Dermacentor variabilis “American dog tick”
Transmits tularemia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other spotted fever group rickettsioses
Hancock
Brooke Historical Distribution of D. variabilis by Ohio County – West Virginia (as of 04/24/15)
Marshall
Wetzel Monongalia
Tyler Marion Preston Taylor Jefferson Hampshire Harrison Wood Ritchie Barbour Grant Tucker Hardy
Wirt Lewis Gilmer
Randolph
Mason Roane Braxton Pendleton
Putnam Clay Webster Cabell Kanawha Pocahontas Nicholas Lincoln Wayne
Boone Fayette Greenbrier
Logan Raleigh
Wyoming Monroe
Mercer McDowell Ixodes scapularis “Deer tick” or “Blacklegged tick”
Transmits Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Powassan encephalitis
Hancock
Brooke Historical Distribution of I. scapularis by Ohio County – West Virginia (as of 04/24/15)
Marshall
Wetzel Monongalia
Marion Tyler Preston
Taylor Jefferson Harrison Hampshire
Wood Ritchie Barbour Grant Tucker Hardy
Wirt Lewis Gilmer
Randolph
Mason Roane Braxton Pendleton
Putnam Clay Webster Cabell Kanawha Pocahontas Nicholas Lincoln Wayne
Boone Fayette Greenbrier
Logan Raleigh
Wyoming Monroe
Mercer McDowell Ambloymma americanum “Lone star tick”
Transmits ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and STARI
Hancock
Brooke Historical Distribution A. americanum by Ohio County – West Virginia (as of 04/24/15)
Marshall
Wetzel Monongalia
Marion Tyler Preston
Taylor Jefferson Harrison Hampshire
Wood Ritchie Barbour Grant Tucker Hardy
Wirt Lewis Gilmer
Randolph
Mason Roane Braxton Pendleton
Putnam Clay Webster Cabell Kanawha Pocahontas Nicholas Lincoln Wayne
Boone Fayette Greenbrier
Logan Raleigh
Wyoming Monroe
Mercer McDowell Ixodes cookei “Groundhog tick”
Transmits Powassan encephalitis
Hancock
Brooke Historical Distribution of I. cookei by Ohio County – West Virginia (as of 04/24/15)
Marshall
Wetzel Monongalia
Marion Tyler Preston
Taylor Jefferson Harrison Hampshire
Wood Ritchie Barbour Grant Tucker Hardy
Wirt Lewis Gilmer
Randolph
Mason Roane Braxton Pendleton
Putnam Clay Webster Cabell Kanawha Pocahontas Nicholas Lincoln Wayne
Boone Fayette Greenbrier
Logan Raleigh
Wyoming Monroe
Mercer McDowell Amblyomma maculatum “Gulf coast tick”
Transmits spotted fever group rickettsioses
Hancock
Brooke Historical Distribution of A. maculatum by Ohio County – West Virginia (as of 04/24/15)
Marshall
Wetzel Monongalia
Marion Tyler Preston
Taylor Jefferson Harrison Hampshire
Wood Ritchie Barbour Grant Tucker Hardy
Wirt Lewis Gilmer
Randolph
Mason Roane Braxton Pendleton
Putnam Clay Webster Cabell Kanawha Pocahontas Nicholas Lincoln Wayne
Boone Fayette Greenbrier
Logan Raleigh
Wyoming Monroe
Mercer McDowell