Submissions from 2023
Nematode problems in ornamentals and turf and their sustainable management, W. T. Crow, N. A. Mitkowski, and J. A. LaMondia
Deer management generally reduces densities of nymphal Ixodes scapularis, but not prevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Alynn M. Martin, Danielle Buttke, Jordan Raphael, Kelsey Taylor, Sarah Maes, Christina M. Parise, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Paul C. Cross
Modeling of historical and current distributions of lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), is consistent with ancestral range recovery, Ilia Rochlin, Andrea Egizi, and Howard S. Ginsberg
Submissions from 2022
Selective Host Attachment by Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae): Tick-Lizard Associations in the Southeastern United States, Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, Genevieve Pang, Jean I. Tsao, Meghan Fitzgerald, Breann Ross, Eric L. Rulison, and Russell L. Burke
Tick-Borne Disease Prevention Behaviors Among Participants in a Tick Surveillance System Compared with a Sample Of Master Gardeners, Heather L. Kopsco and Thomas N. Mather
Proficiency at Tick Identification by Pathologists and Clinicians Is Poor, Alvaro C. Laga, Scott R. Granter, and Thomas N. Mather
Identification of Hard Ticks in the United States: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Pathologists, Alvaro C. Laga, Thomas N. Mather, Roland J. Duhaime, and Scott R. Granter
Insecticidal Activity of a Petroleum-Derived Spray Oil and an Organosilicone Surfactant on Listronotus maculicollis (Kirby) Adults in Laboratory and Greenhouse Bioassays, Benjamin A. McGraw, Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer, Olga Kostromytska, Shaohui Wu, and Steven R. Alm
Assessing Durability and Safety of Permethrin Impregnated Uniforms Used by Outdoor Workers to Prevent Tick Bites after One Year of Use, Stephanie L. Richards, Jeffrey Driver, Megan C. Dyer, Thomas N. Mather, Sheana Funkhouser, Cedar Mitchell, Jo Anne Balanay, Avian White, and Steven Meshnick
Using Surrogate Insects in Acid Bioassays for Development of New Controls for Varroa destructor (Arachnida: Varroidae), Julia J. Vieira, Casey L. Johnson, Elizabeth M. Varkonyi, Howard S. Ginsberg, Kassie L. Picard, Matthew K. Kiesewetter, and Steven R. Alm
Submissions from 2021
Robotic laser scarecrows: A tool for controlling bird damage in sweet corn, Rebecca Nelson Brown and David H. Brown
Growing Saffron Crocus in the Northeastern United States: Effects of Winter Protection and Planting Density, Rahmatallah Gheshm and Rebecca N. Brown
Why Lyme Disease is Common in the Northern US, but Rare in the South: The Roles of Host Choice, Host-seeking Behavior, and Tick Density, Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, Russell L. Burke, Nicholas H. Ogden, Lorenza Beati, Roger Lebrun, Isis M. Arsnoe, Richard Gerhold, Seungeun Han, Kaetlyn Jackson, Lauren Maestas, Teresa Moody, Genevieve Pang, Breann Ross, Eric L. Rulison, and Jean I. Tsao
Retrotransposon-Based Blood Meal Analysis of Nymphal Deer Ticks Demonstrates Spatiotemporal Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti Reservoirs, Heidi K. Goethert, Thomas N. Mather, Joanna Buchthal, and Sam R. Telford
Incrimination of shrews as a reservoir for Powassan virus, Heidi K. Goethert, Thomas N. Mather, Richard W. Johnson, and Sam R. Telford III
Seasonality of acarological risk of exposure to Borrelia miyamotoi from questing life stages of Ixodes scapularis collected from Wisconsin and Massachusetts, USA, Seungeun Han, Graham J. Hickling, Nicholas H. Ogden, Howard S. Ginsberg, Vishvapali Kobbekaduwa, Eric L. Rulison, Lorenza Beati, and Jean I. Tsao
