THE STORY OF THE CATTLE 

 FEVER TICK. 



ONE warm summer day an olive-green cattle fever 

 tick laid 4,000 tiny eggs in the grass on a 

 southern farm. These eggs were waxy brown in 

 color and were not much larger than a turnip seed. 

 Here is a picture of the tiny eggs: 



Tick eggs under magnify- 

 ing glass. 



These little eggs were kept warm by the sun. In 

 less than a month they hatched out into livery, 

 hungry seed ticks. Each seed tick was smaller than 

 the head of a pin. If you had looked at the/ie ticks 



