This mite lives on the human body, namely on the face. The body length is 0.4-0.5 mm, the body is oblong, has a light yellow color. The subcutaneous mite lives in the sebaceous glands, the pores of the skin, in the glands of the eyelids and in the hair follicles on the head. Feeding under the skin, the hair mite releases toxic substances that cause an allergic reaction: itching, redness, rash. Subcutaneous mites in humans on the face cannot be seen with the naked eye, but only under a microscope. A tick in the skin lays eggs, develops and leaves behind excrement and passages, which leads to the above diseases.
Body size 0.1-0.5 mm. Dust mites are saprophytic mites, that is, they feed on processed waste products of humans, animals and plants. This is a household mite that lives in pillows, mattresses, linen, and house dust. It is also often called farina, sofa or paper tick. House mites can cause an allergic reaction, asthma. Heat treatment of linen, pillows and regular wet cleaning in the house is necessary.
chicken mite
Feather mites are microscopic - 0.5 mm. Down and feather pillows are the perfect habitat for them. The feather mite is dangerous to humans because it causes allergic reactions, hives, bronchial asthma, swelling of the respiratory tract and dermatitis. House mites irritate the epidermis of our skin. You can get rid of them by steaming the pillows or washing them in hot water. And it is best to buy pillows made of non-natural filler.
The soil mite has an oval light body (0.5-1 mm). The root mite lives in the soil, biting into the roots and root crops, which is what harm agriculture. Damaged root crops become rotten and often rot. Infestation of crops by soil mites can also occur during storage. In the fight against soil mites, acaricides (drugs against mites) will help you.
The mealy mite is microscopic, with a body length of 0.32-0.67 mm. The flour mite feeds on cereals, flour, meat products, dried fruits. The barn mite is a pest of food storage in the house. Grain that has been damaged by a flour mite is unsuitable for human consumption. The flour mite carries E. coli and various bacteria. Their skin causes allergies and dermatoses, especially in children. Flour mite also contributes to the disease of the gastrointestinal tract, shortness of breath, anaphylaxis, kidney disease. The flour mite does not tolerate low temperatures. For fumigation of large rooms, it is advised to use acaricides Fostoksin, Fostek.
The shell mite has a dark brown body color (0.7-0.9 mm). It is not harmful to humans and agriculture. On the contrary, it helps to regulate the decomposition of organic matter and microorganisms living in the soil. The soil becomes loose and favorable for plant growth. The shell mite feeds on plant and animal decaying remains.
The rat tick attacks mainly rats, but can also drink the blood of other rodents. Body 0.75 to 1.44 mm gray or black. The rat tick can also attack other mammals, including humans. The rat mite on the human body leaves redness, itching, swelling, rash. The rat tick is dangerous because it carries dangerous diseases such as rat tick dermatitis, tularemia, typhoid, and fever. A rat can easily transmit these diseases to humans.
Currant mite white, worm-like (0.2 mm). The kidney mite is a pest of currants and gooseberries. The kidney mite on the currant feeds on plant juices. On plants gets with the help of insects, birds, wind. The bud mite, wintering in currant buds, damages them, which leads to deformation and death of the buds. A bud mite on a currant can settle in 8 individuals per bud. To combat it, acaricides are used and the rules of agricultural technology are observed. The kidney mite on the currant gives five generations per year.
The gall mite has a worm-like body shape (0.1-0.3 mm). It inhabits both cultivated and wild trees, bushes, shrubs. The gall mite sucks the juices from the leaves of plants, as a result of which photosynthesis and water balance are disturbed, which ultimately leads to deformation and drying of the leaves. Also, small shoots appear on the leaves - galls, in which the gall mite hides and lays its eggs. It is necessary to spray plants with acaricides and insecticides, follow the rules of agricultural technology, and thus the gall mite will no longer harm your plants.
The body is oval, translucent, pale yellow (0.1-0.2 mm). The strawberry mite feeds on the juices of the leaves and is located on the underside of the leaf plate. The strawberry mite attacks the plant during the release of the antennae. The harm that the strawberry mite carries to strawberries is wilting, drying and dying off of the leaves. For a year, a strawberry mite gives about 7 generations. So the scale of its settlement is quite large.
The body is oval (0.4-0.6 mm). Body color depends on the mode of life of the tick. For example, a spider mite on red cucumbers. This red mite settles on the underside of the leaf and sucks the juices from the plant. The red mite on cucumbers settles in large colonies, which leads to the rapid death of the plant. Also, a red tick on flowers causes no less damage. It is also called flower mite. He enjoys houseplants. For example, the red mite on an orchid reproduces very actively, especially at warm temperatures. The spider mite settles on violets no less than on other flowers. A pubescent leaf is an ideal habitat for its habitat. The spider mite leaves a thin web on plants, only those species that have a spinning apparatus are capable of this. Their web does not carry special significance, this is only a characteristic feature that they inherited from relatives of spiders.