An analysis of companion animal tick encounters as revealed by photograph-based crowdsourced data, Heather L. Kopsco, Roland J. Duhaime, and Thomas N. Mather
Assessing public tick identification ability and tick bite riskiness using passive photograph-based crowdsourced tick surveillance, Heather L. Kopsco, Roland J. Duhaime, and Thomas N. Mather
Crowdsourced tick image-informed updates to U.S. county records of three medically important tick species, Heather L. Kopsco, Roland J. Duhaime, and Thomas N. Mather
Performance of a Native Butterfly and Introduced Moth on Native and Introduced Lineages of Phragmites australis, Adam M. Lambert, Lisa A. Tewksbury, and Richard A. Casagrande
Community Orchards for Food Sovereignty, Human Health, and Climate Resilience: Indigenous Roots and Contemporary Applications, Sarah Taylor Lovell, Jann Hayman, Hannah Hemmelgarn, Andrea A. Hunter, and John R. Taylor
Urban agroforestry as a strategy for aligning agroecology with resilience planning initiatives, Sarah Lovell and John Taylor
Possible Effects of Climate Change on Ixodid Ticks and the Pathogens They Transmit: Predictions and Observations, Nicholas H. Ogden, C. Ben Beard, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Jean I. Tsao
Vectra 3D (dinotefuran, pyriproxyfen and permethrin) prevents acquisition of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto by Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes scapularis ticks in an ex vivo feeding model, Djamel Tahir, Btissam Asri, Leon Nicolaas Meyer, Alec Evans, Thomas N. Mather, Byron Blagburn, Reinhard K. Straubinger, Valérie Choumet, Frans Jongejan, and Marie Varloud
Facilitating Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Planning in Washington, DC through a Tableau Interface, John Taylor, Mamatha Hanumappa, Lara Miller, Brendan Shane, and Matthew L. Richardson
Designing multifunctional urban agroforestry with people in mind, John Taylor and Sarah Taylor Lovell
Exploring the sociomaterial dynamics of home food gardening in a Black-majority, low-income neighbourhood in Chicago, IL, U.S.A., John R. Taylor and Sarah T. Lovell
Submissions from 2020
Prioritizing Water Security in the Management of Vector Borne Diseases: Lessons from Oaxaca Mexico, Ali S. Akanda, Kristin Johnson, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Janelle Couret
Datana drexelii (Lepidoptera: Notododontidae) occurrence and larval survival on highbush blueberry cultivars, Alex K. Baranowski, Steven R. Alm, and Evan L. Preisser
When misconceptions impede best practices: evidence supports biological control of invasive Phragmites, Bernd Blossey, Stacy B. Endriss, Richard A. Casagrande, Patrick Häfliger, Hariet Hinz, Andrea Dávalos, Carrie Brown-Lima, Lisa A. Tewksbury, and Robert S. Bourchier
Biological control of Aedes mosquito larvae with carnivorous aquatic plant, Utricularia macrorhiza, Janelle Couret, Marco Notarangelo, Sarashwathy Veera, Noah LeClaire-Conway, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Roger Lebrun
First glimpse into the origin and spread of the Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, in the United States, Andrea Egizi, Leslie Bulaga-Seraphin, Erika Alt, Waheed I. Bajwa, Joshua Bernick, Matthew Bickerton, Scott R. Campbell, Neeta Connally, Kandai Doi, Richard C. Falco, David N. Gaines, Telleasha L. Greay, Vanessa L. Harper, Allen C.G. Heath, Ju Jiang, Terry A. Klein, Lauren Maestas, Thomas N. Mather, James L. Occi, Charlotte L. Oskam, Jennifer Pendleton, Marissa Teator, Alec T. Thompson, Danielle M. Tufts, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Meredith C. VanAcker, Michael J. Yabsley, and Dina M. Fonseca
Compost and Black Polyethylene Mulches Improve Spring Production of Romaine Lettuce in Southern New England, Rahmatallah Gheshm and Rebecca Brown
