Deer, one of the major hosts for black-legged ticks, were overhunted and dwindled to a few small, scattered populations. The Lyme disease debate: host Biodiversity and Human Disease Risk Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterium that has been reported in robins, songbirds, cardinals, thrushes, sparro...
Ten years of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) in Manitoba, CanadaL. Robbin Lindsay
In contrast to deer, the ears and neck of horses were largely devoid of blacklegged ticks, and 84% of the females were attached either on the chest, in the axillae of the fore and rear legs, or under the jawbone. The restricted attachment of female blacklegged ticks to ventral body ...
Number of Black-Legged Ticks Increasing in ConnecticutNEW HAVEN » The number of black-legged ticks, also known as deerticks, that carry Lyme disease...Stannard, Ed
The disease is caused byBorrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted among hosts and humans, primarily by blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). The ~25B.burgdorferigenotypes, based on genotypic variation of their outer surface protein C (ospC), can be phenotypically separated as strains that primarily ...
I tested novel, controlled-release formulations of IR3535, at 10% in lotion and at 20% in pump spray and aerosol, against mosquitoes in the field and blacklegged ticks in the laboratory. These were also the first studies to be conducted under the authority of the U.S. Environmental ...
In all cases, the reported distribution of pathogens is significantly narrower than the known range of the blacklegged ticks that spread them. But Foster and colleagues caution, however, that the true presence of the pathogens is likely much wider than detected. ...
Differential burdens of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) on sympatric rodent hostsBrown, Jessica E.Tiffin, Hannah S.Pagac, AlexandraPoh, Karen C.Evans, Jesse R.Miller, Taylor M.Herrin, Brian H.Tomlinson, TreySutherland, CameronMachtinger, Erika T....
Blacklegged ticks, Say, are of particular interest as they transmit the largest array of tick-borne pathogens to humans in the northeast. Landscape features, e.g., urbanization and reforestation, are considered important contributors to range expansion, however, these factors remain poorly understood...
Ticks that avoid ant semiochemicals鈥攁s indicators of ant presence鈥攚ould reduce predation risk by ants. We tested the hypotheses that: (i) chemical deposits from the thatching ant Formica oreas deter blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis , (ii) deterrent semiochemicals originate from the ants' ...