Suppression of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs in a large residential community.
To determine the feasibility of suppressing Ixodes scapularis Say populations in a large, hyperendemic residential community, several rates of granular carbaryl were applied by ground and air to the shrub layer and wooded buffers of a forested residential community during the peak activity period of nymphs. Granular carbaryl significantly reduced the abundance of I. scapularis nymphs on Peromyscus leucopus Raphinesque. Control nymphal ticks ranged between 70.0 and 90.3%. The use of properly timed acaricide applications to I. scapularis habitat within residential communities can provide an effective means of reducing exposure to I. scapularis nymphs, which are chiefly responsible for transmitting Borrelia burgdorferi to humans.
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Division of Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Health, New Jersey State Department of Health, Trenton 08625.
Jordan
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Vasvary
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Chomsky
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Shaw
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Meddis
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Taylor
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Piesman
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D000818:Animals; D012721:Carbaryl; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009515:New Jersey; D013983:Tick Control / Q000379:methods*; D013987:Ticks
D012721:Carbaryl