Links for:

“Ticks Off! Controlling Ticks That Transmit Lyme Disease on Your Property”

 

Chapter 1

CDC Lyme Disease Prevention  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm

CDC- list of state health departments  http://www.cdc.gov/other.htm

Mayo Clinic Lyme Disease  http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00116&

American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.  http://www.aldf.com

Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc. http://www.lyme.org/ticks/tick.html

West Nile/DEET information  http://www.aap.org/family/wnv-jun03.htm

Tick PlierTM link http://www.baproducts.com/sawyer.htm

Ticked OffTM link  http://tickedoff.com/

ProTick RemedyTM http://www.tickinfo.com/protickremedy.htm

Article on tick removal devices: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarolog/tickgone.htm

 

Chapter 2

Picture of blacklegged ticks http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/4ticks_cm.htm

Blacklegged tick life cycle http://www.aldf.com/deerTickEcology.shtml

 

Chapter 3

CDC Lyme disease  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm

State Health Departments  http://www.cdc.gov/other.htm

Tick Identification- UW-Madison  http://www.entomology.wisc.edu/insectid/insect_info.php?25

Tick Identification  http://www.practicalscience.com/introtick.html

Tick Identification Kansas http://www.ksu.edu/parasitology/625tutorials/Tick02.html

California (Contra Costa Co.)  http://www.ccmvcd.dst.ca.us/ticks.htm

Connecticut :  http://www.caes.state.ct.us/Tickoffice/tickinfo.htm

Iowa :  http://www.ent.iastate.edu/lds/lds.html

Kentucky : http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef618.htm

Maine : http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/boh/ddc/lyme_disease.htm

Massachusetts :  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/jun27/bugs.html

Maryland :  http://www.hgic.umd.edu/_media/documents/TickIdentificationMDAform.pdf

Michigan :

http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-1566_2403_2421-44271--,00.html

Minnesota (Metro. Area):http://www.mmcd.org/tickid.html

New York State :  http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/environ/lyme/tickid.htm

New Hampshire : http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Agric/AGPDTS/ArthroID.htm

Oregon (Jackson Co.)  http://www.jacksoncountyvectorcontrol.org/ticklyme.shtml

Rhode Island http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/html/03-0714.html

West Virginia :  http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/ipm/insects/2tick.htm

 

Chapter 4

Owl Nest box plans  http://www.owlpages.com/owlboxes.html

 

Chapter 5

4-poster device for deer treatment www.dandux.com

NY State deer feeding regulations http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/deer/feedregs.html

MI deer feeding concerns, rules http://www.michigan.gov/documents/supp_fd_facts_83068_7.pdf

 

Chapter 6

EPA information on regulating chlorpyrifos pesticide http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/chlorpyrifos/agreement.pdf

EPA information on regulating diazinon pesticide http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/diazinon/agreement.pdf

EPA information on regulating cabaryl pesticide

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/carbaryl_ired.pdf

NIH database of household chemicals http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm

 

Literature Cited

 

Chapter 1

14) West Nile/DEET information  http://www.aap.org/family/wnv-jun03.htm

18) Stewart, J. R., W. Burgdorfer, and G. Needham. 1998. Evaluation of three commercial tick removal tools. Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 9:137-142

http://www.wemjournal.org/pdfserv/i1080-6032-009-03-0137.pdf

20) Sanders, K. and P. Guilfoile. 2000. New records of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari:Ixodidae) in Minnesota . Journal of Vector Ecology 25(2): 155-157.

http://www.sove.org/Journal%20PDF/dec2000/sanders.pdf

21) Centers for Disease Control. Map of reported and established Ixodes scapularis populations. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/tickmap.htm

23) Centers for Disease Control Lyme disease risk map. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/riskmap.htm

 

Chapter 2

7) LoGiudice, K., R. Ostfeld, K. Schmidt, and F. Keesing. 2003. The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , USA . 100(2):567-571.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/100/2/567.pdf

 

Chapter 3

4) MN Dept. Health http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/lyme/

 

Chapter 4

20) Owl Nest box plans  http://www.owlpages.com/owlboxes.html

24) Richardson, J. 2000. Permethrin Spot-On Toxicoses in Cats. The Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 10:103-106.

http://www.aspca.org/site/DocServer/veccs_april00.pdf?docID=130

 

Chapter 5

NY State deer feeding regulations http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/deer/feedregs.html

MI deer feeding concerns, rules http://www.michigan.gov/documents/supp_fd_facts_83068_7.pdf

Information on 4-poster bait station  http://www.dandux.com/

 

Chapter 6

17) EPA information on regulating chlorpyrifos pesticide http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/chlorpyrifos/agreement.pdf

18) www.beyondpesticides.org/   At this site, search for “ticks”.

23) EPA information on regulating diazinon pesticide http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/diazinon/agreement.pdf

24) LoGiudice, K., R. Ostfeld, K. Schmidt, and F. Keesing. 2003. The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , USA . 100(2):567-571.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/100/2/567.pdf

30) NIH database of household chemicals http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm

32) EPA information on regulating cabaryl pesticide

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/carbaryl_ired.pdf

 

Chapter 7

9) Centers for Disease Control. Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/stari/