The TickEncounter Resource Center (TERC) from the University of Rhode Island promotes tick bite protection and tick-borne disease prevention by engaging, educating and empowering people to take action. One supportive element allows persons and organizations to become TickEncounter Prevention Partners. A new program enables nationwide crowd-sourced tick surveillance using veterinary clinic teams.
Participating TickSpotter veterinary clinics and animal hospitals are collecting all the ticks they find and remove from their patients, and sending them to TickEncounter every 2 weeks for identification.
Note the excellent identification chart here. < link >
Source: tickencounter.org. Link. TickEncounter is the outreach arm of a multi-pronged approach to “solving the tick problem” locally, nationally, and around the globe. TickEncounter provides a means for connecting with stake-holders, and extending tick control and tick-borne disease prevention research to end-users in an engaging way that empowers them to take appropriate action.
INSIGHTS: Check out the various resources and become familiar with TERC. The website contains excellent tools for identification and prevention for use in clinic or retail education settings.