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Volume 25, Number 4—April 2019
Dispatch

Distribution, Host-Seeking Phenology, and Host and Habitat Associations of Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks, Staten Island, New York, USA

Danielle M. Tufts1Comments to Author , Meredith C. VanAcker1, Maria P. Fernandez, Anthony DeNicola, Andrea Egizi, and Maria A. Diuk-Wasser
Author affiliations: Columbia University, New York, New York, USA (D.M. Tufts, M.C. VanAcker, M.P. Fernandez, M.A. Diuk-Wasser)

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Table 1

Sites surveyed for Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks, Staten Island, New York, USA, 2017 and 2018*

Year and location
 Surveyed
 Habitat
 Density/1,000 m2*
 Adult
 Nymph
 Larvae
2017
Bloomingdale Park Questing Forest 3.1 (2) 0 5 0
Blue Heron Park Questing Forest 0.9 (2) 0 0 1
Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve Questing Forest 61.5 (2) 5 89 0
Clove Lakes Park Questing Forest 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
Conference House Park Questing Forest 7.4 (2) 7 78 0
Freshkills Park Questing; host Grassland 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
Great Kills Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
High Rock Park Questing Forest 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
Latourette Park Questing Forest 1.3 (3) 0 3 0
Lemon Creek Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
Silver Lake Park Questing Grassland 0.3 (2) 0 1 0
Willowbrook Park Questing Forest 0.8 (2) 0 1 0
Wolfe’s Pond Park Questing Forest 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
2018
Arden Woods Park Questing; host Forest 2.7 (6) 2 4 2
Bloomingdale Park Questing Forest 5.9 (3) 0 13 0
Blueberry Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Blue Heron Park Questing; host Forest 0.3 (6) 0 1 0
Bunker Pond Park Questing Forest 1.4 (1) 1 0 0
Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve Questing; host Forest 146.2 (3) 26 280 70
Clove Lakes Park Questing; host Forest 0.0 (6) 0 0 0
College of Staten Island Questing; host Grassland 676.0 (1) 0 0 169
Conference House Park Questing; host Forest 509.7 (6) 128 1,058 343
Deere Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Freshkills Park Questing; host Grassland 11.0 (1) 4 7 0
Goodhue Park Questing; host Forest 0.3 (6) 0 1 0
Great Kills Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
High Rock Park Questing Forest 3.3 (1) 0 2 0
Hybrid Oak Woods Park Questing Forest 13.6 (3) 6 18 1
Ingram Woods Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Jones Woods Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
King Fisher Park Questing; host Forest 0.0 (6) 0 0 0
Latourette Park Questing; host Forest 5.3 (6) 3 3 10
Lemon Creek Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Midland Field Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Miller Field Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Mount Loretto State Forest Questing; host Grassland 675.0 (1) 2 1 78
Ocean Breeze Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Park Questing Forest 0.0 (2) 0 0 0
Seidenberg Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Silver Lake Park Questing Grassland 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Wegener Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Westwood Park Questing Forest 0.7 (1) 1 0 0
Willowbrook Park Questing; host Forest 1.0 (6) 0 2 1
Wolfe's Pond Park Questing Forest 0.0 (1) 0 0 0
Woodhull Park Questing Forest 1.7 (1) 0 1 0

*Adult, nymph, and larval counts include questing ticks only. Values in parentheses indicate no. visits per site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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