The Effects of Black and White Plastic Mulch on Soil Temperature and Yield of Crisphead Lettuce in Southern New England, Rahmatallah Gheshm and Rebecca Brown
Local abundance of Ixodes scapularis in forests: Effects of environmental moisture, vegetation characteristics, and host abundance, Howard S. Ginsberg, Eric L. Rulison, Jasmine L. Miller, Genevieve Pang, Isis M. Arsnoe, Graham J. Hickling, Nicholas H. Ogden, Roger A. LeBrun, and Jean I. Tsao
A Four-Year, Seven-State Reforestation Trial with Eastern Hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis) Resistant to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae), Ian G. Kinahan, Gabrielle Grandstaff, Alana Russell, Chad M. Rigsby, Richard A. Casagrande, and Evan L. Preisser
Crowdsourced photographs as an effective method for large-scale passivetick surveillance, Heather L. Kopsco, Guang Xu, Chu Yuan Luo, Stephen M. Rich, and Thomas N. Mather
Potential for negative interactions between successful arthropod and weed biological control programs: A case study with Lilioceris species, Ellen C. Lake, Lisa Tewksbury, Melissa C. Smith, F. Allen Dray, Alana D. Russell, Paul T. Madeira, Min B. Rayamajhi, and Richard A. Casagrande
Protective effectiveness of long-lasting permethrin impregnated clothing against tick bites in an endemic lyme disease setting: A randomized control trial among outdoor workers, Cedar Mitchell, Megan Dyer, Feng Chang Lin, Natalie Bowman, Thomas Mather, and Steven Meshnick
Interrupted Blood Feeding in Ticks: Causes and Consequences, Djamel Tahir, Leon Meyer, Josephus Fourie, Frans Jongejan, Thomas N. Mather, Valérie Choumet, Byron Blagburn, Reinhard K. Straubinger, and Marie Varloud
Collection of Jaltomata darcyana (Solanaceae), previously unrecorded in cultivation, from a home garden in Chicago, IL, John Taylor and Thomas Mione
Molecular Characterization of Haemaphysalis Species and a Molecular Genetic Key for the Identification of Haemaphysalis of North America, Alec T. Thompson, Kristen Dominguez, Christopher A. Cleveland, Shaun J. Dergousoff, Kandai Doi, Richard C. Falco, Talleasha Greay, Peter Irwin, L. Robbin Lindsay, Jingze Liu, Thomas N. Mather, Charlotte L. Oskam, Roger I. Rodriguez-Vivas, Mark G. Ruder, David Shaw, Stacey L. Vigil, Seth White, and Michael J. Yabsley
Chemical and biological indicators of soil health in Chicago urban gardens and farms, Carmen M. Ugarte and John R. Taylor
Submissions from 2019
Establishment of Hypena opulenta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) on Vincetoxicum rossicum in Ontario, Canada, Robert S. Bourchier, Naomi Cappuccino, Alicia Rochette, Jim des Rivières, Sandy M. Smith, Lisa Tewksbury, and Richard Casagrande
Relating Aerial Deposition of Entomophaga maimaiga Conidia (Zoopagomycota: Entomophthorales) to Mortality of Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) Larvae and Nearby Defoliation, Joseph S. Elkinton, Tonya D. Bittner, Valerie J. Pasquarella, George H. Boettner, Andrew M. Liebhold, Juli R. Gould, Heather Faubert, Lisa Tewksbury, Hannah J. Broadley, Nathan P. Havill, Ann E. Hajek, and Darrell Ross
Nonlinearities in transmission dynamics and efficient management of vector-borne pathogens, Howard S. Ginsberg and Jannelle Couret
Staple Food Item Availability among Small Retailers in Providence, RI, Yuyao Huang, Alison Tovar, John Taylor, and Maya Vadiveloo
Is selenoprotein K required for Borrelia burgdorferi infection within the tick vector Ixodes scapularis?, Deepak Kumar, Monica Embers, Thomas N. Mather, and Shahid Karim
