[5] The only human habitats the tick can enter are places in poor condition.

[4] When the tick is infected by B. crocidurae, the disease affects its genetic organ, the testes in males and the ovaries in females.

The tick transmits the African swine fever virus only in Spain and Portugal.

Small mammals are the most common hosts;[9] this species rarely bites humans, preferring other vertebrates.

Some strains of entomopathogenic fungi have been found to be effective against this tick and others in the related genus Ornithodoros in a study which concluded the fungi could be used as biocontrol agents for argasid ticks;[11] the name of this is called hyperparasitism.