Happy #LunarNewYear! Year of the #snake! 🐍 This festive period, if you want some bedtime reading why not check out our recent study on the overlooked role of #Japanese Habu #vipers as reservoirs of medically important #ticks in subtropical #Asia!

Here’s the Straits Times article on our recent #tick study in #Singapore for anyone interested 🤓

@megsquitophd Cases were tick infestations (the study only looked at ticks themselves but we’ll have more on tick-borne pathogens soon!)

@Omar_vargas97 Thanks so much! I’m certain that a similar study in Colombia would be of immense benefit not just in expanding knowledge of local ticks, but especially for helping to target public health efforts! Looking forward to seeing your results! 👌

Check out our new study on the #phenology of Dew’s bat #tick (Argas dewae)! The abundance of these lovely little #vampires from #Australia suddenly peaks just as their host #bats emerge from #hibernation and disperse!

When I first came to Singapore, the local ticks were virtually unknown. So I set out to study then; and have been ever since. This week we filled in another piece of the puzzle to understand which #ticks attack humans in #Singapore 🇸🇬

@adesnishii なんて素晴らしい観察なんでしょう！😲👏 私はいつも、彼らは子ウサギだけを捕食するものだと思っていました。

RT @adesnishii: #このタグを見た人は黙ってヘビをはる

RT @IUCNRedList: The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s fres…

Thanks @Revelator_News for covering the Ryukyu rabbit #tick recovery program - the first conservation effort for a globally #endangered #parasite !!

RT @OryxTheJournal: 📢 Deadline extension! ⏰ The submission deadline for our special issue on applied parasite conservation has been extende…

We’re #recruiting a #postdoc! Come work on #ticks with us! Live in #Japan, work in English (or Japanese if you want 😉) at the #parasitology lab in @HokkaidoUni

- NEW SPECIES ALERT - Meet the Kappa #tick (Amblyomma kappa) a #newspecies we just described from #Japan. We named it after a Japanese #yokai/monster called a #kappa which is a large humanoid reptilian creature often associated with water.

@PatLatas X/Twitter already rankles me enough so I’ve tried to avoid Mastodon/Threads/Blue Sky - do you prefer it?

@Arachno_AZ Good stuff!

RT @OryxTheJournal: 🚨Call for articles📣 We are seeking manuscripts on applied parasite conservation, including subjects such as monitoring,…

The Ryukyu Rabbit #Tick is featured at the #INSECT MANIAC exhibition at the National Museum of Nature and Science @museum_kahaku in Tokyo (and in the book produced for the exhibition) Thank-you Shimano sensei @freeliving_mite for helping to highlight this endangered species!

Meet the Ryukyu rabbit #tick (Haemaphysalis pentalagi), the focus of the world’s first #conservation program for a globally #threatened #parasite! This tiny tick lives only in the Amamiōshima island group in south #Japan. This is the first footage ever taken of this rare species!