Table 2.
Number of Ixodes spp. obtained from flagging vegetation and trapping 14 species groups of rodents in 11 sites in northern California. In addition, one I. soricis was found on a Sorex townsendi.
| Number of host individuals captured |
I. angustus |
I. auritulus | I. jellisoni | I. ochotonae | I. pacificus | I. sculptus |
I. Spinipalpis |
I. woodi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flag | N/A | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 249 | 1 | 19 | 0 |
| Sciurus carolinensis | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sciurus griseus | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Tamiasciurus douglasii | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spermophilus beecheyi | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Spermophilus beldingi | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Glaucomys sabrinus | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neotoma fuscipes | 185 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| Tamias ochrogenys | 206 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 128 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Tamias merriami | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tamias sonomae | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peromyscus spp. | 1134 | 40 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Myodes californicus | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Microtus californicus | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |