Trapping White-Tailed Deer (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) in Suburbia for Study of Tick–Host Interaction

摘要: Live capture of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (Zimmermann, 1780) is often necessary for research, population control, disease monitoring, and parasite surveillance. We provide our trapping protocol used in a tick-host vector ecology research project recommendations to improve efficiency programs using drop nets suburban areas. captured 125 across two seasons. Generally, lower daily minimum temperatures were related increased probability, along with the presence snow. Our most successful sites less forested, contained more fragmentation, greater proportion human development (buildings, roads, recreational fields). To future success, efforts should include areas dominated by fields not emphasize remote, heavily fragmented parks. Concurrently, study illustrated heterogeneous nature tick distributions, we collected ticks from one site moderate parameter values between extremes developed least sites. This emphasized need distribute only increase your success but also trap varying levels urbanization fragmentation probability collection.