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Article Excerpt
Introduction
The bird-feeding tick, Ixodes brunneus, Koch (Acari: Ixodidae) (Figure 1), is an interesting tick which occurs in primarily in North America. All active stages of I. brunneus have been collected on birds of many species, but commonly reported hosts include blackbirds, jays, robins, sparrows, thrashers, thrushes, towhees, waxwings, and wrens (Bishopp and Trembley 1945, Cooley and Kohls 1945). It does not bite humans. Although this species likely occurs throughout Mississippi, it has been collected only rarely (Goddard and Layton 2006). Numerous drag-cloth tick surveys by the author in Mississippi, conducted weekly for years, failed to find I. brunneus (Goddard 1992, 1997, Goddard et al. 2003, Goddard and Paddock 2005). This paper presents new records for the bird tick, description of a site where specimens may be readily collected, and comments on an apparent bacterial symbiont associated with the tick.
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