1. Fever Ticks Floron C. Faries, Jr., DVM, MS Professor and Extension Program Leader for Veterinary Medicine Texas AgriLife Extension Service Texas A&M System

2. One Host Ticks Cattle Horses White-tailed deer, elk, Nilgai, red deer Not sheep, goats, swine, dogs

3. Tick Stages – Eggs, Larvae, Nymphs, Adults

13. Permanent Fever Tick Quarantine Zone 200 yards to 6 miles wide 500 miles along Rio Grande Del Rio to Brownsville 8 counties Val Verde Kinney Maverick Webb Zapata Starr Hildalgo Cameron

14. Boophilus microplus 1986

15. Boophilus microplus 1994

16. Boophilus annulatus 1986

17. Boophilus annulatus 1994

18. Permanent Fever Tick Quarantine Zone (Red) Preventive Fever Tick Quarantine Area (Green) 2007

19. Temporary Preventive Fever Tick Quarantine Area 2007 Expanded portions of Starr and Zapata counties Small area of Jim Hogg county 2008 Expanded portions of Starr, Zapata, Webb and Maverick counties Small areas of Jim Hogg and Dimmit counties