ReviewJournal of medical entomology2021
Benefits and Drawbacks of Citizen Science to Complement Traditional Data Gathering Approaches for Medically Important Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States.
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- Why are the ticks winning, and what can we do about it?Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2026Review
- Citizen Science Tick Observations Serve as an Early Warning System for Tick-Borne Diseases.Zoonoses and public health · 2026Article
- Spatial modeling of Borrelia genospecies in human-biting ticks from the French citizen science programme CiTIQUE.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Community-engaged passive tick surveillance highlights the diversity of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Illinois.PloS one · 2026Article
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- History of the geographic distribution of the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, in the United States.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2024Review
- Vector biology of the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis.Trends in parasitology · 2024Review
- Comparison of acarological risk metrics derived from active and passive surveillance and their concordance with tick-borne disease incidence.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2023Article
- Changes in the geographic distribution of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, in the United States.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2023Review
- Perception of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases Worldwide.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Tick-Bite "Meteo"-Prevention: An Evaluation of Public Responsiveness to Tick Activity Forecasts Available Online.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Review
- The Eyewitness Community Survey: An Engaging Citizen Science Tool to Capture Reliable Data while Improving Community Participants' Environmental Health Knowledge and Attitudes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Passive collection of ticks in New Hampshire reveals species-specific patterns of distribution and activity.Journal of medical entomology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tick-borne diseases are increasing in North America. Knowledge of which tick species and associated human pathogens are present locally can inform the public and medical community about the acarological risk for tick bites and tick-borne infections. Citizen science (also called community-based monitoring, volunteer monitoring, or participatory science) is emerging as a potential approach to complement traditional tick record data gathering where all aspects of the work is done by researchers or public health professionals. One key question is how citizen science can best be used to generate high-quality data to fill knowledge gaps that are difficult to address using traditional data gathering approaches. Citizen science is particularly useful to generate information on human-tick encounters and may also contribute to geographical tick records to help define species distributions across large areas. Previous citizen science projects have utilized three distinct tick record data gathering methods including submission of: 1) physical tick specimens for identification by professional entomologists, 2) digital images of ticks for identification by professional entomologists, and 3) data where the tick species and life stage were identified by the citizen scientist. We explore the benefits and drawbacks of citizen science, relative to the traditional scientific approach, to generate data on tick records, with special emphasis on data quality for species identification and tick encounter locations. We recognize the value of citizen science to tick research but caution that the generated information must be interpreted cautiously with data quality limitations firmly in mind to avoid misleading conclusions.
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