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  1. Blacklegged (Deer) Tick, Ixodes scapularis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0096

    companion animals with pathogens that cause diseases. Preventing tick bites is the best protection from ... tickborne disease (box 1). If you find a tick biting you, remove the tick as soon as possible (box 2), note ... adult male ticks are uniformly covered by a dark brown shield or “scutum.” This shield partially covers ...

  2. Basic Principles of Pruning Backyard Grapevines

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-1428

    HYG-1428 02/08/2017 Maurus Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus, OSU South Centers Gary Gao, ... weeding, fertilizing, insect and disease control, and proper pruning to assure a bountiful harvest. For ... a reddish-brown color and will be approximately pencil size in diameter. Two of these canes are selected and tied ...

  3. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants: Common and Japanese Barberry

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0106

    acting as an alternative host for the disease, black stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccina graminis. As ... public health threat to humans, companion animals, and livestock. Multiple diseases of consequence such ... as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and anaplasmosis can be vectored or transmitted by ...

  4. Shigella: Bacteria that Causes the Foodborne Illness Shigellosis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5563

    children with the disease can have seizures. Symptoms can take as long as a week to show up, but most often ... weeks. The bacteria must be swallowed to cause disease. They are often spread when people do not wash ... swallow the water or even get their lips wet. If you think you might have this disease, you should see ...

  5. Sarah M. Short

    https://entomology.osu.edu/our-people/sarah-m-short

    microbiome, mosquito immune defense, and novel pathogens of disease vector mosquitoes. I teach Vector Biology ... and Vector Borne Disease (ENTMLGY 5605) and Insect Pathology (ENTMLGY 5121). My extension program is ... primarily focused on ticks, tick-borne disease, and tick bite prevention. Visit us at ...

  6. Freezing and Canning Venison

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5367

    common parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, the cause of the disease toxoplasmosis. Symptoms of illnesses ... meat will be reduced. Other Safety Precautions The Centers for Disease Control recommend that “hunters ... should avoid eating meat from deer and elk that look sick or test positive for chronic wasting disease ...

  7. Narrow Row Spacing in Corn: Management Considerations for Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0152

    disease issues, and response to foliar inputs of nitrogen (N) and fungicide. The trials were conducted ... foliar disease ratings, according to company literature, were used to assess differences in foliar ... disease and response to fungicide and foliar nitrogen (N) when grown in narrow (15-inch) or conventional ...

  8. Forest Products Terminology

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-85

    such as steel. Annual Ring —or growth ring, the portion of wood encompassing one earlywood section and ... one latewood section. The annual ring constitutes one growing season. Ash —a collective term for the ... ring. Digester —a heated pressure vessel used to make wood pulp for papermaking in which wood is mixed ...

  9. Important Dates and Deadlines

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/node/966

    updates frequently so be sure to check back often.  We will also post links to recorded information ...

  10. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-1037

    lungs.  Disease severity ranges from mild to severe illness and can cause death. The flu infects many ... domestic poultry (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017). There are four types of flu: Influenza ... currently thought to infect only cattle and pigs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021, and ...

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