Pest Organisms / Brown Dog Tick
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for Brown Dog Tick
The brown dog tick is a reddish-brown tick that piles up around dogs and is one of very few ticks able to finish its whole life cycle inside a house, which is as unwelcome as it sounds. Following dogs nearly everywhere, it is also the most broadly distributed tick on the planet. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN378 Living on dogs and around the home, it threatens both: it spreads several diseases to dogs and, in some regions, can pass Rocky Mountain spotted fever to people. Source: https://extension.umaine.edu/ticks/maine-ticks/brown-dog-tick-or-kennel-tick/