured by birds or destroyed by ants, or may perish as the result of unfavorable conditions, such as low temperature, absence or excess of moisture, and many other conditions: so that many which fall to the ground are destroyed before they lay eggs. Egg laying begins during the spring, summer, and fall months in from two to twenty days, and during the winter months in thirteen to ninety- eight days. The eggs are small, elliptical-shaped bodies, at first of a light amber color, later changing to a dark brown, and are about one- fiftieth of an inch in length. As the eggs are laid they are coated with a sticky secretion which causes them to adhere in clusters and, no doubt, serves the purpose of keeping them from drying out. During eg^ laying the mother tick gradu- ally shrinks in size and finally is reduced to about one-third or one-fourth her original size. Egg laying is greatly influenced by temperature, being retarded or even arrested by low temperatures. It is completed in from four days in the summer to one hundred and fifty-one days, beginning in the fall. During this time the tick may deposit from a few hundred to more than 5,000 eggs. After egg laying is completed the mother tick has fulfilled her purpose and dies in the course of a few days. After a time, ranging from nineteen days in the summer to one hundred and eightj
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