Heart worms
By: Slade Pate
Where heart worms live.
Heart worms live in animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, wolves, coyotes, ferrets, and sea lions and in some rare cases humans.
How they feed.
Heart worms feed off of the blood.
How heart worms reproduce.
The female heart worm release their children, microfilariae into cats or dogs.
The hosts of choice.
They are: dogs, cats, foxes, wolves, coyotes, ferrets, and sea lions and in some rare cases humans.
Special adaptations.
It has no special adaptations.
Length of heart worm.
Babies are microscopic. Female heart worms grow to 10-16 inches in length and the males are a little more than half that length.
The Heart worm life cycle.
The mosquito bites the infected dog or cat and then bites the healthy dog or cat and gives them heart worm.
Heart worm incidence that was in the US in 2007
Dark red: the most heart worm incidents. White: the least heart worm incidents.
Heart Worm
An infected heart with heart worms in it.