| fleas and lice parasitizing mammals in missouri. | three species of chewing lice, 11 species of sucking lice, and 28 species of fleas are recorded from mammals in missouri. of these, seven species of sucking lice (hoplopleura acanthopus, hoplopleura hesperomydis, hoplopleura sciuricola, neohaematopinus sciuri, neohaematopinus sciurinus, neohaematopinus sciuropteri, and solenopotes ferrisi) and one species of flea (doratopsylla blarinae) represent new state records. from 1993 to 1995, 773 individual mammals were examined for ectoparasites in sout ... | 1997 | 9491363 |
| host utilization and seasonal occurrence of dermacentor species (acari:ixodidae) in missouri, usa. | a total of 3,235 dermacentor variabilis (say) specimens were collected from birds, mammals, and by dragging vegetation, and 2,683 d. albipictus (packard) ticks were collected from deer from 1993 to 1996. peak seasonal occurrence of adult d. variabilis was from may through july with a precipitous decrease in august. nymphal d. variabilis populations peaked in june. peak activity of larvae was bimodal, with one activity peak during late summer (september) and a second peak in winter or early sprin ... | 2000 | 11201355 |