Joe Bowden is a research scientist with the federal Department of Natural Resources and an associate professor at Memorial University's Grenfell Campus. Users submit photos of ticks they find, and a website serves as a database of tick locations around the country. The black-legged tick, which can spread Lyme disease, isn't as common in Newfoundland but should be looked out for.īowden is part of the team that brought the eTick app - launched in Quebec last year, and also in use in Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan - to Newfoundland and Labrador last month. Some ticks that enter the province do so by attaching to the wings of migratory birds. "But given that spring is arriving now, we do have some species that do arrive with other things coming to Newfoundland." "There's about half a dozen species of ticks that we have here sort of year-round, that more or less specialize on a few species like rabbits or that sort of thing," Bowden told CBC Newfoundland Morning on Monday. While ticks are more often seen on the mainland, ticks can be spotted on the island, particularly in the spring and summer, says Joe Bowden, a research scientist with the federal Department of Natural Resources and associate professor at Memorial University's Grenfell Campus. (Submitted by eTick)Ī new app designed to track tick sightings has expanded to Newfoundland and Labrador, and is already helping scientists and researchers learn more about the pest's impact on the province. This photo of a black-legged tick found in Corner Brook was submitted to the eTick app.
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