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Natural enemies of Ixodid mites

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usagosha, 04.07.2007 7:09

Are there any natural enemies of ixodid ticks in nature? I live in the South. In the Urals. The ticks are already out, to be honest. 1 shoot, and you already have 2 more crawling. And they absolutely don't care about any reftamids.

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04.07.2007 11:18, guest: Brandashmyg

Ixodiphagus (if correctly written from memory) is a parasite of Ixodidae.

04.07.2007 15:07, RippeR

on TV, in my opinion on Euronuz, I watched about small sedges that parasitize on ticks. They lay eggs in them, and after a relatively short time the ticks will die because of the larva inside. According to the photo on ixodiophagus, which I found does not look like-they were completely black, with rounded shapes.

04.07.2007 21:06, guest: usagosha

And there is no one more significant than that?

04.07.2007 22:27, RippeR

what do you want to hear?
With ticks in general, everything is not easy - they have very few natural enemies, which is why there are such epidemics..

04.07.2007 23:06, Proctos

Various tick biocontrol agents are known:

Birds - Buphagus africanus (Buffalo bird), Buphagus erythrorhynchus (Red-billed buffalo starling) in Brazil, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Rider insects of the genus Ixodiphagus (I. hookeri and others) family Encyrtidae (Europe, North America). America and Russia)
Entomopathogenic nematodes (Egypt, Israel, Guadeloupe, and USA)
Entomopathogenic fungi and bacteria (Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Kenya, and USA)

This post was edited by Proctos-05.07.2007 00: 20

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