Ticks are the most efficient vectors of vector borne diseases after mosquitos. Global and climatic change had increased the spread of these arthropods and the pathogens that they transmit over the world. The relevance of active surveillance of vectors as well as diseases on the animal and human hosts is fundamental for the study of disease epidemiology and hence, prevention. A key for active surveillance of tick borne diseases is tick sampling and identification in hosts but also in the environment. Techniques for environmental sampling of ticks are dragging sampling, which consist on dragging ...