The Brown Dog Tick is the most prevalent tick in Arizona. It is commonly found in yards, kennels, and in homes-in fact, it can complete the whole life cycle while living indoors. While this tick can rapidly multiply into a huge problem, it has not been found to carry or transmit any human diseases. The Brown Dog Tick is rather small, about 1/8th inch in size, and reddish-brown in color. It can swell up to a half inch in size when engorged after feeding. As the name suggests, the tick's main host is dogs, but it can in rarer cases affect humans and other mammals.

Life Cycle:

An adult Brown Dog Tick will feed upon the host for about a week, then drop off and find a place to lay eggs. The female can lay up to 5,000 eggs over a period of up to two weeks, and their development is widely dependent upon temperature. They can tolerate a wide variety of conditions as they develop. The adult female then dies after finishing laying the eggs. Newly hatched ticks require a blood meal between each stage of development- larva, nymph, and adult. At each stage the tick is getting larger in size. The cycle can be completed in around two months in warmer weather, but each stage can be as much as five months long.

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