Seasonal Activity and Relative Abundance of Amblyomma americanum in Mississippi

ORCID

Goddard: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2617-7141

MSU Affiliation

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

Creation Date

2026-09-30

Abstract

Ecological investigations of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), were conducted in 3 adjacent 60-m2 plots, located in Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Noxubee County, Mississippi. Ticks were collected weekly from July 1992 to July 1993 by flagging randomly selected lanes. During the year, larval ticks were collected first in early July, with peak numbers in September, and they were collected no later than late October. Nymphal ticks were collected from mid-March to late October, with peak numbers occurring in mid-May and early August. Adult ticks were found initially in early March, with peak numbers from mid-May to mid-June and were no longer collected by late August. Analyses of meteorological data indicated that the most influential parameter on tick activity was humidity.

Keywords

Amblyomma americanum, Ixodidae, seasonality, tick, vector biology

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Publication Title

Journal of Medical Entomology

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Entomological Society of America

First Page

128

Last Page

131

Rights

© 1996 Entomological Society of America

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/33.1.128