Worms

• About worms

  • Types of worms
  • Cost of worms
  • Worm life cycles and life stages
    • Roundworm: gastro-intestinal nematode
    • Roundworm: lungworm
    • Cattle tapeworm
    • Larval tapeworm
    • Fluke
  • Worms on pasture
  • Signs of worms

• Roundworms

  • Barber's pole worm: Haemonchus placei, Haemonchus contortus
  • Brown stomach worm: Ostertagia ostertagi
  • Small intestinal worm: Cooperia oncophora / Cooperia pectinata / Cooperia punctata
  • Stomach hair worm: Trichostrongylus axei
  • Black scour worm: Trichostrongylus species
  • Thin-necked intestinal worm: Nematodirus
  • Lungworm: Dictyocaulus viviparus
  • Hookworm: Bunostomum phlebotomum
  • Nodule worm: Oesophagostomum radiatum
  • Large-mouthed bowel worm: Chabertia ovina
  • Threadworm: Strongyloides species
  • Whipworm: Trichuris species
  • Eye worm: Thelazia species
  • Onchocercosis: Onchocerca gutturosa (synonym Onchocerca lienalis), Onchocerca gibsoni, Onchocerca cebein
  • Other nematodes (large round worm: Ascaris spp. and gullet worm: Gongylonema spp.)

• Flukes

  • Liver fluke: Fasciola hepatica
  • Stomach fluke: Paramphistomum species and Calicophoron calicophorum

• Tapeworms

  • Intestinal tapeworm: Moniezia benedeni
  • Hydatid cysts: Echinococcus granulosus
  • Beef measles: cysts of Cysticercus bovis
  • Bladder worm: cysts of Cysticercus tenuicollis

• Other Internal parasites of cattle

  • Black scours: Coccidia
  • Crypto: Cryptosporidium
  • Neosporosis: Neospora caninum
  • Sarcocystis
  • Theileriosis
  • Tick fever
  • Tritrichomonas