How to get the last tick Observations resulting from active field experience in tick eradication . m from drying. In from 19days in summer to 6 months during the fall andwinter the eggs begin to hatch. The little brown,six-legged larvae, or seed ticks, crawl from the eggsand soon ascend near-by vegetation, thereby increas-ing their chances of reaching a host—which is abso-lutely essential to their further development. Assoon as opportunity is offered they attach themselvesto a passing or resting cow, or in exceptional casesto horses and mules. Failing to find a host, the seed HOW TO GET THE LA
How to get the last tick Observations resulting from active field experience in tick eradication . m from drying. In from 19days in summer to 6 months during the fall andwinter the eggs begin to hatch. The little brown,six-legged larvae, or seed ticks, crawl from the eggsand soon ascend near-by vegetation, thereby increas-ing their chances of reaching a host—which is abso-lutely essential to their further development. Assoon as opportunity is offered they attach themselvesto a passing or resting cow, or in exceptional casesto horses and mules. Failing to find a host, the seed HOW TO GET THE LAST TICK. tick will starve in from 2 to 8 months, depending onthe season of the year. The seed tick takes no foodand does not increase in size until reaching a must have the blood of cattle (or horses and mules)for its developnient. Soon after reaching a favorable host the seed tickattaches itself to the skin and begins to draw bloodat once, increasing in size. In a few days the youngtick changes from a brown color to white, and infrom 5 to 12 days it sheds its skin, or molts, acquir-. Fio. 2.—The little brown, six-legged larvae, or seed ticks, crawl from the eggs andsoon ascend near-by vegetation. ing a fourth pair of legs, and is then known as anymph. In from 5 to 11 days after the first molt the tickagain sheds its skin and becomes sexually male, measuring about one-tenth of an inch inlength, is now fully developed and is seen as a smaUbrown, oval tick of considerable activity. The fe-male at tHe time of this molting is slightly largerthan the male; she is not active, and seldom movesfrom her original point of attachment. After mat-ing, the female develops rapidly and has been knownto become fully engorged in 48 hours after the secondmolt, but usually from 4 days to a week are required. 8 HOW TO GET THE LAST TICK. The time that elapses between the attachment ofthe tick as a seed tick and its dropping from theanimal as a fully engorged female is generall
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