Something I learned while working on this project is that ticks are rather picky about weather. They need moisture to survive, so when it’s very hot and dry out, they hide down near the ...
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This was the last official week of my internship! Emily and I worked together to finish the tick distribution map, and we merged the data from 2021 and 2022 to show the findings from ...
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This week I continued to work on the tick distribution map with ArcGIS. I also wrote and sent individual reports so that the volunteers could see what they collected. Some people were surprised that ...
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It was quiet around the office this week! Many people were out on vacation, and I mostly worked on compiling data for the tick distribution map. Emily and I also picked up the tick ...
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This was the last week of tick identifications in the lab! We received many live Asian longhorned ticks, and gave 24 to someone in the lab studying tick circadian rhythms. After the ticks are ...
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On Wednesday, I sorted through a shipment of ticks containing many larvae on a lint roller sheet. We provided lint rollers in case volunteers found any clusters of newly-hatched larvae on their tick drags, ...
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Happy Fourth of July! I spent most of this week processing tick submissions in the lab. The ticks are grouped in vials of up to five if they were collected at the same location ...
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After all this hot, dry weather this season, it seems that the ticks aren’t as active as in previous years. Because of that, we decided to extend the Tick Blitz by a week, meaning ...
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The Tick Blitz is here! I started getting collection sheets from the volunteers via email starting Monday afternoon, and received the first few envelopes of vials later in the week. The collection sheets are ...
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This week started out with a long driving day! Some volunteers had their tick collection kits shipped to them, but the rest opted to pick them up at their local Cornell Cooperative Extension office, ...
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Hello! My name is Natalie Bailey, I’ll be a junior this fall majoring in Environment and Sustainability. I was drawn to the Tick Blitz internship because I wanted to try out lab work and ...
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