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External Parasites

External Parasites. Lone Star Tick. Symptoms- Infestations usually are found by a visual inspection. Rubbing on objects and also they way they carry themselves let you know. Control- Pesticide sprays, dips dust, and self treatment is most effective. Gulf Coast Tick.

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External Parasites

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  1. External Parasites

  2. Lone Star Tick • Symptoms- Infestations usually are found by a visual inspection. Rubbing on objects and also they way they carry themselves let you know. • Control- Pesticide sprays, dips dust, and self treatment is most effective.

  3. Gulf Coast Tick • Symptoms- Infestations usually are found by a visual inspection. Rubbing on objects and also they way they carry themselves let you know. • Control- Pesticide sprays, dips dust, and self treatment is most effective.

  4. Spinose Ear Tick • Symptoms- Infestations usually are found by a visual inspection. Rubbing on objects and also they way they carry themselves let you know. • Control- Pesticide sprays, dips dust, and self treatment is most effective.

  5. Louse • Symptoms- primary symptoms of lice infestations are rough hair coats, rubbing, scratching. • Control- Pesticide sprays, dips dust, and self treatment is most effective.

  6. Mite • Symptoms- hair is falling out and crusty, dry, and red skin. • Control- Chemically controlled

  7. Blowfly (Screwworm) • Symptoms- Unpleasant odor, enlargement of the wound, seepage of blood serum from the wound. • Control- Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation produces sterile male flies and releases them to mate with females. The females only mate once their infertile eggs will not hatch breaking the life cycle.

  8. Heel Fly or Cattle Grub • Symptoms- Visible swelling once entered into the hosts back. • Control- Systemic insecticides before reaching the host’s back.

  9. Horn Fly • Symptoms- They are easily seen. Unless controlled they will cover the neck and back of cattle. • Control- chemical control, feed additives, ear tags, containing insecticides.

  10. Stable fly • Symptoms- easily seen, and infestations around empty lots and barns. • Control- Chemical sprays, dust, and feed additives.

  11. Horsefly • Symptoms- easily seen, and infestations around empty lots and barns. • Control- Chemical sprays, dust, and feed additives.

  12. Blow Fly • Symptoms- easily seen, and infestations around empty lots and barns. • Control- Chemical sprays, dust, and feed additives.

  13. House Fly • Symptoms- easily seen, and infestations around empty lots and barns. • Control- Chemical sprays, dust, and feed additives.

  14. Horse Bot • Symptoms- Obvious irritation and annoyance it causes horses. • Control- Worming only method.

  15. Internal Parasites

  16. Roundworm • Symptoms- Paleness in the gums and eyes. Infested animals will have a dull hair, unthrifty appearance, and scours. Server infestations will be persistent scouring, weight loss, anemia, prostration, and death. • Control- Sanitation, pasture rotation, Chemical dewormers, drenches, injectable wormers, feed and water additives, and liquid wormers.

  17. Strongyle (Bloodworm) • Symptoms- anemia, paleness of gums, and eyes. Weight loss, rough coats, scouring, loss of appetite, colic, and prostration. • Control- sanitation and pasture rotation. Chemical workers, blouses, drenches, injectable, feed and water additives.

  18. Ascarid • Symptoms- weight loss, dull hair, unthriftiness, and colic. • Control- pasture rotation, sanitation, and worming.

  19. Pinworm • Symptoms- tail rubbing and white scaly deposits around anus. • Control- worming, sanitation around barns and lots.

  20. Habronema • Symptoms- seepy, hard healing, crusty sore. • Control- worming, and sanitation of stable area.

  21. Lungworm • Symptoms- coughing, fatal causes that animal breathes with its mouth open and tongue protruding. The animal unable to move, develops fever, does not eat or drink, becomes gaunt. • Control- sanitation and pasture rotation.

  22. Tapeworm • Symptoms- weight loss, emaciation, diarrhea, and unthriftiness. • Control- chemicals

  23. Beef or Pork Tapeworm • Symptoms- no visible symptoms in animal until slaughtered. • Control- people are the host for the parasite so only control is the cleanliness of people.

  24. Fluke • Symptoms- weight loss, anemia, and death. • Control- rotation of pastures, use of water through troughs, and chemical treatment.

  25. Bibliography http://ens-newswire.com/ens/pics20/cattle.jpg http://insects.tamu.edu/feature/tick www.extension.iastate.edu http://pesticides.hawaii.edu/studypackets/animal.html http://www.livingwithbugs.com/Images/body-louse.jpg www.thebestlinks.com http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/flies/screwworm/index.shtml http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_entm/extension/KIN/KIN_2003/kin-19/03ksne19.htm http://www.nebkan.com/hornfly.html http://www.horsehealthdewormer.com/images/bots.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/tr33lo/566058025/ http://www.ovex.co.uk/Images/roundworm.jpg http://www.ecmagazine.net/ecSummer06/ecsumwebphotos/Habronema_Andrzejp.jpg http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/FFP/acknowledge.htm

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