The body is flat, round or oval (1-10mm). It is a gray mite, sometimes light yellow to brown, or almost black. Taiga ticks are bloodsuckers by the nature of their diet. After feeding on blood, this forest mite becomes gray or pinkish-yellowish. Stages of development of ixodid ticks: egg, larva, nymph and adult representative. The usual victims of larvae and nymphs are small animals, but ticks are found in humans no less often. They are usually attached to the head or other places with hair. The forest tick most often carries Lyme disease, that is, the well-known encephalitis, piroplasmosis and others. It is distributed throughout the world. These are the most dangerous ticks.
A microscopic insect - a tick - often causes panic in people. A small insect can make them paranoid, constantly examining their own skin and the thick fur of a pet. What are dangerous ticks, and what diseases they cause, we will find out right now.
What viruses does this little bug carry? First of all, this In an infected person, the infection affects the nervous system: various kinds of neurological disorders appear, which in the end can even lead to death. The incubation period lasts about two weeks, after which the patient feels weak and tired, his body temperature rises, accompanied by muscle and headaches. After five days, the symptoms disappear, but after a week they roll with a vengeance. In addition, there are irreversible changes in the brain. The patient needs immediate medical attention.
Are ticks dangerous for dogs? Undoubtedly. Like a person, an animal can catch another terrible infection - borreliosis. In this case, not only the nervous, but also the cardiovascular system is affected. At first, the disease, the incubation period of which lasts a month, resembles SARS. If therapy is started on time, it can be cured with antibiotics. Otherwise, the person will remain disabled. As for dogs, they will also suffer from severe damage to the joints, remaining lame and crippled for the rest of their lives.
Another dangerous infection is hemorrhagic fever. It affects all the internal organs of a person. At first, the disease resembles ordinary poisoning, but complications can arise already at its second stage: toxic shock, kidney failure, and even cerebral coma. Recovery is long and takes several months. Therefore, if you doubt whether ticks are dangerous, think about the serious consequences that their bite causes.
In addition to borreliosis, other troubles threaten our beloved pets. For example, bartonellosis is a bacterial infection of erythrocytes, macrophages and endothelial cells. Among the symptoms are fever, drowsiness, weight loss, inflammation of the eyelids and joints, weakness of the hind limbs, anemia. Although sometimes the disease can be completely latent: the owners are sincerely surprised when their seemingly healthy dog suddenly dies. If the virus is left untreated, it causes complications such as bleeding and meningitis.
The so-called blood diseases also include ehrlichiosis, against which the dog loses weight, it has constant hemorrhages, shortness of breath appears. If the disease is not treated, it leads to severe damage to all organs.
Our beloved furry creatures are also not immune from the serious diseases that insects carry. The most famous among them is hemobartonellosis. Its main signs are loss of appetite and complete apathy. In some cases, anemia is observed, which is accompanied by weight loss, heart palpitations, pallor. Some housewives notice that the cat begins to eat dirt or garbage. Without timely assistance, the animal may die from complications caused by anemia.
Now you understand how ticks are dangerous for humans and animals. In most cases, they cause serious health problems that lead to either disability or death. Even timely treatment does not guarantee the absence of complications - chronic disorders of the internal organs, systems, joints. Ask your doctor about the correct therapy. Strictly follow all instructions, including the daily routine and rational nutrition.
Why are ticks dangerous to humans? The fact that they are carriers of deadly viruses. In order not to get sick, prevention is necessary: a constant examination of the skin after visiting the forest, the choice of closed clothing during walks in nature. If, despite all the tricks, the tick managed to stick to the body, it must be removed as soon as possible. There are three effective ways.
There are more than 48,000 varieties of ticks, many types of ticks are microscopic in size and it is impossible to see them without special instruments. Most types of mites do not exceed 5 mm in length. Most ticks are not dangerous to humans and feed on vegetation or smaller insects, but there are representatives of this species that have earned notoriety by sticking to human skin and feeding on our blood.
The greatest danger to human health and many animals is represented by ixodid ticks, since they are known carriers of infectious diseases. Now you can recover from almost any disease, but you shouldn’t tempt fate and it’s better to think about your own protection before going to the forest or going to the country, because many types of ticks carry serious diseases.
Ticks use a waiting tactic to find their prey. A forest tick can hide on a branch or leaf for a long time until it climbs onto a victim that has stopped nearby.
The forest mite is a long-lived insect, and can live from one to four years, depending on habitat conditions.
It is quite simple to deal with these mites, you should carry out regular general cleaning of the premises and dust off tables and cabinets several times a week.
