[Methods for suppressing the population count of pasture ixodid ticks]

The current methods of suppressing the quantity of Ixodes ticks in pasture populations are reviewed. For one- and two-host monoxenous [correction of monogostal] species the methods used were treatment of ticks during their parasitic existence on the cattle (washing in baths, spraying with acaricides, use of ear marks and collars, soaking with acaricides, selection of tick-resistant cattle species, administration of avermectins to the host) and separation of cattle and ticks by changing pastures. For two- and three-host polyxenous [correction of polxgostal] tick species the methods used were treatment of the affected area with acaricides (in the USSR anti-tick area treatments have been practically stopped), separation of cattle and ticks (pasture of cattle on cultural pastures, keeping the cattle in stables), changes of ecological conditions of tick habitation.