Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks

Fischhoff, Ilya R.; Keesing, Felicia; Pendleton, Jennifer; DePietro, Deanna; Teator, Marissa; Duerr, Shannon; Mowry, Stacy; Pfister, Ashley; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Ostfeld, Richard S.

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“…5-year windows) the pattern and probability of invasion based on landscape features and could be incorporated into a more proactive framework for managing the ongoing emergence of Lyme disease. This could include an 'early warning' system used to notify medical and public health professionals that there is an imminent risk for the local establishment and even environmental interventions to attempt to prevent it [64]. Future efforts should build upon and improve the utility of our model by using techniques (e.g.…”

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Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease

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Lyme disease, the most prevalent vector-borne disease in North America, is increasing in incidence and geographic distribution as the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis , spreads to new regions. We re-construct the spatial-temporal invasion of the tick and human disease in the Midwestern US, a major focus of Lyme disease transmission, from 1967 to 2018, to analyse the influence of spatial factors on the geographic spread. A regression model indicates that three spatial factors—proximity to a previously invaded county, forest cover and adjacency to a river—collectively predict tick occurrence. Validation of the predictive capability of this model correctly predicts counties invaded or uninvaded with 90.6% and 98.5% accuracy, respectively. Reported incidence increases in counties after the first report of the tick; based on this modelled relationship, we identify 31 counties where we suspect I. scapularis already occurs yet remains undetected. Finally, we apply the model to forecast tick establishment by 2021 and predict 42 additional counties where I. scapularis will probably be detected based upon historical drivers of geographic spread. Our findings leverage resources dedicated to tick and human disease reporting and provide the opportunity to take proactive steps (e.g. educational efforts) to prevent and limit transmission in areas of future geographic spread.

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Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease

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“…Entomopathogenic fungi have greater potential to reduce tick densities compared with other biological control agents like parasitic wasps, pathogenic nematodes, and generalist predators such as birds and beetles [ 2 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Mycoinsecticides and mycoacaricides containing entomopathogenic fungi as the active ingredient can be used to suppress arthropods of economic, medical, and veterinary importance when used as an augmentative biocontrol strategy within an integrated pest (tick) management (IPM/ITM) approach [ 11 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. Their development and use has been widely studied, with management success against numerous invasive and native arthropod pests and vectors of disease agents in forest, agricultural, and residential settings since the first documented field attempt using mass-produced fungi in 1888 [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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A Review of Commercial Metarhizium- and Beauveria-Based Biopesticides for the Biological Control of Ticks in the USA

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2022

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There is a need for the development of sustainable, nonchemical tick management strategies. Mycoacaricide and mycoinsecticide product development worldwide has focused primarily on fungi in the genera Beauveria (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae) and Metarhizium (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae). Microbial biopesticides containing entomopathogenic fungi have potential in tick management. However, despite considerable progress in the development of fungal biopesticides over the past 20 years, the establishment of commercial products available for use against ticks continues to be slow. We reviewed published scientific literature and compiled a comprehensive list of reports of the effectiveness of commercial biopesticides based on the fungal genera Metarhizium and Beauveria and registered for use in the USA against ixodid ticks under laboratory and field conditions. We also report on results when these biopesticides were used as a part of integrated tick management. Until efficacious fungus-based products become more available, tick management will rely primarily on synthetic chemical acaricides, with natural-product acaricides as the alternative.

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“…Recreational areas have been identified as high risk environments for exposure to infected ticks [44][45][46][47][48], particularly at woodland-lawn ecotones where tick densities are often the greatest [44,49]. In suburban residential yards, frequently cited risk factors for the acarological hazard include proximity to woodland, lack of fencing, log and brush piles in the yard, bird-feeders and pet ownership [42,44,[50][51][52], all of which may enhance the number of hosts and tick off-host survival.…”

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“…Deer, in particular, are key agents for structuring tick populations in urban parks and surrounding neighborhoods [46] due to their roles as reproductive hosts for adult ticks [76]. Differences in the host and habitat associations of different tick species may thus produce relationships between acarological hazard and habitat that varies across spatial scales [42,51,77,78], necessitating a combined focal and landscape-level approach.…”

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Risk of tick-borne pathogen spillover into urban yards in New York City

2022

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Background The incidence of tick-borne disease has increased dramatically in recent decades, with urban areas increasingly recognized as high-risk environments for exposure to infected ticks. Green spaces may play a key role in facilitating the invasion of ticks, hosts and pathogens into residential areas, particularly where they connect residential yards with larger natural areas (e.g. parks). However, the factors mediating tick distribution across heterogeneous urban landscapes remain poorly characterized. Methods Using generalized linear models in a multimodel inference framework, we determined the residential yard- and local landscape-level features associated with the presence of three tick species of current and growing public health importance in residential yards across Staten Island, a borough of New York City, in the state of New York, USA. Results The amount and configuration of canopy cover immediately surrounding residential yards was found to strongly predict the presence of Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum, but not that of Haemaphysalis longicornis. Within yards, we found a protective effect of fencing against I. scapularis and A. americanum, but not against H. longicornis. For all species, the presence of log and brush piles strongly increased the odds of finding ticks in yards. Conclusions The results highlight a considerable risk of tick exposure in residential yards in Staten Island and identify both yard- and landscape-level features associated with their distribution. In particular, the significance of log and brush piles for all three species supports recommendations for yard management as a means of reducing contact with ticks. Graphical Abstract

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Assessing Effectiveness of Recommended Residential Yard Management Measures Against Ticks

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Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease

Landscape features predict the current and forecast the future geographic spread of Lyme disease

A Review of Commercial Metarhizium- and Beauveria-Based Biopesticides for the Biological Control of Ticks in the USA

Risk of tick-borne pathogen spillover into urban yards in New York City

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