Hello Everyone!

My name is Siddhi Balamurali, and I’m a rising junior majoring in biometry and statistics and biological sciences with a concentration in computational biology.

This page will follow the New York Tick Blitz Project. This project is a civilian service project, with volunteers from different counties throughout New York State volunteering to help. It starts with Tick Blitz week, from June 13 -19. In this window of time, participants will collect ticks from local parks and areas using a tick drag. These ticks will be sent in to Cornell’s Entomology Lab, where the ticks will be identified. This gives an idea of the distribution of ticks throughout the Hudson Valley area of New York State. We hope to focus on the distribution of the Lone Star Tick and the invasive Asian Long Horned tick, and what implications the results may have on public health.