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Various parasites such as lice, ticks, mites, aphides and chiggers attack untreated and unprotected animals and plants.
Northam's acid comments aside, however, Stoppard falls short of his Shakespeare In Love triumph, while John Barry's soundtrack merely ticks over.
The 228 markers used in the genome scan are represented with vertical ticks on the x-axis.
Typhus is caused by rickettsia, bacteria-like microorganisms transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as fleas, lice, and ticks.
A total of 60 white-footed mice yielded 16 species of mites, two species of ticks, two species of fleas, and one species of louse.
Many birds eat insects. Anis and Cattle Egret are well known for eating ticks from goats and cattle.
His background ticks all the right boxes for working for the royals, not least working closely with the UN special envoy in Sarajevo.
A thorough brushing will dislodge ticks picked up during walkies, they add.
While most of these creepy crawlers have beneficial characteristics, ticks truly deserve to be given a wide berth.
Free-range chickens, turkeys and guineas will feed on ticks and other pests, such as grasshoppers, Japanese beetles and mosquitoes.
In the tear-down culture in which we engorge ourselves like ticks bloated on blood, I guess he truly is the King.
As a financier associated with the 1990s and American based in London, Browder ticks a convenient amount of boxes for the Kremlin.
Mites and ticks which feed on vertebrate hair or blood often carry disease organisms, such as spirochete bacteria, responsible for relapsing fever and Lyme disease.
And meadow voles, by excluding white-footed mice from some habitats, may reduce the risk of Lyme disease, which is carried by ticks that feed off these mice.
These are not nuanced performances, with actorly ticks and tricks.
Wolves are often infested with a variety of arthropod exoparasites, including fleas, ticks, lice, and mites.
Time measures itself out in a series of diminishing peristaltic ticks, countdowning slowly towards the miracle of Ignition.
In the area, there were two small primary schools, a general store, and a dipping tank to rid the cattle of ticks and diseases.
He spoke languidly, and only those few words, like a watch with an inelastic spring, that just ticks a moment or two and stops again.
Department of Agriculture inspectors look for horses and livestock that stray across the border carrying ticks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mites and ticks are classified with the spiders as degenerate relatives of arachnoid stock.
These districts were found to be salubrious and free from ticks and mosquitoes.
The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.
This scrumptious salad ticks all the boxes when it comes to satisfaction.
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