Predation of free-living engorged female Rhipicephalus appendiculatus

dc.contributor.author	Mwangi Esther N
dc.contributor.author	Newson RM.
dc.contributor.author	Kaaya Godwin P.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-18T06:39:26Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-18T06:39:26Z
dc.date.issued	1991-10
dc.identifier.citation	Exp Appl Acarol. 1991 Oct;12(3-4):153-62.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1773676
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/35271
dc.description.abstract	In experiments done over a period of 1 1/2 years using engorged female Rhipicephalus appendiculatus tethered in a grass plot, 42% predation was observed in long grass (40-60 cm), and 36% in short grass (6-10 cm). Deaths due to environmental factors were 4.8% and 6.8% in long and short grass, respectively. Six groups of animals were confirmed to be predators of the ticks, namely: ants, spiders, rodents, birds, lizards and shrews. The implications of these results in making tick population models, and the possibility of using predators in integrated tick-control packages are discussed	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi.	en
dc.title	Predation of free-living engorged female Rhipicephalus appendiculatus	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	School of Biological Sciences	en