Ticks

Question 1

Scutum

Answer 1

Hard dorsal covering

Question 2

Festoon

Answer 2

Notches around the body edge. Pie crust.

Question 3

Palps

Answer 3

Sensory organ for temperature

Question 4

Hypostome

Answer 4

Tube for sucking host blood with backward-pointing teeth

Question 5

Chelicerae

Answer 5

Pair of scissors that help cut through the skin

Question 6

Trans-stadial transmission

Answer 6

The transmission of infectious agent ingested during feeding by larva

Question 7

Trans-ovarial

Answer 7

An infectious agent is passed from one generation to the next through the eggs

Question 8

Ixodes ricinus

Answer 8

Hard-bodied, 3-host tick in UK with a wide host range and human/animal disease. Paralysis in both.

Question 9

Ornate

Answer 9

Ticks have colored patches.

Question 10

Spelling a pasture

Answer 10

Removing the livestock so the one-host tick has nothing to feed on.

Question 11

Acaricide

Answer 11

Treatments that kill ticks on the host

Question 12

Sarcoptes

Answer 12

Burrowing mite causing mange

Question 13

Psoroptes

Answer 13

Surface mite, active in keratin layer of skin probing with piercing mouths

Question 14

Fomites

Answer 14

Inanimate objects that help transfer disease.

Question 15

Integrated parasite control

Answer 15

Parasite control programs that do not rely solely on drug treatment