Arthropods in culture astrological signs of the zodiac. Culture consists of the social behaviour and norms found in human societies and transmitted through social learning. Cultural universals in all human societies include expressive forms like art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies like tool usage, cooking, shelter, and clothing. The concept of material culture covers physical expressions such as technology, architecture and art, whereas immaterial culture includes principles of social organization, mythology, philosophy, literature, and science. This article describes the roles played by arthropods in human culture. The arthropods are a phylum of animals with jointed legs; they include the insects, arachnids such
Ticks of domestic animals or more, respectively, whilst questing on the vegetation. Thus it is usually not practical to control them by pasture management. In addition, farmers find the priority to provide their stock with good feed often conflicts with the regimes for pasture rotation for tick control. Ticks affecting dogs and other companion animals around private houses are reduced by clearing of vegetation and leaf litter, mowing grass short, and fencing out deer and other wild animals that bring in ticks. Compared to other arthropods of veterinary and medical importance most species of ticks are long-lived over their whole life-cycle. "Ixodes" species in