InvesTICKations

Identify and track your encounters with ticks

InvesTickations is your tool to document, identify, and share ticks that you encounter during routine outdoor activities. These data will be gathered and analyzed to better track where ticks are coming into contact with people and their pets.

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American Dog Tick

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John Doe

American Dog Tick

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John Doe

American Dog Tick

150 Font Blvd 1 hour ago
John Doe

American Dog Tick

150 Font Blvd 1 hour ago
John Doe

Features

Record your Activities

InvesTICKation allows users to add their activities such as hiking, walking, dog walking, rock climbing ect.

Post Observation

With the location sharing of data, users can help keep track of the ticks by reporting their activity details.

Geo Locate Ticks

All the data posted by registered users are parsed and analysed based on statistical analysis model.

Carry out operations Offline

Users can keep their activities and observations data on their local handheld devices and later sync with server

Keep Track of your data

Record all the Activities and Tick Observations and keep track of your data using cloud

Data Analysis

The InvesTICKations project allows Data Analysis on all the user recorded data for research study

InvesTICKations Android Application

InvesTICKations provides a versatile user experience through its Android application. Each user can login/register via the Android application and can use the device to record and post all the activities as well as observations.

Create Activity

A user specifies Activity such as hiking, walking, dog walking etc during his/her pursuit to capture Tick observations. Each Activity is used to build a trajectory of User's path

Activity Details page

List of Activities

Displays list of Activities created by each user. Dispalys Activities created locally as well as synced with cloud server

Activities List

Observation List

Displays a list of Observations made by user. This list also displays Observations that are specific to an Activity

Observations

Ticks List

Displays list of all the Ticks present in the InvesTICKations system.

Ticks

Ixodes pacificus (Western blacklegged tick)

The most common human biting tick in California and western North America and is common throughout the coastal regions in a variety of habitats. It is the primary vector of Lyme disease in California.

Ixodes woodi (Wood tick)

Typically found on woodrats or in their nests in the foothills and low mountainous regions of California. It is infrequently encountered and is not known to transmit any diseases to humans.

Ixodes spinipalpis

A nest dwelling tick that does not tend to bite humans.

Ixodes angustus

Commonly found in cool and moist habitats throughout the United States and Canada, A potential vector of Powassan virus and Lyme disease. This tick primarily feeds on voles and mice, and rarely humans.

Dermacentor occidentalis (Pacific coast tick)

Commonly found throughout California. These human-biting ticks can transmit pathogens responsible for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Pacific coast tick fever, and Tularemia.

Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick)

Distributed throughout the United States, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains but they also occur in the West. D. variabilis occasionally bites humans and is the primary vector of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. D. variabilis is most commonly encountered through dogs, hence the name American dog tick.

Dermacentor andersonii (Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks)

A human-biting tick predominantly found in northeastern California. All life stages can transmit Colorado tick fever virus and Tularemia; adults and nymphs can transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. Adult ticks are primarily associated with pathogen transmission to humans.

Dermacentor albipictus (Winter Tick or Moose Tick)

A one-host tick with a wide distribution in North America. Only larval stage quests – nymph and adults live on host. Preferred host in many areas is moose, hence the common name "moose tick".

Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Brown dog tick)

Distributed worldwide and increasingly common in southern regions of the United States. Highly associated with human development due to association with domestic dogs and commonly found indoors.

Ornithodoros hermsii(soft tick)

A species of soft tick found in woody, high elevation regions along the Eastern portion of California. Also a vector for tick-borne relapsing fever in humans.
Tick image available on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithodoros

Hemaphysalis leporspalustris (Rabbit tick)

3-host hard tick with an extensive range throughout North and South America. Commonly associated with rabbits and hares.

Ixodes scapularis (Blacklegged tick)

An abundant and generalist tick that feeds on a variety of vertebrate hosts. This tick is the most common vector of Lyme disease and babesiosis in the United States.
Image available at TickEncounter: http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification/deer_tick

Amblyomma americanum (Lone star tick)

An aggressive, host-seeking tick endemic to the southeastern United States. In recent years, the geographic range of this species is expanding northward.
Image available at TickEncounter: http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_identification/lone_star_tick

Contact us!

InvesTICKations

San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
www.biology.sfsu.edu