Bergen County Department of Health Services Staff sampling for ticks in the Meadowlands
The Gulf Coast Tick was found recently by the Bergen County Department of Health Services in the Meadowlands for the first time. The Gulf Coast Tick transmits the spotted fever rickettsiosis in humans
Sampling for the Marsh Mosquito (Aedes taeniorhynchus) in the Meadowlands
Matthew Bickerton, entomologist from the Bergen County Department of health services
The marsh mosquitoes are the most common mosquito in the eastern coastal areas of the Americas, and is responsible for a large part of mosquito insecticide applications
