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It lives in semi-permanent burrows and can reside in or escape to deeper soil layers. [4] Its activity is limited by temperature and humidity. High soil and night air temperatures inhibit activity, as do low night moisture and dry soil. During such times, particularly in the summer, the worms will retreat to the deepest parts of their burrows.
From front to back, the basic shape of the earthworm is a cylindrical tube-in-a-tube, divided into a series of segments (called metameres) that compartmentalize the body. Furrows are generally [ 11 ] externally visible on the body demarking the segments; dorsal pores and nephridiopores exude a fluid that moistens and protects the worm's surface ...
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A habitat preferred by ticks is the interface where a lawn meets the forest, [67] or more generally, the ecotone, which is unmaintained transitional edge habitat between woodlands and open areas. Therefore, one tick management strategy is to remove leaf litter, brush, and weeds at the edge of the woods. [ 68 ]
Belostomatidae is a family of freshwater hemipteran insects known as giant water bugs or colloquially as toe-biters, Indian toe-biters, electric-light bugs (because they fly to lights in large numbers), alligator ticks, or alligator fleas (in Florida). They are the largest insects in the order Hemiptera. [1]
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Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick, is a chiefly European species of hard-bodied tick.It may reach a length of 11 mm (0.43 in) when engorged with a blood meal, and can transmit both bacterial and viral pathogens such as the causative agents of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis.
Cats mostly have ticks where they cannot reach to groom themselves—often on the back of the neck or between the shoulder blades, under the chin, on the head, or on the upper leg. Ticks can attach elsewhere, even the tail, hard palate or inside the anus. [58] Long-haired cats that venture outdoors are more at risk. [58]