Monitorización de garrapatas de la vegetación en Asturias: Fichas 2023

Abstract

THE DOCUMENT CONTAINS SHEETS WITH FIELD AND LABORATORY DATA OBTAINED FROM EACH DAY OF MONITORING THE PRESENCE AND ABUNDANCE OF IXODID TICKS IN THE VEGETATION OF DIFFERENT AREAS OF ASTURIAS. The technique used for tick collection was the dragging method with a piece of light-colored cloth (Sonenshine, 1993). FIELD DATA include, among others: (1) GPS coordinates and satellite and photographic images of the sampled routes, (2) date, time of sampling and duration of sampling, (3) weather conditions, (4) type of vegetation and its development, (5) presence, or signs of presence, of people and domestic or wild animals. Morphological IDENTIFICATION DATA of the captured ticks, obtained using a stereoscopic magnifying glass and different identification keys, included counting specimens by genus, species, sex and stage. Based on the distance the cloth was trawled, the surface area of the cloth, and the number of specimens collected, the TICK ABUNDANCE INDEX was estimated for each route.