Hello Everyone!

I finished identifying the approximately 3000 tick specimens last week. Moving forward, there are still many things to be done. The first task, which I’ve worked on and finished this past week, was to double check certain specimens whose species were unclear, and tallying the type and number of ticks per each participant. The participants are eager to know how many of each species they each collected! I am also working on using the data collected to build a map  on the tick distribution throughout the Hudson Valley. I am coding the map using R, as well as the Leaflet library and Shiny package to build an interactive map. Once the map is completed, it will be visible at New York State Tick Blitz – NEVBD Citizen Sceince (neregionalvectorcenter.com)