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- Title
Phenology of five tick species in the central Great Plains.
- Authors
Ng'eno, Eric; Alkishe, Abdelghafar; Romero-Alvarez, Daniel; Sundstrom, Kellee; Cobos, Marlon E.; Belgum, Hallee; Chitwood, Abigail; Grant, Amber; Keck, Alex; Kloxin, Josiah; Letterman, Brayden; Lineberry, Megan; McClung, Kristin; Nippoldt, Sydney; Sharum, Sophia; Struble, Stefan; Thomas, Breanne; Ghosh, Anuradha; Brennan, Robert; Little, Susan
- Abstract
The states of Kansas and Oklahoma, in the central Great Plains, lie at the western periphery of the geographic distributions of several tick species. As the focus of most research on ticks and tick-borne diseases has been on Lyme disease which commonly occurs in areas to the north and east, the ticks of this region have seen little research attention. Here, we report on the phenology and activity patterns shown by tick species observed at 10 sites across the two states and explore factors associated with abundance of all and life specific individuals of the dominant species. Ticks were collected in 2020–2022 using dragging, flagging and carbon-dioxide trapping techniques, designed to detect questing ticks. The dominant species was A. americanum (24098, 97%) followed by Dermacentor variabilis (370, 2%), D. albipictus (271, 1%), Ixodes scapularis (91, <1%) and A. maculatum (38, <1%). Amblyomma americanum, A. maculatum and D. variabilis were active in Spring and Summer, while D. albipictus and I. scapularis were active in Fall and Winter. Factors associated with numbers of individuals of A. americanum included day of year, habitat, and latitude. Similar associations were observed when abundance was examined by life-stage. Overall, the picture is one of broadly distributed tick species that shows seasonal limitations in the timing of their questing activity.
- Subjects
GREAT Plains; OKLAHOMA; KANSAS; TICKS; IXODES scapularis; PHENOLOGY; TICK-borne diseases; LYME disease; PLANT phenology
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0302689