The few opossums caught in summer were thin and appeared to be suffering from infestations of ectoparasites, especially chiggers (Eutrombicula alfreddugesi) and ticks (Dermacentor variabilis).
Most of the opossums caught in summer and early fall had eye infections, and all of them were infested with ticks (Dermacentor variabilis).
Sometimes ticks were attached in dense clusters of several dozen on the animal's ears and scattered over other parts of the body.
DEATH WILL MAKE CLEAR What in the night says the clock that ticks time to eternity, Swimmer of waves of your thought that are dark waves and deep?
The Ixodidae comprise the ticks which attach themselves to cattle, hogs, and man, and are not at all uncommon objects.
The most anomalous of the Diptera are the Forest-flies and Sheep-ticks (Hippoboscidae).
Closely allied to these are the Bat-ticks (Nycteribidae), which possess neither wings nor balancers, and remind one strongly of spiders.
Bungalows are more carefully built to resist white ants, drainage and cleanliness prevent mosquitoes and ticks from multiplying, while snakes and leeches avoid cultivated, occupied ground.
Ticks are also an intolerable nuisance; they are exceedingly minute, and burrow under the skin.
Thus, for a single quarter of "British Mechanic" nearly two hundred ticks and nearly two hundred crossingticks had to be made in the book, if the work was properly done.
De ticks was wheat straw, though most of de time us chillun sleep on de floor.
We slept on straw ticksin summer, made from de wheat, and on feather beds in winter.
In one of the ears he counted no less than twenty ticks, and some of them were so deep down in the ear that when he was skinning the head he saw the ticks as he cut off the ears.
The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker's apartment; no longer measuring hours of mere heaviness.
Then, as the afternoon wore on, mosquitoes and ticksinnumerable buzzed about their heads.
Bees, wasps, and ticks innumerable sported hither and thither across their path; sometimes a flock of pigeons would clatter out of a tree, and high over their heads shrilled the mocking notes of parrots.
The fleas, lice, and mites were mounted on one inch by three inch glass slides; the ticks were preserved in 70 per cent alcohol.
Only three ticks (1 Dermacenter variabilis and 2 Ixodes sculptus) were found on the prairie vole.
After clipping the ticks migrate from the ewes to the lambs, which may become unthrifty and weak.
This has led to the eradication of the tick in certain sections of the South, by not allowing cattle access to a pasture or lot for a certain period, and by freeing the animals from ticks by hand-picking, dipping and smearing.
Thus the soldiers entered the box cars with their bed ticks as a mattress to recline on the floor of the car.
Sleeping quarters at Camp La Courtine contained bunks made of two-inch plank, on which the Americans used their bed-ticks filled with straw.
Bed ticks were not emptied of their straw before leaving camp.
Whoever it is, simply gets up there somehow, and ticks one wire against the other--and of course the instruments inside click as they are alternately cut off and cut on, and the rest of the line is not affected!
What possible difference can there be between the ticks made over a telegraph wire by one distant operator, and those made by another?
The hawk-ticks exterminate them as readily as wimples do moles.
The only thing to remember is that then you have the hawk-ticks on hand, and they float around the ceiling, and pounce down, and hide in your ears.
The ticks that are the host of the spirillum, the actual cause of the disease, live in the soft earth on the floor of native huts at the junction of the vertical cane rods and the soil.
More from fever and dysentery, from biting flies, from ticks and crawling beasts have we suffered than from the bullets of the enemy.
If I don't get my eggs before this watch ticks twenty, there'll be another waiter in heaven.
We considered ourselves peculiarly fortunate when we could find the shade of a tree extending some distance on to the naked sands of the river-bed, for then the ticks were less numerous.
Another juvenile taken July 1 in the same region was infested with small patches of red seed ticksaround the anus, anterior to the genital opening, on the belly, on the thigh, and at the base of one ear.
An immature male taken August 8 near Little Girl's Point had a considerable infestation of seedticks on the posterior lobes of both ears.
Our beds in our cabin was corded jus' lak dem up at de big house, but us slept on straw ticks and, let me tell you, dey sho slept good atter a hard days's wuk.
Suggin sacks was sewed together to make our mattress ticks and dem ticks was filled wid straw.
Doors was made out of rough planks, beds was rough home-made frames nailed to de side of de cabins, and mattresses was coarse, home-wove ticks filled wid wheat straw.
For mattresses, de 'omans put wheat straw in ticks made out of coarse cloth wove right dar on de plantation, and de pillows was made de same way.
The buffaloes and oxen are relieved of ticks by the crows which rest on their backs as they browse, and free them from these pests.
Spiders Strange nets of the wood spiders The mygale Birds killed by it Olios Taprobanius The galeodes Gregarious spiders Ticks Mites.
Ticks are to be classed among the intolerable nuisances to the Ceylon traveller.
This practice has a good effect, in preventing or removing cutaneous disorders, and destroyingticks or other vermin.
For lambs, this liquor should be diluted, but yet left strong enough to kill ticks in one or two minutes, which may be ascertained by experiment.
Carbolic soap is an excellent thing to wash both dogs and horses with, as it not only keeps away flies and ticks from the skin, which, is constantly rubbed off by incessant scratching, but helps to heal the tendency to a sore place.
As yet he has brought back from these forbidden raids nothing more than a few ticks and millions of burs.
The ticks that I mentioned just now, are little insects no bigger than a pin's head when they first fasten on to you, but soon become swollen with blood until larger than a pea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ticks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
