Jashandeep Singh: week 3 vector control( New York)

 Hello everyone! Welcome to my week3 blog . This week was balanced of lab work and field stuff. I got a vast knowledge of mosquitoes and ticks after with my two weeks of internship. Starting our day at Fire Island on Monday. It took us more than 30 minutes to reach this spot. I like this Island as there were many beautiful sites to visit this island. However, the temperature was pretty high which is more than 90 degrees. Me and my other interns started looking for mosquitoes surveillance. After done with our samplings we found out two spots for mosquitoes larvae. Most interesting part was using pesticide blower, where our supervisor taught us how to use it. It was pretty much enjoyable. Our whole day spent out in Fire Island. The next day, we went to Islip town beach for our samplings. I like the beach and also we found out some crabs while we sampling out. The day spent well and it was really awesome to explore the area and understand the pooled holes in marshes. The next day which was Wednesday, we continued our work of identifying the ticks species and also after done with our identification, our supervisor gave us some knowledgeable articles to read. As such far, I found one interesting article on fish movement in different habitat. Unfortunately, the weather was not good even on Thursday and as such far we were in the lab. We continued our lab work and this time I read out three new research articles related to ticks explaining their background history and the growth in Long Island. Apart from this , we went for tour to the head of public health department commissioner officer which was just two minutes walk from our department building. It was introduction meeting and I felt pleasure to have a conversation with him. So, that’s was what we did in week three. Thank you guys for reading my blog.



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