In an ongoing study by East Stroudsburg University, researchers in 2017 collected 100
black-legged ticks in Milford Borough in eastern Pennsylvania.
Trapping occurred in June to coincide with the peak abundance of nymphal
black-legged ticks and so perhaps increase the chance that B.
BioTEMS risk assessment maps (RAMs) were developed for Edgewood for the following infectious diseases and vectors: H5N1 avian influenza, EEE, WNV, ZIKAV, unnamed Bioagent X, lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), and
black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis).
Each Bravecto treatment kills fleas and certain species of ticks (
black-legged tick, American dog tick, and brown dog tick) for 12 weeks, three times longer than any other oral flea treatment.
Many species, including the
black-legged tick mainly responsible for Lyme disease, "hunt" by crawling onto the edges of grass stems or leaves on the ground.
Deer, one of the major hosts for
black-legged ticks, were overhunted and dwindled to a few small, scattered populations.
Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterium that has been reported in robins, songbirds, cardinals, thrushes, sparrows and other ground foraging birds, same assign some cases waterfowl causing Lyme disease in human which could transmit through the bite of
Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the Western
Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus) that play a role in zoonosis.
The western
black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus: A vector of Borrelia burgdorferi.
scapularis (the
black-legged tick), the vector for anaplasmosis, is reported commonly from northern and northeastern states.
americanum (lone star tick) or Ixodes scapularis (deer tick or
black-legged tick).
chaffeensis in other tick species, including the dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (18,22,23), the western
black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus (22), Ixodes ricinus in Russia (24), and the ticks A.
In the eastern United States, the
black-legged tick is mainly responsible for transmitting the disease.