https://www.sciencenews.org/article...ck-can-clone-itself-suck-livestock-dry?tgt=nr
Known as the longhorned tick or bush tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis is ubiquitous in Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula. The New Jersey sheep was the first documented sighting in the continental United States, say Rainey and Egizi, who published their findings online February 19 in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Scientists say that it is rare to find an invasive tick species in the wild. And this one seems to be spreading. It has been discovered in at least three more states — Virginia, West Virginia and Arkansas — and warnings have been issued for Maryland.
Here are five reasons why scientists are keeping an eye on this sneaky invader.
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This tick is one of the rare forms that clones itself. After feeding, a female lays hundreds of eggs that develop into adult ticks with no male intervention. They are a big threat to livestock & can transmit bacterial & viral disease to humans. And it is spreading rapidly.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article...ck-can-clone-itself-suck-livestock-dry?tgt=nr
Known as the longhorned tick or bush tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis is ubiquitous in Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula. The New Jersey sheep was the first documented sighting in the continental United States, say Rainey and Egizi, who published their findings online February 19 in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Scientists say that it is rare to find an invasive tick species in the wild. And this one seems to be spreading. It has been discovered in at least three more states — Virginia, West Virginia and Arkansas — and warnings have been issued for Maryland.
Here are five reasons why scientists are keeping an eye on this sneaky invader.
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This tick is one of the rare forms that clones itself. After feeding, a female lays hundreds of eggs that develop into adult ticks with no male intervention. They are a big threat to livestock & can transmit bacterial & viral disease to humans. And it is spreading rapidly.
Just what we needed, a brand new and very prolific sort of blood sucker. I wonder what diseases this one spreads?
That's a disgusting one.
We've been getting so many ticks these past few years. It's hard to go outside for any length of time without getting a few bites. I'm constantly pulling them off the dogs, even after they've been treated. There's got to be something they can do to stop these little buggers.
Just what we needed, a brand new and very prolific sort of blood sucker.
I wonder what diseases this one spreads?
No doubt. Trump is enough, we don't need anymore.
lol
Hopefully at least not Lyme. It sounds like this tick as potential to spread everywhere, and currently Lyme is highly localized to the East.
I'm wondering how one tick got from Japan to Central NJ to start this invasion. A traveler? In merchandise? Who can tell, but it's here now.
GloFish. The GloFish is a patented and trademarked brand of genetically engineered fluorescent fish. A variety of different GloFish are currently on the market. Zebrafish were the first GloFish available in pet stores, and are now sold in bright red, green, orange-yellow, blue, and purple fluorescent colors
Female self spreading ticks that don't need to breed.... Have scientists been playing with genetics again??? I swear every one of these "new species discovered" seems just like some wierdo scientists letting their new creation onto the world.
From now on every time a new species is discovered I want you to think "Is this one genetic?" (as in science created)
https://www.glofish.com/about/glofish-science/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish
Why would anyone develop a new sort of tick?
No one invented this tick.
Why would anyone develop a new sort of tick?
Let's instead make a chicken that lays zillions of eggs that hatch without need for a rooster. Make them so they grow quickly and taste good.
A while back there was an effort made to develop a featherless chicken to eliminate the cost of plucking them. They almost succeeded but the result was a 'naked' chicken that required a near sterile and highly temperature controlled environment simply to have them live to slaughter age - the costs for providing that special environment far exceeded the costs of plucking normal chickens.
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