JASHANDEEP SINGH: WEEK 5 ( ARENA METHOD FOR TICK SAMPLING)

 Hello everyone! Hope you all are well. Let’s start with our week 5 blog. Starting with Monday as the weather was not too good so probably we stayed at office whole day. For first few hours I did ticks surveillance and I started writing out the physical appearance and their characteristics of most three common ticks- Lone star ticks, Deer ticks and American dog ticks. After my lunch break, I started reading the article of Drosophila melanogaster which explains how hormones regulate the life span and reproduction stage of their life. The Next day- Tuesday we went to west beach to look out for mosquitoes sampling and hardly found any samples. After spending few hours at the marsh, we came back to the office and I continued reading my article. The next morning we continued our journey for sampling and spent out time at west bay. This time we hardly got any larvae sample and so I feel like the area was pretty free clean for mosquitoes. The next couple of days we checked Timberpoint and gardener park for samples. After our field trip, we came back to the office. Interestingly, our supervisor told us about pest resistance control technique. They use small plastic bag, where water is filled halfway and fold it tightly to avoid any leakage. The bag was looking pretty cool. Moreover, vector control has also designed their own technique called “ ARENA METHOD” to control tick samples. The method is pretty simple and is made up of PVC. Pipes with steel wire covered on the top. It is made up of waste material. Interestingly, it is cost efficient, environmental friendly and is accurate in taking out samples. Thank you guys for reading out my week 5 blog and hope to see you in my next blog.



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