Cattle tick (Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries)

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Cattle tick

The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, is a serious economic pest of Queensland's cattle industry. If left unchecked, this external parasite can significantly reduce cattle live-weight gain and milk production. It is also responsible for transmitting three blood-borne tick fever organisms, which cause sickness and death in cattle. Cattle ticks can also infest other species such as sheep, horses, goats, camels, alpacas, llamas, vicunas, guanacos and deer.

Page maintained by Malcolm Macleod
Last updated 30 January 2009

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