Home›Species›Relationship to People›Disease VectorBrowse ByDisease VectorRelationship to people describes how a species interacts with human life, whether it has been domesticated, is farmed or commercially raised, is kept as a pet, is hunted or fished, acts as an agricultural or structural pest, carries disease as a vector, has become invasive outside its native range once introduced, or has no significant recorded interaction with people at all.Disease VectorConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Disease VectorFilter Results70 entriesCommon GroupAllApicomplexan Parasites (3)Barnacles (Cirripedia) (1)Birds Of Prey (Raptors) (1)Bryozoans (Moss Animals) (1)Copepods (1)Earthworms and Other Oligochaetes (1)Fleas And Lice (2)Flies (Diptera) (9)Gastropods (Snails And Slugs) (1)Gram-Negative Bacteria (1)Kinetoplastid Parasites (Trypanosomes and Leishmania) (3)Passerines (Songbirds) (2)Pathogenic And Parasitic Fungi (Human/Animal) (1)Roundworms (Nematoda) (5)Shorebirds (Waders) (1)Tapeworms (Cestoda) (1)Ticks And Mites (Acari) (16)True Bugs (Hemiptera) (6)Waterfowl (2)TaxonomyAllAcariformes (1)Anas (1)Anatidae (1)Anopheles (1)Apicomplexa (2)Arachnida (1)Arthropoda (2)Artiodactyla (1)Betaproteobacteria (1)Cestoda (1)Conepatus (1)Corvidae (1)Culicidae (1)Diptera (7)Eukarya (1)Eurotiomycetes (1)Falconiformes (1)Felis (1)Gastropoda (1)Hemiptera (3)Herpestidae (1)Hirundinidae (1)Hominidae (1)Insecta (3)Ixodidae (2)Mephitidae (1)Molossidae (1)Mustelidae (1)Nematoda (5)Oligochaeta (1)Parasitiformes (12)Rodentia (1)Spiralia (1)Tringa (1)Vespertilionidae (1)Vulpes (1)HabitatAllAlpine (1)Bog (2)Boreal Forest (7)Chaparral (7)Desert (8)Freshwater (2)Grassland (4)Kelp Forest (1)Lake (4)Open Ocean (1)Riparian Zone (1)River (6)Savanna (2)Temperate Coniferous Forest (1)Temperate Forest (8)Tropical Rainforest (4)Tundra (3)Wetlands (2)Conservation StatusAllCritically Endangered (1)Endangered (1)Least Concern (15)Not Evaluated (32)EcosystemAllArctic Tundra (2)Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (1)Doñana (1)Great Plains (1)Heath (1)Kalahari Desert (1)Kruger National Park (1)Lake Baikal (1)Lake Victoria (1)Okavango Delta (2)Pampas (1)Serengeti (1)Sumatran Lowland Rainforest (1)Everyday GroupAllApicomplexan Parasites (3)Barnacles (Cirripedia) (1)Birds Of Prey (Raptors) (1)Bryozoans (Moss Animals) (1)Copepods (1)Earthworms and Other Oligochaetes (1)Fleas And Lice (2)Flies (Diptera) (9)Gastropods (Snails And Slugs) (1)Gram-Negative Bacteria (1)Kinetoplastid Parasites (Trypanosomes and Leishmania) (3)Passerines (Songbirds) (2)Pathogenic And Parasitic Fungi (Human/Animal) (1)Roundworms (Nematoda) (5)Shorebirds (Waders) (1)Tapeworms (Cestoda) (1)Ticks And Mites (Acari) (16)True Bugs (Hemiptera) (6)Waterfowl (2)DietAllCarnivore (8)Detritivore or Scavenger (2)Filter Feeder (1)Frugivore (1)Herbivore (8)Insectivore (6)Omnivore (5)Parasitic (37)System (Realm)AllFreshwater (14)Marine (12)Terrestrial (55)Terrestrial and Freshwater (1)Living or ExtinctAllYes (38)Where It LivesAllAfrica (21)Albania (3)Algeria (6)Andorra (2)Angola (1)Antigua and Barbuda (2)Argentina (6)Armenia (1)Asia (1)Australia (12)Austria (4)Azerbaijan (3)Bahamas (2)Bahrain (2)Bangladesh (2)Barbados (3)Belarus (3)Belgium (20)Belize (4)Bhutan (1)Bolivia (5)Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)Botswana (4)Brazil (11)Brunei (2)Bulgaria (5)Burkina Faso (1)Burundi (1)Cabo Verde (1)Cameroon (2)Canada (6)Central Africa (1)Central African Republic (2)Central America (1)Chile (4)China (9)Colombia (9)Costa Rica (5)Cote d'Ivoire (2)Croatia (3)Cuba (4)Cyprus (6)Czechia (6)Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)Denmark (29)Djibouti (2)Dominica (3)Dominican Republic (5)Ecuador (10)Egypt (3)Equatorial Guinea (1)Eritrea (2)Estonia (3)Eswatini (2)Ethiopia (1)Federated States of Micronesia (1)Fiji (3)Finland (4)France (10)Gabon (1)Gambia (1)Georgia (4)Germany (5)Ghana (2)Greece (4)Grenada (2)Guatemala (4)Guinea (2)Guinea-Bissau (1)Guyana (3)Haiti (1)Honduras (2)Hungary (2)Iceland (3)India (4)Indonesia (2)Iran (3)Iraq (3)Ireland (6)Israel (3)Italy (4)Japan (5)Kazakhstan (1)Kenya (3)Kyrgyzstan (1)Laos (2)Latvia (2)Lesotho (1)Libya (1)Liechtenstein (2)Lithuania (2)Luxembourg (9)Madagascar (2)Malaysia (1)Maldives (1)Malta (1)Marshall Islands (1)Mauritius (1)Mexico (10)Moldova (2)Mongolia (1)Montenegro (2)Morocco (1)Mozambique (7)Myanmar (1)Namibia (3)Netherlands (10)New Zealand (4)Nicaragua (2)Nigeria (2)North America (30)Norway (31)Oman (1)Pakistan (1)Palestine (1)Paraguay (2)Peru (3)Poland (8)Portugal (13)Qatar (1)Republic of the Congo (1)Romania (4)Russia (7)Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)Saint Lucia (3)Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)Samoa (1)Saudi Arabia (1)Serbia (4)Seychelles (1)Slovakia (2)Slovenia (2)South Africa (8)South America (11)South Asia (17)South Korea (3)Spain (12)Sri Lanka (1)Suriname (2)Sweden (26)Switzerland (5)Taiwan (5)Tanzania (1)Thailand (2)The Arctic (1)Timor-Leste (1)Tonga (1)Trinidad and Tobago (1)Tunisia (1)Turkey (3)Tuvalu (1)Ukraine (7)United Arab Emirates (2)United Kingdom (8)United States (29)Uruguay (3)Uzbekistan (1)Vanuatu (2)Venezuela (7)Vietnam (2)West Africa (1)Yemen (1)Zimbabwe (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 70American Dog TickDisease VectorAmerican Hog-nosed SkunkDisease VectorAnopheles gambiaeDisease VectorAphidDisease VectorArgas PersicusDisease VectorAscaris LumbricoidesDisease VectorAsian Tiger MosquitoDisease VectorAssassin BugDisease VectorBabesiaDisease VectorBarn SwallowDisease VectorBlack FlyDisease VectorBlacklegged TickDisease VectorBlue JayDisease VectorBrown Dog TickDisease VectorBryozoanDisease VectorCascade red foxDisease VectorCastor Bean TickDisease VectorCommon WarthogDisease VectorCopepodDisease VectorCrab Hacker BarnacleDisease VectorCulex pipiensDisease VectorDeer TickDisease VectorEurasian tealDisease VectorEuropean BadgerDisease VectorEuropean WildcatDisease VectorFleaDisease VectorGiant African Land SnailDisease VectorGulf Coast TickDisease VectorHooded SkunkDisease VectorHorse FlyDisease 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cygnus)Disease VectorWood sandpiperDisease VectorWood TickDisease VectorWuchereria BancroftiDisease VectorYellow Fever MosquitoDisease VectorConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 3,220 connections.SourcesPolar Bear (Ursus maritimus) (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceContains: Polar BearView the SourceLion (Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology InstituteContains: African LionView the SourceBeaver (Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, National Park Service)National Park ServiceContains: BeaverView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. 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