Identifier: lifehistorybiono106hook (find matches)
Title: The life history and bionomics of some North American ticks
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hooker, W. A. (William Anson), 1877- Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970 Wood, H. P. (Herbert Poland), 1883-1925 Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
Subjects: Ticks
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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. HOST RELATIONSHIP. The adults of this tick have been collected from the gopher tortoiseonly. Experimental attempts to attach them to bovines havefailed. The nymphs are commonly found on the gopher tortoiseand have been engorged in experiments upon a bovine. Engorgedlarvae have been collected in large numbers from dogs and rabbitsand in smaller numbers from cattle and two birds of prey, namely,the owl and the hawk. The fact that the bird hosts discovered havebeen birds of prey has suggested the thought that the larvae crawledto the bird host from the small mammals devoured by them. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. (Fig. 8.) The type locality of this tick is Crescent City, Fla. The speciesappears to be commonly met with on the peninsula of Florida as farnorth as Hawthorn and it is reported as being rather common insouthern Alabama. Neumann (1899) reports that there is a malein the Paris Museum which was collected in Cuba. Bu,. 106, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate IX,
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The Gopher-Tortoise Tick, Amblyomma tuberculatum. Fig. 1.—Unengorged larva. Fig. 2.—Unengorged nymph. Fig. 3.—Engorged nymph. Fig. 4.— Engorged female, dorsal view. Fig. 5.—Females engorging on tortoises feet. Fig. 6.—Male, dorsalview. Fig. 7.—Unengorged female, dorsal view. Fig. 8.—Engorged female, ventral view. ^Orig-inal.) THE GOPHER-TORTOISE TICK. 125 LIFE HISTORY. Observations on the biology of this tick have been published byHooker (1909a). The egg (Table XLV). — Three females were engorged upon abox tortoise. Their respective dimensions were: 24 by 18.5 by 11

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