Infested

What do you give an injured lemon? LEMON-AID! Today’s podcast is all about saving the citrus, protecting the OJ, rescuing the grapefruits and pomelos: we are talking about citrus greening disease! Learn all about this insect vector sucking up tree phloem like a goshdarn juice box and how it spits out dangerous bacteria. Hear Lindsay discuss why we need citrus in our diet and why you’ve seen so many non-Navel orange fruits in your local supermarket. Get comfy. Pour a glass of orange juice or lemonade. This is Infested. Links to our Social Media Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @Infestedpodcast Follow Lindsay on Twitter @Baxter.Lindsay Email us at Infestedpodcast@gmail.com This Podcast is produced and edited by Lindsay and Bailey. Their views and opinions are theirs and do not reflect the institution for which they are employed   Literature Cited  (Asian citrus psyllid - Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) . 2020. Asian citrus psyllid - Diaphorina citri Kuwayama. (http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/acpsyllid.h

Pop in your headphones, turn up the car stereo, and grab a snack: today’s episode is INFESTED FOODS. You heard us right! Lindsay and Bailey take a journey outside disease vectors to discuss two unique cases of when food goes ary or shall we say a-FLY… Listen to hear Lindsay stump Bailey with a case study about a disease exponentially increasing with climate change. Stick around to hear Bailey highlight about a very rare cheese and its special inhabitant! Links to our Social Media Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @Infestedpodcast Follow Lindsay on Twitter @Baxter.Lindsay Email us at Infestedpodcast@gmail.com This podcast is produced and edited by Lindsay and Bailey. Their views and opinions are theirs and do not reflect the institution for which they are employed. References Cited Ciguatera Olsen, D. A. (1988). The Impact of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning within a Changing Caribbean Environment. Population and Environment, 10(1), 14–31. JSTOR. Pearn, J. (2001). Neurology of ciguatera. Journal of Neurology, Neurosu

In this episode, we cover the oddball insect: the tsetse fly. Learn about its odd biology, hear about a parasitic disease it transmits, and listen to some of the different forms of vector control used to control it. Stick around as Bailey and Lindsay discuss the Wuhan coronavirus and its impact. Links to our Social Media Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @Infestedpodcast Follow Lindsay on Twitter @Baxter.Lindsay Email us at Infestedpodcast@gmail.com This Podcast is produced and edited by Lindsay and Bailey. Their views and opinions are theirs and do not reflect the institution for which they are employed References Cited   Angier, N. 2019. Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way. New York Times. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/science/milk-animals-evolution.html). Bhanoo, S. N. 2012. Tsetse Flies and Mammals Share a Milk Enzyme. New York Times. (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/science/tsetse-flies-and-mammals-share-a-milk-enzyme.html). Coren, M. J. 2020. China says the Wuhan virus

It’s the second episode of Infested! Let’s dive into an insect everyone loves to hate and a disease that will make your skin crawl. Yep,  we are talking about pesky blackflies and the almost-eradicated disease they transmit: River blindness! Buckle in for all the entomology & vector-borne disease goodness along with a global health tale showing the value of vector control and multinational cooperation. Women for Women International Books  Comstock, J. H. (1949). An introduction to entomology. Retrieved from http://archive.org/details/introductiontoen1949coms Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Boussinesq, M. (2018). A new powerful drug to combat river blindness - The Lancet. The Lancet, 392(10154), 1170–1172. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30101-6 Hall, L. R., & Pearlman, E. (1999). Pathogenesis of Onchocercal Keratitis (River Blindness). Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 12(3), 445–453. Lamberton, P. H. L., Cheke, R. A., Walker, M., Winskill, P., Crainey, J. L., Boakye, D. A., … Basañez, M.-G. (2016).

In this very first episode of Infested, we covered unique aspects of flea biology such as solenophagy, high strength legs and jumping capabilities through resilin protein, the benefits of having a laterally compressed body, as well as speciation through genal and pronotal combs. We covered the flea life cycle starting from the egg through to adult emergence including how pupae can survive dormant for years and will rapidly emerge with new host signs. One of the diseases that we discussed was plague, specifically Bubonic plague. Bubonic plague is caused by the transmission of Yersinia pestis bacteria into a vertebrate host through an infected flea bite. The bacteria are regurgitated into the host as the flea tries to take a blood meal while the bacteria forms a thick blockage in its upper digestive tract. We discussed some of the symptoms of plague as well as the historical implications of plague as it has consistently shaped history. Plague is still around today, including endemic levels in the Southwestern U