@article {46163,
	title = {Winter ectoparasites of mammals in the northeastern piedmont area of Georgia},
	journal = {Journal of Vector Ecology},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2000},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {23 - 27},
	abstract = {Twenty-three species of ectoparasites were recovered from 10 species of mammals (89 individuals) in Mistletoe State Park, Columbia County, Georgia, during three winter months of 1998. The collection consisted of 9 species of fleas, 6 mites, 4 sucking lice, 3 ticks, and 1 mammal-associated beetle. Some rarely-collected arthropods were recorded including the ctenophthalmid fleas, Doratopsylla blarinae C. Fox and Epitedia cavernicola Traub, the laelapid mite, Echinonyssus blarinae (Herrin) (first records from Georgia for these three ectoparasites), and the leptinid beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus Peck (second record for Georgia). Varying degrees of host-specificity were exhibited by the 23 species of ectoparasites. Because relatively few mammal ectoparasite surveys are completed during the winter months, some seemingly rare species may, in reality, be more common at this time of year.},
	keywords = {animals, Beetles, fleas, geography, Georgia, lice, mammal, mites, parasite, Research Support, U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t, P.H.S., Rodentia/parasitology, Seasons, ticks},
	isbn = {1081-1710},
	author = {Hu,R. and Lance A. Durden and James H. Oliver Jr}
}
@article {39754,
	title = {Rodent ectoparasites from two locations in northwestern Florida},
	journal = {Journal of Vector Ecology},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2000},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {222 - 228},
	abstract = {From Feb.-Apr. 1999, 19 species of ectoparasitic arthropods (2 sucking lice, 4 fleas, 4 ticks, 2 mesostigmatid mites, 5 chiggers, 2 fur mites) were recovered from 106 rodents belonging to 5 species (cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus, n=64; cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, n=23; eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana, n=9: golden mouse, Ochrotomys nuttalli, n=9; eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, n=1) at Tall Timbers Research Station, Leon County, Florida. During the same period, 13 species of ectoparasites (2 sucking lice, 1 flea, 3 ticks, 3 mesostigmatid mites, 2 chiggers, 2 fur mites) were recovered from 57 rodents belonging to 3 species (S. hispidus, n=40; black rat, Rattus rattus, n=16; S. carolinensis, n=1) from Panama City, Bay County, Florida. Noteworthy ectoparasite records include Ixodes minor from both sites, which extends the known geographical range of this tick, and Stenoponia americana from Tall Timbers that represents the second documented Florida record of this flea. Potential tick vectors (Dermacentor variabilis and Ixodes scapularis) of zoonotic pathogens (Rickettsia rickettsii and Borrelia burgdorferi) were collected at both sites. On S. hispidus, fleas were more prevalent at Tall Timbers but sucking lice, chiggers, ticks, mesostigmatid and listrophorid mites all were more prevalent at the Panama City site. Arthropods recovered from arboreal nests (n=3) of O, nuttalli at Tall Timbers included 3 species of ectoparasites (1 tick, 2 laelapid mites).},
	keywords = {Acari, Borrelia, ectoparasite, Florida, lyme, rodents, south carolina},
	url = {http://www.phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/2168.pdf},
	author = {Lance A. Durden and Hu,R. J. and James H. Oliver Jr and Cilek,J. E.}
}
