[NatureNS] re your ticks, was Buprestid, Goldthread &

Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:19:32 -0300
From: "Andrew Hebda" <HEBDAAJ@gov.ns.ca>
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Here is a listing of Tick species we have confirmed in Nova Scotia (14 species).  There are a couple of exotics (probably brought in by travelers) that have not become established.  


Ticks found in Nova Scotia 
based on Collection Records of the NSMNH
(* denotes collected from a visitor/traveler - not considered indigenous)

	Amblyomma americanum *			 Lone Star tick
	Dermacentor albipictus			 Moose or winter  tick
	Dermacentor variabilis			 Wood  or American Dog tick
	Haemophysalis  leporis-palustris		 Gregarious Rabbit tick
	Ixodes  angustus				 Squirrel tick			
	Ixodes  baergi				 Bird tick, Swallow tick
	Ixodes banksi                                       	                 Beaver tick
	Ixodes brunneus*				 Hard-bodied bird tick
	Ixodes  cookei				 Groundhog tick
	Ixodes  dentatus				 Rabbit tick
	Ixodes  gregsoni				 Weasel tick
	Ixodes  marxi				 Squirrel tick
	Ixodes  muris				 Mouse Tick
	Ixodes pacificus*				 Western Black-legged Tick
	Ixodes  sculptus				 Weasel Tick
	Ixodes  scapularis (a.k.a. I.dammini)	                 Deer tick, Black-legged tick
	Ixodes  uriae				 Murre Tick
	Rhipicephalus sanguineus *			 Brown Dog Tick
	

prepared by A Hebda 02 June 2006

As Jim said - bring your ticks with collection data (who, where, when, etc) either to the nearest office of NSDNR or to the NS Museum Nat Hist.

Cheers

Andrew
A. Hebda
Nova Scotia Museum


>>> "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> 5/28/2008 12:50 pm >>>
Dave, if your second, smaller tick is different from a dog/wood tick,  
it should be turned in to DNR or the N.S. Museum of Nat. Hist.

For everyone else, please remember that unidentified ticks should be  
turned in if possible.  Put them in a small pill bottle with a bit of  
moist paper towel,  or just Scotch-tape them to a piece of paper.

There are at least 10 kinds of ticks in Nova Scotia, and the  
authorities are still interested in the distribution and abundance  
particularly of the black-legged or deer tick which carries the  
bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

Begin forwarded message:

> From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
> Date: May 27, 2008 7:23:00 PM ADT
> To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca 
> Subject: [NatureNS] Buprestid,  Goldthread & ticks
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca 
>
> Dear All,            May 27, 2008
>    Today at North Alton a patch of Goldthread (Coptis trifolia),  
> that has developed on a slate section of road that I leveled in  
> 1984, was in full bloom today. Large toothed aspen (Populus  
> grandidentata) buds were just barely showing leaves. In an open  
> grassy roadway, a small Buprestid (Anthaxia inornata (Randall)) was  
> locally common on Dandelion flowers and usually mating.
>
>    When I got home I found a tick of the usual size and mottled  
> coloration on my back and an hour or so after having decided there  
> was only one I found a second but smaller (~2-mm wide) and dark.
> Yt, DW, Kentville
>


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