Back at LIWC for the first time in seven (😳) years. Blythe gave a great talk on her work on Culicoides susceptibility to fluralaner! 🦟🐄

Three generations of the Mullens lab 🦟🪰❤️🐄🐓

Last #LIWC2023 tweet comes w/ 3 requests. 1- The Murillo lab is looking for pests of #poultry sign up here! murillolab.ucr.edu/poultry-survey 2- Caleb Hubbard is looking for house flies 3- Katy Smith is still looking for images of flies &/or ticks from #livestock tiny.utk.edu/CattlePestImag…

Forest Ent folks, we’ve got a dead oak tree in the yard with these beetles all over the fence behind it now. Also some parasitoids. Round exit holes. Any thoughts on an ID, and on whether these killed the tree or if they moved in after the fact?

BEHOLD: #Tick season is upon us. Learn the ins & outs of which insect repellents work best for you in this week's Musings on Nature at bit.ly/MoN-insect-rep…. @AgInArk #Arkansas #summer

1. The *minimum* conditions for malaria - competent mosquitoes and warm enough temperatures - are met in the southern U.S. even in the absence of climate change. We didn’t get rid of malaria here until 1949. This event is not inherently attributable to climate change.

Apropos of nothing, we have plenty of Anopheles mosquitoes in this country capable of transmitting Plasmodium and have, like, since forever

Excited to present on mosquito-borne diseases and identification today at the WGCVBD Vector-Borne Disease Management Workshop for some of our local and regional vector control and pest management professionals 🦟

ICYMI: Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology @AgINArk's Emily McDermott weighs in on #mosquitoes in Arkansas with THV11's Sarah Horbacewicz thv11.com/article/life/a… via THV11

Effective #tick biosecurity and surveillance depends upon a firm understanding of tick biology, risks, & management. VPH resident Andreas Eleftheriou developed four 5-min educational videos for #livestock #producers - watch here rb.gy/il52l Ohio Beef Council OhioCattlemen'sAssn #beef

Marisol, a REEU student from UTRGV, presented her work on heartworm surveillance last week and then we celebrated with a lab lunch. It was great having her in the lab this summer!

#OOO

If you’re curious about what my classmates and I learned and did during our masters, then check out this new article from the NEVBD that summarizes everything and addresses gaps in the vector-borne disease workforce! academic.oup.com/jme/advance-ar…

Excited to announce that McDermott Lab PhD student, Blythe has just published her very first paper! Here we show that fluralaner has low contact efficacy against Culicoides, but potential for use as a systemic to control feeding midges parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We're hiring! I am looking to hire two (!) postdocs to work on vector-borne and zoonotic pathogen surveillance & metagenomics as part of the Remote Emerging Disease Intelligence - NETwork. These are 2 yr positions with the possibility of extension. Apply by 21SEP: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS/job/Faye…

There is also a Research Technician position in the pipeline, so please keep an eye out for that as well!

So very happy to finally share the work from my master’s! Check it out to see why zoos make excellent biosurveillance sites and to find out what mosquitoes in zoos are feeding on! academic.oup.com/jme/advance-ar…

Our Technician position has just been posted! We are looking for someone w/ a MS or BS+experience to help with project management and running basic lab assays. Apply by 07OCT: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/de…

🚨The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor focused on soilborne diseases of plants. This is a 12 month position (80% research, 20% teaching).🦠🌱👇 uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/jo…