mouthparts and an adhesive (cement) secreted in the saliva. TICKS & MITES / PARASITES LOCATION OF TICKS IN SKIN Ticks feed by creating a wound in the dermis into which blood flows. The ticks attach to skin with barbed mouthparts and an adhesive (cement) secreted in the saliva. dermis tick body palps blood pool cement epidermis capillaries (papillary loops)
Psoroptic mites (Psoroptes, Chorioptes, Otedectes etc) ON epidermis TICK, MITE PARASITES LOCATION OF MITES ON OR IN SKIN (1) Psoroptic mites (Psoroptes, Chorioptes, Otedectes etc) ON epidermis epidermis dermis Sarcoptic mites (Sarcoptes, Knemidocoptes, Notoedres) IN epidermis epidermis dermis
Demodectic mites (Demodex) TICK, MITE PARASITE LOCATION OF MITES ON OR IN SKIN (2) hair shaft epidermis dermis Demodectic mites (Demodex) External to epidermis, but within skin Dermanyssid & trombiculid mites (Dermanyssus, Trombicula) epidermis dermis External to epidermis, direct penetration to capillaries
egg larva nymph adult egg (almost entirely on host) TICKS, MITES PARASITES LIFE CYCLE OF PSOROPTES egg larva nymph adult egg (almost entirely on host) infested flock transported sheep uninfested flock fomites
larva only is parasitic nymph and adult predatory on insects TICK, MITE PARASITES LIFE CYCLE OF TROMBICULA egg larva nymph adult larva only is parasitic nymph and adult predatory on insects
egg larva Ist nymph 2nd nymph adult TICK, MITE PARASITES LIFE CYCLE OF DERMANYSSUS egg larva Ist nymph 2nd nymph adult all stages feed on birds