U.S. National Tick Collection, Scientific collection at Georgia Southern University, United States
The U.S. National Tick Collection is a scientific collection housed at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, holding over a million tick specimens from many species. The specimens come from across North America and other regions of the world, and are accessible online through the university's digital archive.
The collection was founded in 1996 and gradually grew into one of the main reference resources for tick research in the United States. Over the years it expanded with specimens from a growing number of regions, strengthening its role in the study of how ticks transmit disease.
The collection is used by researchers who study how ticks relate to human and animal diseases. For anyone working in parasitology or public health, it serves as a hands-on reference that connects field observations to laboratory work.
The collection is not open to the general public but can be browsed online through Georgia Southern University's Digital Commons portal. Anyone wishing to access the physical specimens directly should contact the university in advance.
The collection offers an interactive identification tool focused on hard tick species found in the eastern United States, designed for use by both researchers and citizen scientists. It is one of the few publicly available digital tools of its kind in the country.
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