The Tick IPM Working Group (WG) engages professionals in public health, pest management, natural resource management and others interested in tick-borne disease prevention. The WG organizes the annual Tick Academy, a two-day virtual event featuring expert presentations on tick-borne disease prevention projects. The WG regularly hosts additional webinars at no cost, focusing on innovative tick research, surveillance and related topics in tick-borne disease prevention. These webinars are open to both the public and WG members. Registration for these webinars is posted below.
The WG uses Basecamp to make announcements. If interested in joining, please email Nikki Blunier:
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Mission
Federal, state and local governments, land-grant universities, non-governmental organizations and others agree that it is important to control tick populations to reduce tick-borne disease risk. Consequently, there is an urgent need to collaborate on efforts aimed at reducing the burden of tick-borne diseases both on public and private lands. The purpose of the Public Tick IPM Working Group is to create a forum for improving communications, networking and collaboration amongst all interested parties interested in supporting tick IPM. This national group was created in October 2013 with funding provided by the USDA through the North Central IPM Center.
The Working Group scope includes all IPM strategies including vaccines designed to reduce tick numbers or block the ability of ticks to transmit pathogens, e.g., vaccines designed to prevent infection in mice and other reservoirs to break infection cycles. Vaccines designed to prevent infections in humans or wildlife as a health benefit to individual organisms are outside of the scope. Our geographic focus is the US and Canada.
Webinars
The Tick IPM Working Group hosts free webinars on the third Wednesday of each month from 2 – 3 PM Eastern with the exception of the month leading up to and month of the annual Tick Academy (September and October).
View previous webinars on our YouTube channel: Tick IPM Working Group – YouTube
Register for our next webinar:
Ticks and Personal Repellents presented by Anastasia Figurskey
Anastasia Figurskey is a repellents entomologist at an international consumer packaged goods company that manufactures insect repellent products. She supports the company’s global pest control efforts in developing, testing, and registering topical repellents to be used against mosquitoes, ticks, and other biting arthropods. This presentation will describe the different topical repellent active ingredients used against ticks, types of products, test guidelines for product registration, and helpful resources to learn more about ticks and protection measures.
Please note that a recording will not be available after the webinar.
This project is funded through the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center. This work is supported by the Crop Protection and Pest Management Program, project award no. 2022-70006-38001, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
