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May is the beginning of the state’s high tick season, a University of Kentucky entomologist said.
Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, the northeastern water tick, or the turkey tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico, that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood.
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The state is trying to track the spread of the illness carried by the Asian Longhorned tick. Cattle disease carried by ‘self-cloning’ ticks has been identified in another Kentucky county Skip ...
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]
The tick collection aids parasitic research which is of interest to health and agriculture because some species of tick carry Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. [1] The collection's specimens are freeze dried , bottled and coated so as to appear more vividly under a microscope .
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Indian Creek [1] is a stream in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States, and a tributary of the Barren River, [2] or “Big Barren River” as described in early deeds and surveys, [3] [4] which distinguished it from the “Little Barren River,” [5] another stream in Southcentral Kentucky.