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