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The first cases of human infection with <jats:italic>B. miyamotoi<\/jats:italic> were identified in 2011. In the eastern USA, blacklegged ticks (<jats:italic>Ixodes scapularis<\/jats:italic>) become infected by feeding on an infected vertebrate host, or through transovarial transmission. We surveyed <jats:italic>B. miyamotoi<\/jats:italic> prevalence in ticks within forested habitats in Dutchess County, New York, and identified possible reservoir hosts. To assess spatial variation in infection, we collected questing nymphal ticks at &gt;\u00a0150 sites. To assess temporal variation in infection, we collected questing nymphs for 8 years at a single study site. We collected questing larval ticks from nine plots to estimate the amount of transovarial transmission. To evaluate potential reservoir hosts, we captured 14 species of mammal and bird hosts naturally infested with larval blacklegged ticks and held these hosts in the laboratory until ticks fed to repletion and molted to nymphs. 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