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Coyotes — the predator under watch by UF cameras, scientists

by Brad Buck
May 15, 2024

Every fifteen minutes, 365 days a year, University of Florida scientists can see how and where many coyotes move at two locations in the Sunshine state. Those images show coyotes in two different landscapes in Florida: pine flatwoods in North ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Behavior, Cameras, Coyotes, Deer, DeLuca Preserve, Foraging, GPS Technology, Hance Ellington, Hunting, Jefferson County, Monitoring, Natural Resources, Osceola County, Predators, Range Cattle Research And Education Center, Tall Timbers’ Livingston Place Property, Turkeys, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

Wildlife expert answers questions about COVID-19 and white-tailed deer

by Samantha Murray
January 10, 2022

Recent scientific studies have shown that white-tailed deer, a deer species found all over the eastern United States, can become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. A new University of Florida publication explains what is currently ... READ MORE

Category: Livestock, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Covid-19, Deer, News, Sam Wisely

Vaccine for virus lethal to deer shows promise

by Tory Moore
October 29, 2020

A viral disease that impacts deer around the country can be devastating, but a vaccine shows promise for the $8 billion per year deer farming industry. The disease, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, or EHDV, is the leading cause of herd ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Cervidae Health Research Initiative, CHeRI, Deer, Deer Farming, Deer Farms, EHD, EHDV, White-tailed Deer

UF/IFAS shares in $2.45 million to research tickborne disease risk

by Tom Nordlie
March 21, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- To protect personnel on Southeastern military installations from tickborne diseases, a federal program has awarded a five-year, $2.45 million grant to a team of researchers with the University of Florida Institute of ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Cogongrass, Deer, Flory, Grant, Invasion, Invasive, Military, Pathogen, Tick, Tickborne

Screwworm life cycle and habits contribute to insect’s threat, UF experts say

by Tom Nordlie
October 11, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Florida residents curious or skeptical about the threat posed by the parasitic screwworm fly Cochliomiya hominivorax can rest assured the insect merits all the attention it has received after an outbreak was detected ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Invasive Species, Livestock, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Deer, Entomology And Nematology, Fly, Kaufman, Livestock, Payne

UF/IFAS battling a disease devastating to deer farms and cows

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 5, 2015

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The Florida legislature recently allocated $2 million a year for the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to study Hemorrhagic disease, a virus which affects deer and can cross over into ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Deer, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida

UF/IFAS experts offer wild game processing workshop for hunters

by Tom Nordlie
September 18, 2012

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Hunting can put meat on the family table, and a University of Florida workshop is helping area men and women learn the fine points of bringing that meat home safe and ready to cook or store. It’s called Wild Game Processing: ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, UF/IFAS, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Carr, Deer, Game, Hog, Hunt

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