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Practical and effective tick control tools and strategies are needed to reduce tick encounters and tick-borne disease risk. Tick management tubes have shown varying efficacy when used as part of a tick management plan. To evaluate factors contributing to the efficacy of tick management tubes, this study assessed changes in tick tube deployment on tick burden on wild-caught Peromyscus mice, a primary reservoir for the bacterium causing Lyme disease, in Pennsylvania from 2021 to 2023. Over 2 years, tick tubes were deployed starting at different times of the year, with cotton removal from the tubes assessed every 2 weeks from April to November and tick burden on wild-caught mice assessed every 2 months from April to October of each year. The effect of distance between tick management tubes was assessed in year 3 of this study, with mouse tick burden assessed pre- and post-treatment with tick tubes at varying intervals in a field setting. There was a significant reduction in mouse tick burden between treated and control transects, and pre- and post-treatment transects. Tick tube distance did not affect cotton removal or tick burden on mice. Still, cotton removal was highest in September\u2013October, and amount removed increased the longer tick tubes were deployed in the field, highlighting the long-term benefits of using tick tubes as part of an integrated tick management plan. Future investigations to evaluate the impact of tick management tubes on tick nymph density and infection would be valuable for assessing the effectiveness of tick management tubes in reducing tick bite risk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jme\/tjae114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,1]],"date-time":"2024-10-01T03:40:31Z","timestamp":1727754031000},"page":"1459-1469","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Maximizing and sustaining the efficacy of tick tubes for management of <i>Ixodes scapularis<\/i> through optimized deployment strategies"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"61","author":[{"given":"Hannah S","family":"Tiffin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Pennsylvania State University Department of Entomology, , University Park, PA ,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kylie D","family":"Green","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Pennsylvania State University Department of Entomology, , University Park, PA ,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8144-0897","authenticated-orcid":false,"suffix":"IV","given":"Edwin R","family":"Burgess","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL ,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6492-0901","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erika T","family":"Machtinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Pennsylvania State University Department of Entomology, , University Park, PA ,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,30]]},"reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"2024111417183366300_CIT0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"378","DOI":"10.32614\/RJ-2017-066","article-title":"glmmTMB balances speed and flexibility among packages for zero-inflated generalized linear mixed modeling","volume":"9","author":"Brooks","year":"2017","journal-title":"R J"},{"key":"2024111417183366300_CIT0034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"s1451","DOI":"10.1093\/clinids\/11.Supplement_6.S1451","article-title":"Epizootiology of Borrelia in lxodes tick vectors and reservoir hosts","volume":"ll","author":"Anderson","year":"1989","journal-title":"Rev. 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