Table 1.
Number of each rodent species captured, number of rodents infested with ticks, mean weight and standard error of each rodent species, and each rodent species captured categorized by sex and age for rodent hosts (Peromyscus leucopus, Sigmodon hispidus, Peromyscus maniculatus, Microtus pinetorum, and Ochrotomys nuttalli) captured at the Hobart Ames Plantation, Fayette and Hardeman counties, Tennessee.
| Rodent species | No. Captured | No. Infested |
Host Weight (grams) | No. Males | No. Females | No. Adults |
No. Subadults |
Infested adults | Infested subadults |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. hispidus | 75 | 23 | 83.77 ± 5.308 | 40 | 34 | 53 | 22 | 17 | 6 |
| P. leucopus | 148 | 58 | 16.35 ± 0.847 | 86 | 61 | 141 | 7 | 53 | 5 |
| P. maniculatus | 34 | 9 | 14.90 ± 0.382 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| M. pinetorum | 16 | 6 | 20.93 ± 0.835 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| O. nuttalli | 7 | 4 | 13.78 ± 0.406 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 281 | 100 | 35.07 ± 2.354 | 145 | 133 | 250 | 30 | 88 | 12 |
a sex was not recorded on one specimen.