| dc.contributor |
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences |
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| dc.contributor |
Entomology |
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| dc.creator |
McCullough, Christopher T. |
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| dc.creator |
Angelella, Gina M. |
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| dc.creator |
O'Rourke, Megan E. |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-28T12:42:05Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-28T12:42:05Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-09 |
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| dc.date |
2020-09-25T13:29:31Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2023-03-01T18:53:28Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2023-03-01T18:53:28Z |
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| dc.identifier |
McCullough, C.; Angelella, G.; O’Rourke, M. Conservation Wildflower Plantings Do Not Enhance On-Farm Abundance of Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae). Insects 2020, 11, 617. |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/100085 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11090617 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281728 |
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| dc.description |
Planting wildflowers is a commonly suggested measure to conserve pollinators. While beneficial for pollinators, plots of wildflowers may be inadvertently performing an ecosystem disservice by providing a suitable habitat for arthropod disease vectors like ticks. The lone star tick, <i>Amblyomma americanum</i> (L.), is a medically important tick species that might be able to utilize wildflower plantings as a suitable habitat. In this two-year study, ticks were sampled using dry ice baited traps from wildflower plots, weedy field margins, and forested areas to determine if wildflower plantings were increasing the on-farm abundance of <i>A. americanum</i>. Abiotic and biotic environmental variables were also measured to better understand which factors affect <i>A. americanum</i> abundance. We found no more <i>A. americanum</i> in wildflower plots than in weedy field margins. Forested areas harbored the greatest number of <i>A. americanum</i> sampled. The height of the vegetation in the sampled habitats was a significant factor in determining <i>A. americanum</i> abundance. Depending on the sampled habitat and life stage, this relationship can be positive or negative. The relationship with vegetation height may be related to the behavior of the white-tailed deer and the questing success of <i>A. americanum</i>. Overall, wildflower plots do not pose an increased risk of exposure to <i>A. americanum</i> on farms. |
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| dc.description |
Published version |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
MDPI |
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| dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| dc.subject |
pollinator |
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| dc.subject |
tick |
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| dc.subject |
ecosystem services |
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| dc.subject |
vector ecology |
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| dc.title |
Conservation Wildflower Plantings Do Not Enhance On-Farm Abundance of Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae) |
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| dc.title |
Insects |
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| dc.type |
Article - Refereed |
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| dc.type |
Text |
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| dc.type |
StillImage |
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