Tick-like beetles

Content

1 Brief description of the tick
2 Tick-like beetles

: Mite

: Deer bloodsucker

: Bed bug

: Spider

Insects like ticks cause a lot of trouble to a person. A true tick is a carrier of dangerous diseases. After the bite, it is advisable to seek help from specialists, and the insect itself should be submitted to the laboratory for analysis. Insects that look like ticks can be completely harmless, so it's best to know who you have to deal with.

Brief description of the tick

When viewed through a magnifying glass, the tick looks like a crustacean. Having carefully studied the limbs, one can notice the similarity with the spider.Experts attribute this creature to a subclass of arthropods, the class of arachnids.

Interesting!
In everyday life, people used to call parasites insects, but this statement is incorrect. If you answer the question, the tick is an insect or arachnoid, with certainty the parasite is classified as a spider. The genus includes about 54 thousand representatives, of which 144 are fossils. The most amazing thing is that a tick is an animal, which many do not even realize.

Body length from 0.2 mm to 5 mm. The body is divided into two parts or whole. It has a convex shape. Hexapod larvae, adults have 4 pairs of paws. Color gray, brown, brown, red.

Mite

It lives on the klesh in the wild, likes deciduous trees, shrubs, tall grass. It attacks predominantly on animals, but may lie hidden on the human body. Bites at the neck, back, shoulders, rarely - stomach, legs, arms.

Tick-like beetles

In nature, there are many insects that externally or by characteristics of life resemble ticks.

Deer bloodsucker

Amazing creature like a tick, flea, fly. It has a relatively powerful body, tenacious legs with claws.A distinctive feature is the presence of transparent wings, three pairs of limbs. Insect prefers sunny terrain with deciduous trees, shrubs, thickets, tall grass.

Attack on wild animals, deer, moose, cattle. They feed on blood, are carriers of dangerous diseases - fever, Lyme disease.

On a note!
A bloodsucker attacks a person if it has not been able to find a host among animals for a long time. It does not live on the body for a long time, but for some time it digs into the skin, sucks blood. Due to this way of life, people often confuse it with a tick.

Bed bug

Detect this insect is problematic, because it leads a hidden lifestyle, activates its parasitic activity at night. It feeds exclusively on human blood. Builds nests in the room where the person sleeps. Favorite places - under the mattress, carpets, in the sofa, interior items, books, at the joints of furniture.

To distinguish the bug from the tick can be in appearance, lifestyle.

The body of a bed bug in a hungry state is flattened, after a nourishing meal, it becomes convex in shape.
6 pairs of limbs in larvae of any age, imago.
Bed bugs and mites feed on blood, but the former prefer humans, the latter - animals.
The bugs dwell on the body at the time of feeding, they spend most of their life in nests, actively reproducing. For a meal, choose the time from 3 am to 8 am.
To notice the presence of a live parasite in bed is problematic, whereas a dead body is easily detected after a nightly meal. A full bug is a vulnerable creature that dies with the slightest pressure on the body.

On a note!
Tick bites in one place, does not live on a person longer than 3 days. The bedbug makes regular forays, leaves paired bites in the form of a walkway. Characterized by systematic attacks. With a small infection of the room 1 time in 7-10 days. These symptoms can be distinguished pests.

Spider

Spider mites have much in common with spiders because they belong to the same class. However, if we are talking about representatives of our locality, it is very easy to distinguish one being from another.

Spiders have a convex body shape, four pairs of limbs, a solid ecoskeleton, which practically does not stretch. They feed on insects, small animals.Hiding from sunlight. The person does not interest them absolutely, they appear on the body “by mistake”.

It is possible to distinguish a tick from a spider by a characteristic web. Arthropods form their networks for the victim. Butterflies, flies, larvae, mosquitoes and other small insects are easily caught in the web. Less commonly, spiders attack themselves.

It is possible to distinguish a tick from other insects by their external characteristics, characteristics of their vital activity, and nutrition. The parasite is active in the warm season, is found in the wild, forest belts, city park, in the yard on the green vegetation. Determine the presence of a pest on the body does not always work immediately. The main symptoms are itching, swelling, redness, sometimes a parasite that has sucked.