Publications

adaptations of membrane feeding techniques for feeding the squirrel flea, orchopeas howardi, and the squirrel louse, neohaematopinus sciuropteri, with notes on the feeding of the human body louse, pediculus humanus var. corporis.		1978	633302
epizootiology of epidemic typhus (rickettsia prowazekii) in flying squirrels.	vector transmission of rickettsia prowazekii among wild flying squirrels, glaucomys volans, was suggested by the occurrence of natural infection of squirrel lice and fleas. lice, mostly neohaematopinus sciuropteri osburn, were found infected in the fall in each of 2 consecutive years; 4 of the 8 pools of this insect tested were infected. fleas, orchopeas howardii (baker), were found infected on two occasions in 1 of the 2 consecutive years. however, only 2 of 14 flea pools were infected. no evid ...	1978	646026
sucking lice (anoplura) of mammals of tennessee.	twenty-five species of sucking lice are recorded from wild and domestic mammals, including humans, from tennessee. collections of 10 of these species (haematopinus eurysternus, hoplopleura captiosa, hoplopleura hirsuta, hoplopleura oryzomydis, hoplopleura trispinosa, linognathus africanus, linognathus setosus, linognathus vituli, neohaematopinus sciuropteri and polyplax auricularis) represent newly documented state records. host specificity was exhibited by 22 species of lice with each of these ...	1997	9221741
fleas and lice parasitizing mammals in missouri.	three species of chewing lice, 11 species of sucking lice, and 28 species of fleas are recorded from mammals in missouri. of these, seven species of sucking lice (hoplopleura acanthopus, hoplopleura hesperomydis, hoplopleura sciuricola, neohaematopinus sciuri, neohaematopinus sciurinus, neohaematopinus sciuropteri, and solenopotes ferrisi) and one species of flea (doratopsylla blarinae) represent new state records. from 1993 to 1995, 773 individual mammals were examined for ectoparasites in sout ...	1997	9491363
ectoparasites and gastrointestinal helminths of southern flying squirrels in southeast georgia.	southern flying squirrels (glaucomys volans) from southeastern georgia were examined for ectoparasites and gastrointestinal helminths. ten species of ectoparasites were recovered, including 3 species of sucking lice (hoplopleura trispinosa, microphthirus uncinatus, and neohaematopinus sciuropteri), 1 species of flea (orchopeas howardi), 2 species of ticks (amblyomma maculatum and ixodes scapularis), 3 species of mesostigmatid mites (androlaelaps casalis, a. fahrenholzi, and haemogamasus ambulans ...	2000	11128479