Welcome to the Lloyd Tick Lab!

On these pages you will find information on

tick testing and our research

Are you curious about the American dog tick in New Brunswick?

Thanks to vet clinics and members of the public who submitted their ticks to the lab over the years, the Lloyd Lab has been able to track the spread across the province from 2012 to 2021.
You can read "Establishment and range expansion of Dermacentor variabilis in the northern Maritimes of Canada: Community participatory science documents establishment of an invasive tick species" in PLOS ONE:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292703

Tick testing​ ​
Submit your Ticks 

If you want to submit ticks for identification or testing for Borrelia, please follow the links and directions under the "ticks" tab above.

Research​
​The Team

Current research projects focus on ticks, tick-vectored diseases in wildlife, and Lyme disease in humans.

Community engagement​
​Vector Biology and OneHealth

We welcome comments, suggestions questions and feedback from the community.

Long COVID Surveys + Report

Please visit our COVID Study page for links to surveys and to download our PDF file of our long COVID report.

Tips on Landscaping for Tick Resistance

​By Pamela Baltzer from Heritage Landscape 

Download our PDF file with fantastic tips and tricks on tick-proofing your landscaping:
Images obtained from: https://unsplash.com/
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