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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It's May term at UTK & I'm teaching Public Health Entomology We set out mosquito traps along the Greenway yesterday & picked them up today- yep those are skeeters. VectorEd Network's @utknoxville.bsky.social #SunsOutVectorsOut

CVM Public Health student smiles at her mosquito collection. She collected mosquito w a cdc light trap bites with dry ice (which sublimates and emits CO2).

Public Health UG student collected mosquitoes with a gravid trap baited with a liver powder infusion.

A couple of mosquitoes flyingn in the gravid trap

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Look who is right there in the middle! #MEGABITESS educator & middle school educator of the year (for Knox county) Mrs Butterfield from Bearden Middle School! Congrats!

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you work with undergraduate students, please forward (1) Public Health Entomology Training at the Univ of Tennessee via CDC funded VectorEd Network's Student Training Network Students @ Tenn will work w/ agencies on La Crosse virus and other vector-borne diseases. @vectorednetwork.bsky.social

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@ TN Mosquito Vector Control Association to introduce the group to @VectorEdNetwork.bsky.social @viva-tick-chick.bsky.social spoke about evaluating passive surveillance w animal shelters ATucker (not on here) spoke and asked participants about wanted future trainings

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Published Friday, the National One Health Framework to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Advance Public Health Preparedness in the U.S. The dominant word seems to be "coordinate", which, yeah, needed

cdc.gov

Federal One Health Coordination

Learn about the new framework (NOHF-Zoonoses), and CDC's federal coordination to advance One Health.

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Don't miss Popping Protocols this afternoon at 2pm in 222B where you can pitch a protocol based problem, and people in the room can help you try to solve it #entsoc24 #@MUVE_ESA

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Did you miss the conversation about failed experiments? Some notes from this morning below, feel free to add more below!! Many thanks to those who contributed #entsoc24

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

We did it! Just like many talks, as we went up, there was a hole (yep a hole in the balloon!). But we did it, "still fly ready" Not as scary as I thought Glad I did it And met more entomologists through our shared experiences #EntSoc24 @machtingerlab.bsky.social

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I feel connected to the @EntsocAmerica students giving their first talk this morning. Yeah, it's scary, but it'll be ok It'll be ok W @MachtingerLab #EntSoc24

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Yall, it's happening... #MEGABITESS students will be joining students from SC and GA to present their research at the @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB mtg in March. Yes, High School, Middle School, & Elementary School scientists talking BUGS! Catch it Sunday @ noon!🤩

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

New paper alert from an 8yr collaboration w/ @forestservice @usfs_srs. FIA crews checked selves for ticks & sent ticks to us. Then Butler took those GPS points & dates to create this risk map for #tickencounters in the SE US. It's not perfect, but is a good start! journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Started the morning w/ my #Valentine & gave blood Why do we give? Extra months w my mom Extra wks w my dad Extra wks w his bro My nieces & newphews still have their mom For 3 people we may or may not know & their family, friends, & community #snacksforbreakfast #giveblood

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

I've been going nonstop, to the point I was getting stress sick Broken plane kept me in knoxville yesterday, so today... I sorted mosquitoes at work and coins after dinner Yes, I listened to my favorite podcasts and checked 2 boxes that were not a priority

Image of Aedes mosquitoes on a cold tray being sorted by species and sex; just albopictus and triseriatus here

The pennies lined up and ready to be sorted
We are in desperate need of 1982 pennies to complete this book

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

We lost a Hackberry tree about 2 years ago... Our Christmas Elm will take its place Super excited about it Note, there was solid discussion about persimmon, plum, redbud, and dogwood - but the elm won #HappyHolidays

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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

New CDC alert on these cases of tickborne Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - 5 hospitalized - 4 under 18 years old - 3 dead - all recently in Tecate, Mexico CDC now urging doctors "do not delay treatment pending the result of a confirmatory laboratory test" emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han...

A screenshot of text that reads in part: "Consider initiating doxycycline based on presumptive clinical and epidemiologic findings, and do not delay treatment pending the result of a confirmatory laboratory test. Early treatment with doxycycline saves lives. Background RMSF is endemic across northern Mexico and areas of the southwestern United States. In these regions, the pathogen (Rickettsia rickettsii) can be transmitted by brown dog ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) which are closely associated with domestic dogs in urban and peri-urban environments. From July to December 2023, CDC and the California Department of Public Health identified five patients with RMSF who developed the disease within 2 weeks following travel to the city of Tecate in the state of Baja California, Mexico. All patients presented to hospitals in southern California. Four patients were under the age of 18 years. Three patients were U.S. residents, and two were residents of Mexico. All five patients were hospit

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

W/ the busy-ness of #EntSoc23, I want to share this new paper. We report predictors used to find #AsianLonghornedTicks from the field. We also share ideas for running a tick blitz in areas w/o the tick & where to find them on a potentially infested farm. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Becky Trout Fryxell @drvectorbio.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Job announcement! Join the UTK team as part of the VectorEDNetwork. We are looking for someone interested in working w/ the public & training professionals in vector biology, ecology, management. goals are to predict/prevent/respond to vector-borne diseases ut.taleo.net/careersectio...

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