Ticks of Illinois: biology, bite prevention, and management
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- This presentation by Vector Ecologist Holly Tuten, covers the ticks of human health concern in Illinois, disease agents found in ticks by the statewide surveillance program conducted at the University of Illinois' INHS Medical Entomology Lab, best practices for tick bite prevention, and suggestions on land management to reduce tick encounters.
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Ticks have a two year three lives stages. The second stage the host is typically a rodent. Installing Owl nest boxes to check the rodent population is an important step in the control of ticks. North of the 40 degree latitude line Northern Saw-whet Owl boxes for forest areas to control the white footed forest mice that are highly infected with disease. After nesting season they move into southern Illinois. Screech Owl nest boxes could be used south of 40 degree latitude. Barn Owls like hunting over more open areas like no-till vole friendly habitat. There are fewer forests with trees with nesting cavities and wood barns. There are more metal machine buildings. Owls need safe nesting boxes. They will work for housing.
That’s very cool information - if you’d like to chat about it further, please reach out! My email is in contact information for this paper, after references end on last page:
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/pdfs/20-0110.pdf
As a disc golfer gotta say this is amazing information and I hope we can get awareness out. I haven't finished the video, but wondering how you feel about treating clothing with permethrin? If it is addressed I will understand.
Just got to the section lol hell yes great video
Thank you very much! I'm happy you found it helpful. I do use clothing and gear treated with a 0.5% permethrin-spray (formulated specifically for clothing and gear) for tick-bite prevention when I anticipate I might be working or recreating in potential tick habitats. I always completely read the label before using (it's good to refresh my memory between clothing/gear charges and labels can and do change). However, this chemical protection is only one facet of a multilayered approach I use for tick-bite prevention!
For more information on my approach, check out our lab's tick-bite prevention guide for fieldworkers - scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the picture of tick collectors on the left and a printable PDF document will open in a new page:
medical-entomology.inhs.illinois.edu/research/tick-training-ids/
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