LFP 211: Livestock Farm Practice (0+1)

ABODES OF INSECTS

• Manure, filth, damp and dark corners, stagnant water etc. are all favourite breeding places of insects.
• Eggs of ticks and mites deposited in cracks and crevices in the walls, floors and woodwork of the animal houses or on pastures, hatch out and the larvae feed on animals during certain duration of their life cycles.
• Mites also live on skin of animals, though; some may burrow into the skin.
• Lice and fleas are more or less host specific and they live on animals. Thus, any control measure should be aimed at clearing the abodes of arthropod parasites as well as ridding the animals and animal surroundings of them.