ABSTRACT

The seasonal activity of populations of ticks during a one-year period has been studied in Antalya. The influence of seasonal features on the frequency of tick population was investigated. For a one-year period, 3338 ticks were collected monthly from the goats. They were typed and all three life stages were detected. The following species were detected: 1537 (46.0%) Rhipicephalus bursa, 978 (29.3%) Ixodes ricinus, 608 (18.2%) Dermacentor marginatus, 203 (6.0%) Haemaphysalis parva and 12 (0.5%) Haemaphysalis sulcata. One Borrelia burgdorferi was seen by immunofluorescence assay in 93 Ixodes ricinus that had been dissected.