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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: Harvester]
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04/01/23 12:59 PM
04/01/23 12:59 PM
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beaverpeeler
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It sure looks like ticks, but I'm surprised to see such a large number in one small area. Did you look closely to see if they were actual ticks or jut some kind of wart like growth?
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: Harvester]
#7835520
04/01/23 01:45 PM
04/01/23 01:45 PM
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Is the above pic from a beaver?
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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: Harvester]
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04/03/23 04:58 PM
04/03/23 04:58 PM
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The Beav
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I've caught 1000s of beaver and never seen a tick on any of them. Fleas yes but ticks no.
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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: Harvester]
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04/03/23 08:33 PM
04/03/23 08:33 PM
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I posted last year about a beaver I caught in Chippewa County in April that was crawling with deer ticks on the back and neck most were embedded I couldn't even hardly get a comb through the fur. It seems like almost all Beaver have the small fleas and other assorted bugs on them at times. I caught my first beaver in 1967 and my last one was last week with many in between. The one I caught in Chippewa County is the only one I've ever seen with ticks on it. This was several years ago with a real mild spring in Wisconsin. When I got to the truck at that particular spot with the beaver I too was crawling with deer ticks just from walking 50 yards through the brush to my truck
Walt legge
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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: The Beav]
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04/16/23 09:34 PM
04/16/23 09:34 PM
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![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2023/04/full-2827-173266-a5eec9cb_ea40_4a6e_9dfb_3d1ac2d5b28b.png) They look like ticks to me but I don’t remember ever seeing this before one of the common ticks found on beaver is in the Genus [b] Ixodes banksi[/b] [/i]
a couple of years ago Boco got one beaver with some and sent it through to the Canadian Tick experts and they confirmed it.
Being in the Genus[i] Ixodes one should always be careful about some of the diseases they carry I've caught 1000s of beaver and never seen a tick on any of them. Fleas yes but ticks no. Beetles yes it should be https://bugguide.net/node/view/1468396
Last edited by Northof50; 04/16/23 09:38 PM.
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Re: Beaver ticks?
[Re: Harvester]
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04/30/23 12:09 PM
04/30/23 12:09 PM
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I have caught my second beaver in a lifetime of beaver trapping that was infested with Beaver ticks just like the one shown in the pictures on this thread. This beaver was also caught in Chippewa County Wisconsin in an area I normally do not trap but was doing damage control trapping. The beaver was around 35 lb and should have weighed considerably more but was very sickly looking and I did not skin it. I think it was a loan Traveler and have not caught any more at this site.
Walt legge
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Re: Beaver ticks?
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05/17/23 03:06 PM
05/17/23 03:06 PM
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The beaver I caught with ticks a couple years ago was the only beaver I had ever caught in near 50 years of trapping that had ticks. In the same year another trapper who has trapped as long as me and taken likely as many beaver,also caught his first and only tick infested beaver the same year. What is interesting is the tick beaver I caught came from a different watershed than the one He caught.
It is a result of global warming,no doubt with new species of parasites moving north with the milder,shorter winters now.Limes (Tick bourne disease) has been moving north last few years also,itis now in Sudbury,a couple hundred miles south of here.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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