Table 2.

Overview of the distribution of the most frequently collected tick species from cats and dogs over the German federal states (number per tick species/% of total ticks)

	Dogs				Cats
	I. ricinus	D. reticulatus	I. hexagonus	Total	I. ricinus	D. reticulatus	I. hexagonus	Total
Baden-Württemberg	763/90.40%	42/4.98%	19/2.25%	824/97.63%	527/85.28%	1/0.16%	61/9.87%	589/95.31%
Bavaria	1,190/86.17%	151/10.93%	27/1.96%	1,368/99.06%	1,370/87.48%	1/0.06%	145/9.26%	1,516/96.81%
Berlin	70/67.31%	32/30.77%	0/0.00%	102/98.08%	61/96.83%	1/1.59%	0/0.00%	62/98.41%
Brandenburg	282/32.49%	552/63.59%	9/1.04%	843/97.12%	388/94.87%	0/0.00%	10/2.44%	398/97.31%
Bremen	93/92.08%	0/0.00%	6/5.94%	99/98.02%	30/90.91%	0/0.00%	3/9.09%	33/100%
Hamburg	35/94.59%	0/0.00%	0/0.00%	35/94.59%	24/100%	0/0.00%	0/0.00%	24/100%
Hesse	454/65.42%	223/32.13%	9/1.30%	686/98.85%	317/96.35%	2/0.61%	7/2.13%	326/99.09%
Lower Saxony	1,188/88.59%	104/7.76%	23/1.72%	1,315/98.06%	821/94.69%	0/0.00%	28/3.23%	849/97.92%
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	210/92.92%	13/5.75%	2/0.88%	225/99.56%	184/85.19%	0/0.00%	29/13.43%	213/98.61%
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,265/96.27%	13/0.99%	27/2.05%	1,305/99.32%	693/95.98%	1/0.14%	15/2.08%	709/98.20%
Rhineland-Palatinate	560/94.44%	25/4.22%	4/0.67%	589/99.33%	502/94.36%	2/0.38%	9/1.69%	513/96.43%
Saarland	136/90.67%	11/7.33%	0/0.00%	147/98.00%	113/89.68%	0/0.00%	11/8.73%	124/98.41%
Saxony	338/62.71%	185/34.32%	8/1.48%	531/98.52%	576/94.89%	2/0.33%	13/2.14%	591/97.36%
Saxony-Anhalt	166/30.07%	368/66.67%	8/1.45%	542/98.19%	253/91.34%	5/1.81%	18/6.50%	276/99.64%
Schleswig-Holstein	119/95.95%	0/0.00%	9/2.28%	388/98.23%	309/97.17%	0/0.00%	2/0.63%	311/97.80%
Thuringia	379/78.81%	28/18.54%	2/1.00%	149/98.68%	133/75.14%	0/0.00%	29/16.38%	162/91.53%
Total*	7,248/78.02%	1,747/18.81%	153/1.65%	9,148/98.47%	3,601/91.53%	15/0.22%	380/5.52%	6,696/97.27%

^*Percentages refer to the whole of Germany