…domestic pigeon nests, just as they can also stay in old pigeon nests. The pigeon tick is found on Danish soil but is not very widespread in Denmark. Appearance The pigeon tick is quite easy to recognize on its body shape. It is fairly flattened and has the shape of an egg. The female pigeon tick is quite large and can grow over 1 centimeter long, just as she can grow more than ½ centimeters wide. The pigeon tick larva, however, is somewhat smalle…
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The european pigeon tick
Pigeon mite The European pigeon tick, Argas Reflexus, is a large, grayish mite. The female can be more than 1 cm long and more than 1/2 inch wide. The small stages, the larvae are less than l mm long. All stages are blood-sucking and feed on pigeons. In a pigeon house the European pigeon tick is a nuisance. If the pigeon house is highly infested, the pigeons can be weakened and die from anaemia. In Denmark, the European pigeon tick has been known…
Brown dog tick
…gy and behavior It is often the dog that is the recipient of the brown dog tick bite. Once the female tick has blood of its host, she releases the fur and instead seeks out a suitable hiding place nearby. The brown dog tick tends to seek upwards, which is why it is not uncommon to find them high up on the wall behind mirrors or pictures or inside cracks and crevices between wall and ceiling. Once the female has found a suitable place, she clings a…
The castor bean tick bite
…infection. On the Danish islands of Bornholm and Zealand, the castor bean tick transmits tick-borne encephalitis of which there two sub-types in Denmark: The European encephalitis virus and the Far-Eastern tick-borne encephalitis virus. They can cause meningitis-like illness that particularly affects people who reside in forest areas. The disease is caused by a virus and can not be cured with antibiotics. The course of the disease is usually mild…
European pigeon tick bites
…exclusively the adults and nymphs that bite people. A bite from the large pigeon tick can be quite the experience. The bite is clumsy and can be painful. From the bite wound, a wide, pink, slightly swollen area may appear. Later, color will turn red or reddish-blue. Both the color as well the swelling can stay on the skin for up to three weeks. If bitten several times, people can become unwell and experience nausea, rapid heartbeat, shortness of…
Ticks
…from mice and larger mammals such as humans, foxes, deer, and dogs. Adult tick also sucks blood from larger mammals. The tick climbs into vegetation and grabs passing animals, where it bites. Once the tick has taken hold, it will remain in place for five to six days, after which it will fall to the ground and find a hiding place. Ticks are mainly active during spring and fall. During winter, the tick usually stays under moss or some other form of…
Biology
…hicker as the dorsal side bulges out. (Dusbabek & Rosicky) When a European pigeon tick is hatched from the egg, it is less than l mm long. It immediately seeks out a pigeon or a young pigeon to which it latches on and feeds on for 2-10 days. Then, once it is full, it leaves its host to crawl into a hiding place where it can digest and molt. After evolving into a nymph, the tick repeats the cycle once more – It feeds for approx. 20 minutes – and th…
Pigeon tick
…flexus) This is a bird parasite which may occasionally occur in the house. It is much larger than the red poultry mite and has a leathery, oval, red-brown body. The mouth parts are situated on the underside of the body and are not normally seen. Pigeon ticks which occur particularly in dovecotes have similar habits to poultry mites, but they can survive without food for a longer period. There have been cases where pigeon ticks have appeared 2-3 ye…
Castor bean tick
…ere it seeks shelter and digests its meal. During the course of its life a tick has to find a host on three occasions, twice when young, and once as an adult before it can lay eggs. A female tick may lay more than 2,000 eggs, but these do not survive indoors where the environment is too dry. When living on its host a tick is very firmly anchored and is not easily removed with forceps. It is, however, essential to remove the whole animal, otherwise…
If the European pigeon ticks are not controlled
…ned that they cannot figure out how to bite. This is especially applies to pigeon ticks that spotted in broad daylight, because the ticks are typical nocturnal pests who seek out their hosts at night. The ticks that appear several years after the pigeon house has been closed down, are quite large – adults or almost adults. They come out when they get hungry. If you do not do anything besides removing the ticks you see, the number of ticks that pop…
