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Fever Ticks
Floron C. Faries, Jr., DVM, MSProfessor and Extension Program Leader for Veterinary Medicine
Texas AgriLife Extension ServiceTexas A&M System
One Host Ticks
Cattle Horses White-tailed deer, elk, Nilgai, red deer Not sheep, goats, swine, dogs
Tick Stages – Eggs, Larvae, Nymphs, Adults
Permanent Fever Tick Quarantine Zone
200 yards to 6 miles wide 500 miles along Rio Grande Del Rio to Brownsville 8 counties
Val Verde Kinney Maverick Webb Zapata Starr Hildalgo Cameron
Boophilus microplus 1986
Boophilus microplus 1994
Boophilus annulatus 1986
Boophilus annulatus 1994
Permanent Fever Tick Quarantine Zone (Red)Preventive Fever Tick Quarantine Area (Green)2007
Temporary Preventive Fever Tick Quarantine Area
2007 Expanded portions of Starr and Zapata
counties Small area of Jim Hogg county
2008 Expanded portions of Starr, Zapata, Webb and
Maverick counties Small areas of Jim Hogg and Dimmit counties
