Publications

*Student Authors

Craig, M.*, Sither, C., Mullin, M.*, Foster, M, Turner, E., Kenney, J., Connelly, R., Doyle, M., Williams, C., Byrd, B.D. Evaluation of Surveillance Traps for Host-Seeking La Crosse Virus Vectors in Southern Appalachia.  Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. In Review.

Campbell, M., Mullen, M.*, Connelly, R., Super, P. and Byrd, B.D. Aedes japonicus: A Tenant Invader in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2025 41(1) 34-38.

Davis, J.D.*, Atkins, C., Williams, C. Doyle, M., Boyce, R., Byrd, B.D. Endemic neuroinvasive La Crosse virus disease in North Carolina: 2000-2020. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2024 85(4) 195-301. PMID: 39466102

Day, C.A.*, Odoi, A.O., Moncayo, A., Doyle, M.S., Williams, C.J., Byrd, B.D., Trout Fryxell, R.T. Persistent Spatial Clustering and Predictors of Pediatric La Crosse virus Neuroinvasive Disease Risk in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, 2003-2020. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease. 2024 Jun 6;18(6):e0012186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012186. PMID: 38843214

Nordgulen, M., Lewandowski, K.*, Burkett-Cadena, N., Mathias, D., Byrd, B.D. La Crosse virus vector resting behaviors- field studies with Prokopak and resting shelter collections provide low yield. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2024 Jun 13. doi: 10.2987/23-7161. PMID: 38867353.

Day, C.A.*, Byrd, B.D., Trout-Fryxell, R. La Crosse Virus Neuroinvasive Disease: The Kids Are Not Alright. Journal of Medical Entomology. 2023 60(6):1165-1182. PMID: 37862102

Sither, C.B. *, Sither, J.M., Byrd, B.D. A comparison of oak leaf (Quercus. alba) and hay (Festuca rubra) infusion baited gravid trap collections – an analysis steeped in the context of La Crosse virus vector surveillance effectiveness. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2023 39(2): 138-141. PMID: 37364182

Fields, M., Balanay, J.A.G., Byrd, B.D., Kearney, G.D., Richards, S.L. Retrospective assessment of preparedness for mosquito control post-hurricane Florence in North Carolina. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2023 Oct 18:17:e511. PMID: 37849374

Soghigian, J., Sither, C.B. *, Justi, S.A., Morinaga, G. Cassel, B.K., Vitek, C.J., Livdahl, T., Xia, S. Gloria-Soria, A., Powell, J.R., Zavortink, T., Hardy, C.M., Burkett-Cadena, N.D., Reeves, L.E., Wilkerson, R.C., Dunn, R.R., Yeates, D.K., Sallum, M.A., Byrd, B.D., Trautwein, M.D., Linton, Y.M., Reiskind, M.H., Wiegmann, B.M.  Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes. Nature Communications. 2023 Oct 6;14(1):6252. PMID: 37803007

Nguyen, V., Weaver-Romero, A.L., Wang, X., Tavares, Y., Bauer, A., McDowell, R.C., Dorsainvil, C., Eason, M.D., Malcolm, A.N., Raz, C.D., Byrd, B.D., Riegel, C., Clark, M., Ber, J., Harrison, R.L., Evans, C.L., Zohdy, S., Allen, B., Campbell, L.P., Killingsworth, D., Grey, E.W., Riles, M.T., Lee, Y., Giordano, B.V. Survey of Invasive Mosquito Surveillance and Control Capacity in Southeastern USA Reveals Training and Resource Needs. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2023 39(2):108-121. PMID: 36972520.

McGahey, B., Elliott, L., Byrd, B.D. Preventing La Crosse encephalitis: An underrecognized threat for the pediatric population. Pediatric Nursing Journal. 2022 48 (6).

Richards, S.L., Byrd, B.D., Breidenbaugh, M., Vandock, K. Survey of United States mosquito control programs reveals opportunities to improve the operational value of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bottle bioassays. Journal of Medical Entomology. 2022 59(5). PMID: 35751624

Brown, J.S., Byrd, B.D., Connelly, R.C., Richards, S.L. Operational insights into mosquito control disaster response in coastal North Carolina: Experiences with the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Florence. Journal of Environmental Health. 2022 85(2): 24-31. PMID: 37206159

Seger, K.R., Day, C.A.*, Gaeddert, L., Rao, G., Kahler, A., Ellis, E.M., Ellis, B.R., Byrd, B.D. A cross-sectional household survey in the U.S. Virgin Islands (2019) reveals cisterns as challenging peridomestic Aedes aegypti habitats. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2022 38(2):113-117. PMID: 35588174

White, A., Berl, E., Williams, C., Doyle, M., Smith, D., Byrd, B., Reiskind, M., Richards, S. Horse owner practices and equine and human arboviral encephalitis in North Carolina. Journal of Environmental Health. 2022 84(7): 20-26.