Tick removal
…etc. Each method has its sworn devotees. A 90° turn. If you just pull the tick it may break the ticks’ body. Many take the chance anyway – with or without household remedies – and remove the legs and mouth parts with a needle, tweezers or adhesive plaster afterwards. In order to remove the whole tick, be sure to pinch the skin together under the tick, so that the bite wound expands. Then twist the tick 90° and gently pull it out. The wound should…
Pigeons
…d “side gains”, as they can carry around annoying small crawls such as the pigeon tick. It is also this boring tendency that allows pigeons to act as spreaders of disease. In Denmark, however, only a few cases are known where pigeons have spread dangerous diseases. Prevention and pest control The best way to avoid pigeons is to take a number of precautionary measures. Both on a large and small scale. It is first and foremost about making the livin…
Ticks
…ave a total of three blood meals (as larvae, as nymphs and as adults). The pigeon tick needs a total of five blood meals. The risk of not being able to find the next host is quite large. Ticks get by laying many eggs and by being able to live a long time without food. Three kinds of ticks can be especially troublesome: The castor bean tick, which is an outdoor species and brown dog tick and the pigeon tick which are two indoor species with dogs an…
The brown dog tick
…ites people. The species is widespread in warmer parts of the world. In Europe, it is mainly found in the Mediterranean. In Denmark, it is mostly seen on dogs that come from the south. In our parts of the world, the brown dog tick is found indoors. In appearance, it is similar to the castor bean tick. Usually, the circumstances under which the tick is found provide clues as to which species it belong. Brown dog ticks need to be controlled. The dog…
The castor bean tick
…climb onto a host with the front pair of legs. (Gjelstrup) The castor bean tick The castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus, is just one of about thirty kinds of ticks that are found in Denmark. However, it is almost exclusively this species of ticks that is found on humans. An adult male tick is approx. 2 mm long. The female is twice as long. Ticks engorge when they suck blood. The abdomen’s reddish-brown, leathery skin can expand quite a lot. A blood f…
Brown dog tick
…riginally evolved in very dry climates, it is able, unlike the castor bean tick, to live and breed in centrally heated houses with a dry climate. Fully fed female dog ticks are scarcely one centimetre long when they leave the host, and this most often happens in the dog’s bed. Even in this condition they are surprisingly mobile and while searching for a suitable site for egg-laying they have a tendency to wander upwards. The 2,000-4,000 red-brown…
Index
…hovespula Encefalitis Euproctis chrysorrhea European chicken flea European pigeon tick Euscorpius italicus Felicola subrostrata Flatworms Flea allergy Flea collar Flea control Flea excrement Fleas Flies Flower mite Folie a deux Formic acid Fruit mite Fruit mites Fur mites Ginny pig itch mite Gliricola porcelli Gyropus ovalis Haematopota pluvialis Haemodipsus ventricosus Haemopsis sanguisuga Hallucination Harvest mite Head louse Hedgehog flea Hepat…
The domestic pigeon
…, the European rock doves, they prefer to build nests up high on ledges. The pigeons can get by with very little nesting material. A pigeon’s nest is just a cake of excrement, held together by a few straw or sticks. The pigeons can however collect quite a lot material over time when they have the opportunity. The pigeons begin laying eggs in early spring and can get a dozen young during the summer….
The european adder
…nly seen by people who experience the nature during the summer. The common European adder, or European viper, Vipera berus, is the only venomous snake in Denmark. It has a zigzag stripe down the back. The stripe may be missing from the rarer, plain black or red varieties. Grass snakes, which are non-toxic, have two yellow neck spots. These spots are always missing in vipers. The viper only bites at people if it is impossible to escape – if someone…
Suspected brown dog tick infestation
…cantly colder outside, it may be brown dog ticks. High levels of infestation in the house and ticks (especially blood-filled, gray females) on walls and ceilings may be brown dog ticks. Ticks that are found on dogs that have been imported from or returned from a vacation in the South, could be brown dog ticks….