Regional prevalences of Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia bissettiae, and Bartonella henselae in Ixodes affinis, Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis in the USA, Ricardo G. Maggi, Marcée Toliver, Toni Richardson, Thomas Mather, and Edward B. Breitschwerdt
The Bee Fauna of Coastal Napatree Point and Two Inland Sites in Southern Rhode Island, Aya Rothwell and Howard S. Ginsberg
Minimizing Bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) Bycatch in Japanese Beetle Traps, Steven J. Sipolski, Sara W. Datson, Michael Reding, Jason B. Oliver, Steven R. Alm, and Theresa Pitts-Singer
Bioabsorption and Effectiveness of Long-Lasting Permethrin-Treated Uniforms over Three Months among North Carolina Outdoor Workers, Kristin M. Sullivan, Alison Poffley, Sheana Funkhouser, Jeffrey Driver, John Ross, Maria Ospina, Antonia M. Calafat, Charles B. Beard, Avian White, Jo Anne Balanay, Stephanie Richards, Megan Dyer, Thomas N. Mather, and Steven Meshnick
Eastern carpenter bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Nest structure, nest cell provisions, and trap nest acceptance in Rhode Island, Sara K. Tucker, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Steven R. Alm
Effect of corolla slitting and nectar robbery by the Eastern Carpenter Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) on fruit quality of vaccinium corymbosum L. (Ericales: Ericaceae), Sara K. Tucker, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Steven R. Alm
Submissions from 2018
Ixonnexin from Tick Saliva Promotes Fibrinolysis by Interacting with Plasminogen and Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator, and Prevents Arterial Thrombosis, Teresa C. Assumpcao, Daniella M. Mizurini, Dongying Ma, Robson Q. Monteiro, Sydney Ahlstedt, Morayma Reyes, Michail Kotsyfakis, Thomas N. Mather, John F. Andersen, Jan Lukszo, Jose MC Ribeiro, and Ivo MB Francischetti
Complete host specificity test plant list and associated data to assess host specificity of Archanara geminipuncta and Archanara neurica, two potential biocontrol agents for invasive Phragmites australis in North America, Bernd Blossey, Patrick Häfliger, Lisa A. Tewksbury, Andrea Dávalos, and Richard A. Casagrande
Host specificity and risk assessment of Archanara geminipuncta and Archanara neurica, two potential biocontrol agents for invasive Phragmites australis in North America, Bernd Blossey, Patrick Häfliger, Lisa A. Tewksbury, Andrea Dávalos, and Richard A. Casagrande
Grasses as appropriate targets in weed biocontrol: is the common reed, Phragmites australis, an anomaly?, Richard A. Casagrande, Patrick Häfliger, Hariet L. Hinz, Lisa Tewksbury, and Bernd Blossey
Organic mulch effects on high tunnel lettuce in Southern New England, Rahmatallah Gheshm and Rebecca Nelson Brown
New strategies for controlling ticks, Enala T. Mwase, Rupert G. Pegram, and Thomas N. Mather
Evidence for geographic variation in life-cycle processes affecting phenology of the lyme disease vector ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States, Nicholas H. Ogden, Genevieve Pang, Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, Russell L. Burke, Lorenza Beati, and Jean I. Tsao
Vegetable amaranths for summer greens production in the northeastern United States, Sarah R. Schweig and Rebecca N. Brown
Submissions from 2017
Acquisition of borrelia burgdorferi infection by larval ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with engorgement measures, J. Couret, M. C. Dyer, T. N. Mather, S. Han, J. I. Tsao, R. A. Lebrun, and H. S. Ginsberg
Acquisition of borrelia burgdorferi infection by larval ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with engorgement measures, J. Couret, M. C. Dyer, T. N. Mather, S. Han, J. I. Tsao, R. A. Lebrun, and H. S. Ginsberg
