Invasive Cow-Killing Tick Continues To Spread Through The U.S.

Since its discovery in 2017, the invasive Asian longhorned ticks have continued to spread across the U.S., threatening livestock nationwide.

The invasive ticks reproduce rapidly, with females able to lay up to 2,000 eggs simultaneously, according to the USDA.

Though it most famously targets cows, just about all mammals and even birds are at risk of the Asian long-horned ticks sucking them dry.

"Some cattle get swarmed so fast they die of exsanguination—the ticks drain the cow’s blood so fast they die.”

The nightmarish Asian longhorned tick has invaded the U.S.—and it can reproduce without mating https://t.co/ZA1l4VMZKv pic.twitter.com/HAH9Qi5rfi

— Popular Science (@PopSci) July 11, 2019

Read more from the USDA here:

Distribution

ALHT is native to eastern China, Japan, the Russian Far
East and Korea. It is an introduced and established exotic
species in Australia, New Zealand and several island
nations in the Western Pacific Region. In late 2017, ALHT
was found in New Jersey, marking the first confirmed
detection of this pest in the United States. To date, ALHT
has been confirmed in the following States: Arkansas,
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland,
Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
The widespread establishment of a new tick species in
the United States is rare. After the 2017 detection, animal
health officials examined how and when the tick arrived in
the United States. It remains unknown how the ALHT first
entered the country, but it likely arrived here in or before
2010. Possible routes of entry include imports of domestic
pets, horses, or livestock or people unknowingly carrying
the tick back to the United States after traveling abroad.

Hosts

ALHT has been found feeding on a number of hosts,
including sheep, goats, dogs, cats, horses, cattle, chickens,
black bears, foxes (red and grey), coyotes, groundhogs,
striped skunks, white-tailed deer, elk, opossums, raccoons,
Canada geese, barred owls, great horned owls, brown
boobies, Peromyscus mice, and red-tailed hawks. The tick
has also been found on people.

It is recommended that farmers monitor their livestock and have them regularly checked for ticks to prevent them from being killed.

In 2021, a farmer contacted the Ohio State University after these invasive ticks killed three of their cows.

Read more here from the Washington Post:

Now, researchers are using the gruesome deaths of three cows in Ohio to sound the alarm about the parasitic arachnids.

In an analysis in the Journal of Medical Entomology, they tracked the state’s first known established colony of the brown ticks. In 2021, a farmer contacted Ohio State University researchers, reporting that three of his cows had died during a tick infestation. The cause was exsanguination, suffered as tens of thousands of the ticks attacked the cows, including an adult bull, and bled them to death.

Researchers went to the pasture and dragged a muslin cloth along the ground, using a lint roller to pick up the sesame seed-sized creatures, which balloon to the size of a pea when feeding on blood. They managed to gather 9,287 ticks in just 90 minutes.

Then, they tested 100 of the females for diseases. Eight had Anaplasma phagocytophilum, a tick-borne disease that can harm humans and animals. But the disease was not present in the surviving herd, and scientists concluded the cows had likely died of blood loss. The ticks have returned to the pasture despite pesticide treatment.

What is most frightening is the possibility of diseases being spread to humans from these invasive ticks.

Our lab recently detected Bourbon virus in H. longicornis! This invasive tick species has not been associated with viruses before in the USA. It is also first evidence of Bourbon virus in Virginia. Stay tuned for a full report and future updates! #VT #AsianLonghornedTick pic.twitter.com/0eWkWsbiSN

— Eastwood Lab – Vector-borne Disease Ecology (@LabEastwood) February 4, 2022

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