Lyme Gradient Team Meeting, Knoxville

Blacklegged ticks in a Knoxville city park

Update (March 15, 2013):  These ticks have now been PCR-tested for presence of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi.  None tested positive, which is consistent with the results of several previous surveys we have conducted at other locations  in Tennessee.

 

 

 

Some closeups (testing a new lens)

Tick eggs, and a male blacklegged tick climbing on a human arm ...

 

Eastern Seaboard Tick Tour; Winter 2013

The last AEDC tick-drag ...

Hunting for the wily Xmas tick  ... our 36th and final tick drag at Arnold Airforce Base, where we began sampling in April 2010.

Mug-shots of Southern Ixodes ticks

Adult female Ixodes spp. ticks, dorsal and ventral, from five southern states -- all collected during November 2012.

Blaze orange

Important items purchased for this weekend's fieldwork at AEDC and OTNF (= trying not to get shot while flagging for ticks).

Oak Ridge deer check, Tennessee

Hunting for blacklegged ticks and Borrelia in east Texas, with the Hamer lab at TAMU

 

MNWR in October: wet even before Hurricane Sandy came by!