Where ticks live in Russia: in what forests and houses are dangerous bloodsuckers found
Wherever ticks are found, a potential danger can lie in wait for a person. And they live everywhere: in the forest, in houses and apartments, under the skin, in bed and even in food. They are always there!
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Types of ticks dangerous to humans and pets
Different types of small arachnids can infect people, pets and companion animals or livestock. Many parasitize on rodents and even birds. In anticipation of the victim, they spend most of their lives, and cling to the warm and lively owners of blood.
Permanent Parasites
There is a group of diseases that cause arachnids belonging to different species. It's called acarosis. The smallest ticks, once getting under the skin of a person or animal, settle there for the entire life cycle. This group includes a small number of species of permanent parasites.
Temporary
The Ixodes and Argas families are temporary parasites. They parasitize on living beings or suck their blood. Their saliva has an anesthetic effect. These are the largest ticks.
The use of protective suits, repellents, when working or walking in the forest, as well as the use of chemical acaricidal preparations in stockyards, poultry farms, and outbuildings, will protect against health problems.
Why you need to beware of ticks
Of all the diseases that ixodid ticks carry, three are the best known and most dangerous. Two human and one most dangerous for animals.
The disease does not appear immediately, and the tick on the skin is not immediately noticeable. After a parasite bite, this dangerous virus enters the bloodstream, it affects the central nervous system and the consequences can be the saddest. Manifested by fever, intoxication, severe weakness, the course resembles the flu.
Infectious disease that occurs after a bite. At an early stage, it manifests itself as a rash in the form of erythema migrans, and after a few weeks, neurological, cardiac and rheumatological complications appear. Treated with antibiotics.
Affected dogs can hardly move due to weakness in the hind limbs, they have a fever, diarrhea and vomiting with an admixture of blood. The disease is usually fatal.
Lifestyle and tick hunting
The favorite habitats of these parasites are deciduous and mixed forests, with dense grass, moist and shaded. They can be found on the forest edges, and on the banks of the river.
Habitat of ticks
The habitat of ticks in Russia is very wide. The most dangerous areas are the Central European part, the Middle and Southern Urals, the south of Western and Eastern Siberia and the Far East.
| Where are the most ticks | Among residents of the Perm, Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, as well as in Udmurtia, Bashkiria and Transbaikalia, tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis are most often recorded. These regions are home to a large number of ticks. |
| Where is the encephalitic tick most common? | The carriers of tick-borne encephalitis are mainly the taiga and dog ticks that live in the temperate climate zone of Eurasia. Here are ideal conditions for their habitat - a temperate climate, mixed forests with dense grass. The leader in encephalitis in Russia is Siberia and the Far East. |
| Are there parasites in the cities | Although the tick's favorite habitat is the forest, it can be picked up while walking in the city park. These arthropods are especially active in the morning and evening hours; they really do not like the sun's rays. |
| Where do ticks hide in winter? | Ticks survive pretty well in low temperatures, but they die in ice, it just crushes them. Therefore, parasites unconsciously find tubercles in the upper layers of the soil and get rid of the fact that they fall into the water and, accordingly, do not freeze. If the autumn is not very rainy, the water does not flood these shelters, then the survival rate of ticks in winter will be very high. |
| Where in Russia there are no ticks | A very small number of these blood-sucking parasites are found in the northern part of Russia: Murmansk, Norilsk, Vorkuta, as they do not tolerate the harsh climate. But this does not mean at all that ticks are not there and you can forget about security measures when going to the forest, park, or hiking. |
Where do ticks come from in the house
Not all ticks are bloodthirsty and are bloodsuckers. There are absolutely peaceful ones that will not touch a person, but nevertheless will pose a danger to him. The enzymes they secrete are highly allergenic. They can cause diseases such as:
- rhinoconjunctivitis;
- bronchial asthma;
- atopic dermatitis;
- angioedema.
Types of household ticks
Every apartment has dust, and it has these spider dust mites. They are so microscopic that they are simply impossible to notice.
But people who are prone to allergies develop coughing, sneezing, runny nose and watery eyes, itchy skin.
Subcutaneous mites: what they look like and where they live
There are also subcutaneous mites:
- scabies. These mites live and lay their eggs in the upper layers of the skin. Scabies causes unbearable skin itching, rashes in the form of vesicles or tubercles. This is how the parasite makes its way. The disease is highly contagious, transmitted through any contact.
- Demodex. Affects the skin and causes severe itching. The person seems to feel movement under the skin. The tick lives in the sebaceous glands located on the face. There is a greasy sheen, the formation of acne and pimples. The affected area itches and flakes, red spots appear. The disease is called demodicosis.
Since these subcutaneous mites lose their activity in daylight, all unpleasant symptoms are aggravated in the evening and at night.
How long can ticks live in an apartment
Dust mites have long mastered houses and apartments.
Few people are looking for them purposefully, so they remain not found.
Yes, and they live where the human eye rarely gets, in sofas, in mattresses, behind baseboards, in carpets, wherever dust accumulates with skin flakes.
Dust mites feed on pieces of crumbling skin from humans and animals and are quite happy with such a life. Even after attempts to destroy them, it is very difficult to make sure that they have completely disappeared, since they can only be seen with a microscope.
You can also add village, shell mites here. - in the countryside there are a lot of them, chicken, rat - they regularly climb into apartments from attics and basements, in private houses they climb out of chicken coops, rabbitries and bite people. Bites are very itchy, inflamed.
PreviousSo ticks are not only encephalitic bloodsuckers in the forest, in nature, but also constant companions and roommates of a person.