Enhancing pollination supply in an urban ecosystem through landscape modifications, Amélie Y. Davis, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Cliff R. Shierk, Kevin C. Matteson, John R. Taylor, Sarah T. Lovell, and Emily S. Minor
Environmental Factors Affecting Survival of Immature Ixodes scapularis and Implications for Geographical Distribution of Lyme Disease: The Climate/Behavior Hypothesis, Howard S. Ginsberg, Marisa Albert, Lixis Acevedo, Mwgan C. Dyer, Isis M. Arsnoe, Jean I. Tsao, Thomas N. Mather, and Roger A. LeBrun
Management of arthropod pathogen vectors in North America: Minimizing adverse effects on pollinators, Howard S. Ginsberg, Timothy A. Bargar, Michelle L. Hladik, and Charles Lubelczyk
Turfgrasses, Richard J. Hull
Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: Consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Andrew D.M. Dobson, Taal Levi, Daniel J. Salkeld, Andrea Swei, Howard S. Ginsberg, Anne Kjemtrup, Kerry A. Padgett, Per M. Jensen, Durland Fish, Nick H. Ogden, and Maria A. Diuk-Wasser
Establishment of parasitoids of the lily leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in North America, Lisa Tewksbury, Richard A. Casagrande, Naomi Cappuccino, and Marc Kenis
Submissions from 2016
Biological control of invasive Phragmites may safeguard native Phragmites and increase wetland conservation values, Bernd Blossey and Richard A. Casagrande
Response to Bhattarai et al.: Trait differences between native and introduced genotypes results in subspecies level specificity in select Phragmites herbivores, Bernd Blossey and Richard A. Casagrande
Design for mosquito abundance, diversity, and phenology sampling within the National Ecological Observatory Network, D. Hoekman, Y. P. Springer, C. M. Barker, R. Barrera, M. S. Blackmore, W. E. Bradshaw, D. H. Foley, Howard S. Ginsberg, M. H. Hayden, C. M. Holzapfel, S. A. Juliano, L. D. Kramer, S. L. LaDeau, T. P. Livdahl, C. G. Moore, R. S. Nasci, W. K. Reisen, and H. M. Savage
Effect of phenology on agonistic competitive interactions between invasive and native sheet-web spiders, Jeremy D. Houser, Adam H. Porter, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Elizabeth M. Jakob
A dynamic population model to investigate effects of climate and climate-independent factors on the lifecycle of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), Antoinette Ludwig, Howard S. Ginsberg, Graham J. Hickling, and Nicholas H. Ogden
Immunomodulatory effects of tick saliva on dermal cells exposed to Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, Dorothy C. Scholl, Monica E. Embers, John R. Caskey, Deepak Kaushal, Thomas N. Mather, Wayne R. Buck, Lisa A. Morici, and Mario T. Philipp
Native bee diversity and pollen foraging specificity in cultivated highbush blueberry (Ericaceae: Vaccinium corymbosum) in Rhode Island, Zachary Scott, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Steven R. Alm
Tick‐, mosquito‐, and rodent‐borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network, Yuri P. Springer, Howard S. Ginsberg, and et al
Effects of three production systems on muskmelon yield and quality in new England, Mina Vescera and Rebecca Nelson Brown
Passive Surveillance of Ixodes scapularis (Say), Their Biting Activity, and Associated Pathogens in Massachusetts, Guang Xu, Thomas N. Mather, Craig S. Hollingsworth, and Stephen M. Rich
Submissions from 2015
Different Populations of Blacklegged Tick Nymphs Exhibit Differences in Questing Behavior That Have Implications for Human Lyme Disease Risk, Isis M. Arsnoe, Graham J. Hickling, Howard S. Ginsberg, Richard McElreath, and Jean I. Tsao
Application of M13 Phage Display for Identifying Immunogenic Proteins from Tick (Ixodes scapularis) Saliva, Martin Becker, André Felsberger, André Frenzel, Wendy M.C. Shattuck, Megan C. Dyer, Jonas Kügler, Jonas Zantow, Thomas N. Mather, and Michael Hust