Demodex mites are often found on the skin of healthy people and do not cause trouble, they can live on the host's body for a long time, waiting for the person's immune system to weaken in order to penetrate into the inner layers of the skin. This happens when a person becomes very ill or undergoes surgery.
Symptoms of the disease are dry, peeling skin on the face, ears, neck and eyelids. Symptoms are accompanied by itching and redness of the skin.
Treatment of the skin from a subcutaneous tick is quite tedious and lengthy, it can take up to 4 months. For treatment, special antibacterial ointments are used, they are applied to damaged areas of the skin.
Also known as "soft" and "lurking" because of their appearance and habitats. Argas mites can be found in caves, rubble, burrows, abandoned sheds and other places of this type.
Photo of a gamasid mite
They live in human homes and feed on dust mites and other small insects. They live almost everywhere, in carpets, clothes, blankets in dusty areas of the room. Predatory mites do not feed on the blood of people or domestic animals and do not bring harm, on the contrary, by feeding on other mites, they reduce the number of dust mites in the air and dust.
The moose tick feeds mainly on the blood of deer, elk, horses and other large animals, they were also found on the body of foxes, wild boars, badgers and other animals.
These flies can also feed on human blood, the moose tick is not actually a tick, and the only similarity between them is that both species feed on blood. The confusion is due to a specific way to move, for this they use wings and fly well, but when it hits a prey, a deer bloodsucker sheds its wings and moves with the help of its paws.
These bloodsuckers belong to the family of ixodid, that is, those with hard covers, ticks. It is dog bloodsuckers that are the distributors of the largest number of infectious pathogens that pose a significant danger to both humans and animals.
Outwardly, dog ticks are similar to their Ixodes "brothers", but have a uniform brown-red color not only on the back, but also on the limbs.
The possibility of stretching the body in each of the stages of development varies significantly. The larva is able to increase the body when feeding twice, the nymph and the female - three times or more, the male - 1.5 times.
The general activity of dog ticks occurs when the earth surface warms up to 5 degrees, but the peaks for each of the transformation stages differ.
While for adult bloodsuckers adults the characteristic time of activity falls on the last months of spring and the beginning of autumn, larvae and nymphs, on the contrary, go hunting in the season that falls in the middle of summer.
Given the theoretical possibility of a nymph to cling to a person, since it can climb up a plant to a meter height, it is not advisable to lose vigilance even in the hot summer months. Protecting yourself, children and pets as carefully as in spring and autumn becomes a necessity.
The distribution zones of the dog tick in central Russia coincide with the taiga "brother", and around the world the dog bloodsucker is found much more widely - throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere of the planet.
It has another name - "European forest tick", although in Latin it is called the same - Ixodes ricinus.
This suggests that the dog tick is rampant with might and main where there is vegetation. In recent years, there has been a steady migration of ticks closer to humans and their households.
The dog bloodsucker, which previously traditionally fed on the blood of forest and steppe inhabitants, such as foxes, wolves, jackals, can now be easily found in close proximity to people:
This bloodsucker loves to live in the territory of dog enclosures and kennels, where thoroughbred dogs are bred.
This representative of ixodid bloodsuckers is no exception and also applies to polyphages - polyphagous arachnids. That is, it does not matter to him whose blood to suck out for saturation and further development.
Therefore, in principle, any warm-blooded animal and person can become a victim of tick attacks.
Since it is enough for ticks to feed once in each of the stages of transformation, they stick to the host for a long time. The female is saturated the longest - she can suck out blood for about 14 days, after which she will make a clutch and die.
Dog ticks are more dangerous than taiga ticks, and carry a threat of contracting infectious diseases dangerous to health for both humans and domestic animals - dogs and livestock.
These bloodsuckers, when piercing the skin and injecting their own enzymes, transmit pathogens of such diseases to people:
Increasingly, facts of simultaneous infection with encephalitis and borreliosis are being recorded. Without proper treatment, the victim of a bite is doomed, at best, to remain a lifelong invalid, at worst, to die.
For dogs and cattle, dog ticks carry the threat of infection with piroplasmosis, which causes painful and quick death of the animal. To prevent such damage, livestock are treated with repellents. So do competent dog breeders.
In a season dangerous with tick attacks, the existing threat of getting bitten should not be taken lightly. Be sure to protect yourself and protect children or your own dog.
People should take the following steps during peak waves of tick-borne attacks:
For dogs, there are protective effective remedies in the form of drops on the withers, sprays, collars and tablets for oral administration.
Finding yourself in nature, it is important to adhere to simple protective rules - avoid walking along the edge of paths overgrown with grass and shrubs, stop for the night not in grass, but in places devoid of vegetation.
