Questing behavior of adult Amblyomma americanum (L.) in a laboratory setting&lt;/p &gt;

Huang, Miranda; Jones, Abby Kimpton; Sabet, Afsoon; Masters, Jillian; Dearing, Natalie; Ward, Samuel; Goddard, Jerome

doi:10.11158/saa.26.12.9

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“…Increased carbon in litter material was associated with a decrease in A. americanum abundance. Immature and adult ticks often search for hosts higher up on litter or vegetation (Huang et al 2021, Mangan et al 2022); therefore, increased litter material could make questing for this species more difficult. Litter material remains an important aspect of forest ecology regulating moisture and energy content between the soil and above air (Ogée and Brunet 2002).…”

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Forest-associated habitat variables influence human–tick encounters in the southeastern United States

Butler,

Randolph,

Vogt

et al. 2023

Environmental Entomology

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Due to the increased frequency of human–tick encounters and expanding ranges of ticks in the United States, there is a critical need to identify environmental conditions associated with tick populations and their likelihood to contact human hosts. In a passive tick surveillance partnership with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, we identified environmental variables associated with tick encounters by forestry personnel. Ticks were identified by species and life stage, and site-specific variables were associated with each tick using FIA forest inventory datasets and generalized linear models with negative binomial distributions. Of the 55 FIA variables available, we identified biotic and abiotic environmental variables associated with Amblyomma americanum L. (carbon in litter material and standing dead tree aboveground dry biomass), Dermacentor variabilis Say (seedling species unevenness and elevation), and Ixodes scapularis L. (carbon in dead woody material and seedling species unevenness). We propose conducting future treatment–control studies using these forestry-related environmental variables to test their ability to alter tick abundance at sites. Land management decisions not only affect common flora and fauna, but changes to these habitats can also alter the way ticks parasitize hosts and use vegetation to find those hosts. These results can be used with land management decisions to prevent future human–tick encounters and highlight risk areas.

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