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Statewide Mosquito and Tick Research & Surveillance

The Medical Entomology Lab at the Illinois Natural History Survey conducts research on and surveillance of mosquitoes and ticks that are of medical and veterinary concern to the State of Illinois.

  • We are hiring for two positions at the INHS-MEL located at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. These are jobs with long-term employment potential working with outstanding colleagues in a great environment. Champaign-Urbana is a lively and growing area with excellent recreational and cultural opportunities and a low-cost of living. The University of Illinois…

  • Our advertisement for seasonal hourly technicians is now open! Deadline for full consideration is April 1, 2022. Please see announcement at the INHS website. The work is diverse and provides great field and lab experience. Positions will be focused on one or a combo of: field collections of mosquitoes & ticks, pathogen testing, and organismal lab…

  • “Summer is just about here, and it is shaping up to be a buggy one when it comes to ticks and Lyme disease. If you plan on golfing this summer or swimming at the beach or taking a walk through the woods, it’s not what you want to hear. “Yes, this could be quite a…

  • It’s bug season which in Illinois means ticks (which are actually arachnids, not insects), mosquitoes and other insects are looking to attach themselves to people and pets. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced that May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and here in Illinois, there is a team of entomologists working to track tick and mosquito…

  • Kylee Noel, a PhD student with the Illinois Natural History Survey Medical Entomology Lab, is working with the Illinois Department of Public Health to track how insecticide resistance varies across Illinois Culex mosquito populations. Read the full story: https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7362/839263051

  • CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have confirmed that Heartland virus, an emerging pathogen with potentially dire consequences for those infected, is present in Lone Star ticks in two Illinois counties hundreds of miles apart. Lone Star ticks were first detected in Illinois in 1999 but had not been found to be infected with Heartland virus in…