The '4-poster' passive topical treatment device to apply acaricide for controlling ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) feeding on white-tailed deer

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 588-594

  Pound, J Mathews ^a   Miller, J Allen ^a   George, John E ^a   Lemeilleur, Craig A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acaricide; Amblyomma americanum; Amitraz; Lone star tick; Self treatment

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMALS; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTICIDES; TICK CONTROL; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 0034218470     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-37.4.588     Document Type: Article

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