{"id":1792,"date":"2021-08-24T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:37:34","slug":"fowl-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Fowl Ticks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fowl or poultry tick (<em>Argas persicus<\/em>) was newly detected in Delaware at a location in Kent County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This species, which is native to Asia but widely distributed around the world, is considered a major pest of poultry and linked to numerous avian health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the first record of a soft tick (family Argasidae) in the state, with all other documented species being hard ticks (family Ixodidae).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poultry keepers are advised to monitor for tick infestations and report them to Dr. Ashley Kennedy (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:ashley.kennedy@delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\">ashley.kennedy@delaware.gov<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5c\/Argas-persicus-female-dorsal-ventral.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Daktaridudu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fowl or poultry tick (Argas persicus) was newly detected in Delaware at a location in Kent County. This species, which is native to Asia but widely distributed around the world, is considered a major pest of poultry and linked to numerous avian health issues. This marks the first record of a soft tick (family Argasidae) in the state, with all other documented species being hard ticks (family Ixodidae). Poultry keepers are advised to monitor for tick infestations and report&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/?p=1792\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,48,74],"tags":[28,50,22],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invasive-action","category-invasive-species-awareness","category-invasivesinthenews","tag-delaware","tag-invasive-insects","tag-invasive-species"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delawareinvasives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}