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Keywords: medical acarology, the study area and general sampling procedures, tick life cycle and season dynamics, host utilization, voles, mice, levels and patterns of tick infestations of small animals, tick-host-vegetation association. An overview is given of some of the results of a 4-year study on the vegetation, seasonal activity and host relationships of D. variabilis populations monitored in Nova Scotia, Canada.