Abstract
Ticks, irrespective of classification, share a number of common features. The vast majority obtain nutrition through blood feeding on a vertebrate host, and all have multiple life stages from egg through to adult. However, within this life cycle, there is wide variation. To illustrate this, the following chapter describes the life cycles of a number of hard and soft ticks. Examples that include common ticks such as Ixodes ricinus and the African tick, Ornithodoros moubata, will illustrate the main features of the tick life cycle. A number of other species, such as one that feeds exclusively on bats, are included to illustrate particular behaviors that demonstrate that variation.
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