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Ticks have strong reproductive capabilities, they can bear 2000-20000 eggs at once. However, due to their preying style of waiting for the target to appear. When they are outdoors, only when animals pass by that they can it be possible for them to jump from the leaves to the bodies of the animals. Therefore, most of the ticks cannot survive due to not capable of finding hosts to suck blood from.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Arthropods
Class
Arachnids
Order
Ticks
Family
Hard ticks
Genus
Bont ticks
Species
Gulf coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum)
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