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Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

10-Minute Paper

MUVE: Tick Ecology and Control

Development of a simple trap that captures ticks (Acari) on their dorsal surface

Sunday, October 31, 2021
8:12 AM – 8:24 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 301-303
In-Person
We tested two versions of a tick trap that captures ticks on their dorsum. A prototype based on a decades old model had three components, a truncated pyramidal base with steep sloping walls, downward-facing sticky tape extending beyond and spanning the boundary of the flat upper surface of the base on which ticks become dorsally immobilized, and a reservoir for CO2 emission from dry ice that rests on the flat upper surface. A pre-operational trap was made from thermoformed plastic. It differed from the prototype by having a central depression suitable for housing a biotic CO2 generator in the future and a transparent ceiling so that users could see ticks captured on their dorsum without disturbing the traps. Field testing of the prototype in FL and both types in OK and NC achieved high catches of lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum, e.g., a mean of 71.5 ticks in 4 h in pre-operational traps in NC, comparable performance of the prototype and the pre-operational trap, and in NC significantly higher yields of ticks on both types of traps than on dry-ice baited white sheets.