Fonseca Lab

Its a ticky world!

Three nymphs of blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, also three nymphs of lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, and eight nymphs of the exotic longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, all found during surveillance of the Rutgers Cook campus. We are developing strategies for Integrated Pest Management for… Read More

Heads-up: NJMCA and AMCA meetings

UPDATE: Melvin has agreed to deliver the talk/poster (TBD) on the expansion of Aedes atlanticus in NJ at NJMCA (!) Hi everyone! While the deadline for abstract submission is long gone (September 15, I think), if you are talking at… Read More

Welcome Melvin!

The Fonseca Lab would like to officially welcome Melvin DelVillar to our lab. He is an undergraduate student in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, and is pursuing a BS in both Entomology and… Read More