The tick is called the longhorned or bush tick, and its scientific name is Haemaphysalis longicornis. It is native to China, Japan, and Korea, and it's an invasive species and a major livestock pest in Australia and New Zealand.
Hundreds of the arachnids can attach themselves to a single animal, and in rare cases can consume so much blood it causes anemia or even fatalities in cattle, which is called exsanguination.
The ticks were first seen in the United States in New Jersey on Aug. 1, 2017, when a woman reported to the Hunterdon County Department of Health that her pet sheep was covered in hundreds, maybe thousands of the ticks. The woman, who first noticed them when she was shearing her sheep, also had the ticks on her clothing.
The sheep's paddock was so infested with ticks that they crawled on the health investigators' pants as soon as they stepped inside. The good news is that the woman was not bitten by =read more
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