Table 3.
Adult tick species composition of sites where A. maculatum was collected, 2010–2014. Site codes correspond to those mapped in Figure 1. Combined 2010–2014 collections of questing adult Amblyomma maculatum (AM), Dermacentor variabilis (DV), Amblyomma americanum (AA), Ixodes affinis (IA), and Ixodes scapularis (IS) are included for each site.
| County | Site | DV | AA | IS | AM | IA | Total adults | % AM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake | CHS | 879 | 1360 | 50 | 270 | 130 | 2689 | 10.04% |
| Chesapeake | CH2 | 234 | 202 | 1 | 24 | 25 | 486 | 4.94% |
| Hampton | HAM | 112 | 586 | 41 | 9 | 17 | 765 | 1.18% |
| Northampton | CAP | 65 | 448 | 17 | 1 | 42 | 573 | 0.17% |
| Portsmouth | PT1 | 135 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 165 | 1.82% |
| Virginia Beach | VB1 | 83 | 298 | 9 | 91 | 3 | 484 | 18.80% |
| Virginia Beach | VB3 | 25 | 857 | 77 | 1 | 321 | 1281 | 0.08% |
| York | YRK | 27 | 1423 | 54 | 14 | 57 | 1575 | 0.89% |
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| Total | 1560 | 5199 | 251 | 413 | 595 | 8018 | 5.15% | |