Energy relations and carbohydrate partitioning in turfgrasses, Richard J. Hull
Evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi infection in cats after exposure to wild-caught adult Ixodes scapularis, Michael R. Lappin, Ramaswamy Chandrashekar, Brett Stillman, Jiayou Liu, and Thomas N. Mather
Modeling the decline and potential recovery of a native butterfly following serial invasions by exotic species, Tegan A.L. Morton, Alexandra Thorn, J. Michael Reed, Roy G. Van Driesche, Richard A. Casagrande, and Frances S. Chew
Submissions from 2014
Relative Humidity and Activity Patterns of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), K. A. Berger, Howard S. Ginsberg, L. Gonzalez, and Thomas N. Mather
Adverse Moisture Events Predict Seasonal Abundance of Lyme Disease Vector Ticks (Ixodes scapularis), Kathryn A. Berger, Howard S. Ginsberg, Katherine D. Dugas, Lutz H. Hamel, and Thomas N. Mather
Clothianidin and imidacloprid residues in Poa annua (Poales: Poaceae) and their effects on Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Christopher Clavet, Matthew Requintina, Emily Hampton, Richard S. Cowles, Frank J. Byrne, and Steven R. Alm
Comparison of Survival Patterns of Northern and Southern Genotypes of the North American Tick Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) under Northern and Southern Conditions, Howard S. Ginsberg, Eric L. Rulison, Alexandra Azevedo, Genevieve C. Pang, Isis M. Kuczaj, Jean I. Tsao, and Roger A. LeBrun
Use of Early Ripening Cultivars to Avoid Infestation and Mass Trapping to Manage Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericales: Ericaceae), Emily Hampton, Carissa Koski, Olivia Barsoian, Heather Faubert, Richard S. Cowles, and Steven R. Alm
Competition between introduced and native spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae), Jeremy D. Houser, Howard Ginsberg, and Elizabeth M. Jakob
Purification of a serine protease and evidence for a protein C activator from the saliva of the tick, Ixodes scapularis, Sivakamasundari Pichu, José M.C. Ribeiro, Thomas N. Mather, and Ivo M.B. Francischetti
Minimal role of eastern fence lizards in borrelia burgdorferi transmission in Central New Jersey Oak/Pine Woodlands, Eric L. Rulison, Kaetlyn T. Kerr, Megan C. Dyer, Seungeun Han, Russell L. Burke, Jean I. Tsao, and Howard S. Ginsberg
Effect of Temperature on Feeding Period of Larval Blacklegged Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on Eastern Fence Lizards, Eric L. Rulison, Roger A. LeBrun, and Howard S. Ginsberg
Quantitative Factors Proposed to Influence the Prevalence of Canine Tick-Borne Disease Agents in the United States, Roger W. Stich, Byron L. Blagburn, Dwight D. Bowman, Christopher Carpenter, M. Roberto Cortinas, Sidney A. Ewing, Desmond Foley, Janet E. Foley, Holly Gaff, Graham J. Hickling, R. Ryan Lash, Susan E. Little, Catherine Lund, Robert Lund, Thomas N. Mather, Glen R. Needham, William L. Nicholson, Julia Sharp, Andrea Varela-Stokes, and Dongmei Wang
Submissions from 2013
Virulence of Xanthomonas translucens pv. poae Isolated from Poa annua, Arielle Chaves and Nathaniel Mitkowski
Laboratory Assessment of Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) strain GHA for Control of Listronotus maculicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Adults, Christopher Clavet, Emily Hampton, Matthew Requintina, and Steven R. Alm
Environmental management of mosquito-borne viruses in Rhode Island, Howard S. Ginsberg, Alan Gettman, Elisabeth Becker, Ananda S. Bandyopadhyay, and Roger A. Lebrun
Bringing the art and science of cutting propagation back to the bench ©, Brian Maynard