TABLE 1.
Density of the various small mammals in the Petite Carmarque study site and of attached subadult I. ricinus ticks on hosts
| Mammals captured
|
Larval ticks
|
Nymphal ticks
|
Larva/nymph ratio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinda | Total no. | No./100 trap nights | % of hosts infested | Mean no./host | % of hosts infested | Mean no./host | |
| E. quercinus | 63 | 4.2 | 95 | 14.3 | 70 | 4.5 | 3 |
| A. sylvaticus | 62 | 4.5 | 89 | 15.1 | 28 | 0.3 | 50 |
| A. flavicollis | 31 | 2.2 | 86 | 11.9 | 0 | 0 | ∞ |
| C. glareolus | 20 | 1.3 | 75 | 6.9 | 7 | 0.1 | 69 |
| C. russula | 12 | 0.9 | 60 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | ∞ |
a
Eliomys quercinus, garden dormouse; Apodemus sylvaticus, wood mouse; Apodemus flavicollis, yellow-necked mouse; Clethrionomys glareolus, bank vole; Crocidura russula, greater white-toothed shrew.