Pigeon bug
…( Latin: Cimex columbarius ) Possibly only a subspecies of the common bed bug, and sometimes known as C. lectularius columbarius. It occurs in dovecots and in attics where feral pigeons roost. It is very voracious but fortunately not very common….
Index
…laneta americana Phalangium opilio Pharaoh ant Pholcus phalangoides Phthirus pubis Phymatodes testaceus Pieris brassicae Pigeon bug Pigeon tick Pigeons Pine sawyer Pine weevil Piophila casei…
Where?
…horse flies, bees, hornets, ants, hedgehog fleas, bird fleas, caster bean tick, harvest mites, stinging jellyfish, leeches, greater weevers and the European adder. Of course, the line that separates the two groups in this division of the animals is quite thin. The outdoor species may stray into houses or they can be brought inside. Mosquitoes bite people inside the house while other animals, such as horse flies, do not bite while indoor. From bir…
Brown dog tick control
…ion or if there are only a few ticks, initially, you can simply remove the ticks and see what happens. If the suspicion has been confirmed, you can treat the dog with a pour-on product in the hair – the same kind that is used against fleas, alternatively, you can use flea collars or treat the dog’s fur with a powder-based pesticide for dogs. Control can also be exaggerated. Using too many products at the same time can make the dog sick. When in do…
Index
…obia Domestica, Passer Domesticus, Glycyphagus Dominica, Rhyzopherta Dove, European rock Drosphila Drugstore beetle Dust mite, house Earwig, common Elutella, Ephestia Enicmus Ephestia cautella Ephestia elutella Ephestia kuehniella Erythrocephala, Calliphora Eruditus , Cheyletus European rock dove Fannia canicularis Farinae, Aleurobius Farinae, Dermatophagoides Farinae, Tyroglyphus Farris, Acarus Fasciculatus, Araeocerus Ferrugineus, Laemophleus Fe…
Bed bugs in animals
…pigeon bugs visits – and visits from any of the other animals that live in pigeons – is greatest if you remove the pigeons and do not simultaneously remove nests, clean and disinfect. A treatment with insect powder will be effective against the pigeon bug. Oeciacus hirundinis, live in swallow nests, but can enter houses and bite people. In the rare case that we know of, it happened in the autumn, when the swallow leaves the nest, and in May from n…
Pigeons
…s and properties. The pigeons we see in our cities look much like the rock pigeon. Rock pigeons live along Western Europe’s coastal cliffs and deep in Asia’s mountainous regions. It has never lived wild in Scandinavia, and its descendants, our city pigeons, must cope with the artificial rock landscape that is our buildings. Pidgeons can be a pest in major cities. They breed on the buildings where they can find suitable nesting places. The nest is…
Control
…crevices – might help a little bit. Unfortunately, it is rarely enough. Often, you actually have to cover the tick hiding places, in order to solve the problem. In those cases you have to weigh the pros and cons. Pigeon tick control works best when carried out between April and September, and preferably in the hottest time where the ticks’ metabolism is high and they are therefore most sensitive to pesticides….
Frequency
… 0 1 0 0 Swift louse fly 0 1 0 0 0 0 Castor bean tick 0 1 0 Mosquitoes 1 0 Biting midges 1 0 0 Stenepteryx hirundinis 0 0 1 0 European adder (Lat. Vipera berus) 0 0 1 0 Honey bee 0 1 0 Bumblebee 0 1 0 Horse-flies 1 0 Hornets 0 1 0 0 0 Cat fleas 0 1 0 0…
Bed bugs
…(Cimex columbarius) are very close relatives to the bed bug. They live in pigeon’s nests or in attics where some pigeons live, they can on rare occasions find their way into homes and then bite people. Dermestes haemorrhoidalis Dermestes haemorrhoidalis is a very close relative to the bacon beetle. The larvae are indistinguishable from those of the bacon beetle, but the beetles are distinguished by being black and they lack the bright bands over…