Sheep Tick
Ixodes ricinus
The adult sheep tick is common in humid grassland, moorland, scrub, and woodland edges where hosts brush past vegetation. Adults quest higher than juveniles and females feed on larger mammals such as deer, sheep, dogs, and sometimes people, while males mainly seek females for mating. The diet is entirely blood, taken slowly through barbed mouthparts held in place by saliva. An engorged female can swell many times her unfed size before dropping off to lay thousands of eggs.
- Type
- Stealth
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- ?
- Sheep Tick Nymph
- Sheep Tick