Tamini, T.T., Byrd, B.D., Goggins, J.A.*, Sither, C.B.*, White, L., Wasserberg, G. Peridomestic conditions affect La Crosse virus entomological risk by modifying the habitat use patterns of its mosquito vectors. Journal of Vector Ecology. 2021 46(1): 34-37. PMID: 35229580

Day, C.A.*, Armstrong, E.G.*, Byrd, B.D. Population growth rates of Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae) are depressed at lower temperatures where Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) are naturally abundant in rock pools.  Journal of Medical Entomology. 2021 58(1): 493-497. PMID: 32865211

Day, C.A.*, Lewandowski, K.*, Vonesh, J., Byrd, B.D. Phenology of rock pool mosquitoes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: surveys reveal apparent winter hatching of Aedes japonicus and the potential for asymmetrical stage-specific interactions. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2020 36(4): 216-226. PMID: 33647114

Day C.A.*, Richards, S.L., Reiskind, M.H., Doyle, M.S., Byrd, B.D. Context-dependent accuracy of the BG-counter remote mosquito surveillance in North Carolina. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2020 36(2): 75-80. PMID: 33647123

Day, C.A.*, O’Meara, G.F., Pesko, K.N., Nishimura, N., Byrd, B.D. Diapause influenced oviposition behavior and physical egg hatch cues of Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae): traits that may influence successful colonization of riverine rock pools. Journal of Vector Ecology. 2020 45(2): 197-203. PMID: 33207063 

Byrd, B., Richards, S.L., Runkle, J., Suggs, M.A. Vector-borne diseases and climate change: North Carolina policy should promote regional resilience. Invited Commentary. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2020 81(5): 324-330. PMID: 32900896

Richards, S.L., Byrd, B.D., Reiskind, M.H., White, A.V., 2020. Assessing insecticide resistance in adult mosquitoes: perspectives on current methods. Environmental Health Insights. 2020 14: 1-7. PMID: 32952401

Reiskind, M.H., Styers, D.M., Hayes, I., Richards, S.L., Doyle, M.S., Reed, E.M., Hollingsworth, B., Byrd, B.D. Short-term, large-area survey of container Aedes spp. (Diptera: Culicidae): presence and abundance are associated with fine-scale landscape factors in North Carolina, USA. 2020 Environmental Health Insights. 2020 14(1-9) PMID: 33013159

Sroute, L.*, Byrd, B.D., Huffman, S. Classification of Mosquitoes with Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis. Applied Spectroscopy. 2020. 74(8): 900-912. PMID: 32762360

Schwarz, M., Byrd, B.D., Marayati, B. Blum, P. Wells, M. Greene, A. Taylor, M.*, Wasserberg, G. Horizontal distribution affects the vertical distribution of native and invasive container-inhabiting Aedes mosquitoes within an urban landscape. Journal of Vector Ecology. 2020 45(1) 16-24.  PMID: 32492278

Brooks, D.R., Hoberg, E.P., Boeger, W.A., Gardner, S.L., Araujo, S.B.L., Bajer, K., Botero-Canola, Byrd B., et al. (18 additional co-authors). 2020. Before the pandemic ends: making sure this never happens again. World Complexity Science Academy Journal. 2020 1(1): 1-10.

Seger K. R., Drummond II, A., Delgado, D., Day, C. A.*, Sither, C. B.*, Soghigian, J., Wiegmman, B. M., Reiskind, M. H., Ellis, B. R., Byrd, B. D. First record of Mansonia dyari from St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 2019 35(3) 214-216.

Byrd, B.D., Sither, C.*, Goggins, A.*, Kunze, S.*, Pesko, K., Bustamante, D., Vonesh, J. O’Meara G.  Aquatic Thermal Conditions Predict the Presence of Native and Invasive Rock Pool Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the southern Appalachians, USA. Journal of Vector Ecology. 2019 44(1) 30-39.

Richards, S. L., White, A. V., Byrd, B. D., Reiskind, M. Hl, & Doyle, M. S. (2019) Evaluation of Insecticide Resistance in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North Carolina, 2017. Journal of Medical Entomology. 56(3): 761-773.

Byrd, B. D. and Richards, S. L. (2018) Pests and Vector Control, in Environmental Public Health: The Practitioner's Guide (1st ed., vol. 1). Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Reed, E. M. X. Byrd, B. D., Richards, S. L., Eckardt, M., Williams, C., Reiskind, M. H. (2019) A Statewide Survey of Container Aedes mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in North Carolina, 2016: A Multiagency Surveillance Response to Zika Using Ovitraps. Journal of Medical Entomology. 56(2): 483-490.

Byrd, B. D., Williams, C. J., Staples, J. E., Burhalter, K. L., Savage, H. M., Doyle, M. S. (2018) Notes from the Field: Spatially Associated Coincident and Nocoincident cases of La Crosse Encephalitis - North Carolina, 2002-2017. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. Oct 5; 67(39):1104-1105. 

Lozano-Fuentes, S. Kenney, J. L., Varnado, W., Byrd, B. D., Burkhalter, K. L., & Savage, H. M. (2018) Susceptibility and Vectorial Capacity of American Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to American Zika Virus Strains. Journal of Medical Entomology. 56(1): 233-240.

Richards, S. L., Balanay, J. A. G., White, A., Hope, J., Vandock, K., Byrd, B. D., & Reiskind, M. (2018) Insecticide Susceptibility Screening against Culex and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes in the United States. Journal of Medical Entomology. 55(2): 398-407.

Richards, S. L., Balanay, J. A. G., Byrd, B. D., Reiskind, M. H., Styers, D. M. (2017) Regional survey of mosquito control knowledge and usage in North Carolina. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 333(4): 331-339

Riles, M. T., Smith, J. P., Burkett-Cadena, N., Connelly, R. C., Morse, G. W., & Byrd, B. D. (2017) First record of Aedes japonicus in Florida. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association. 333(4): 340-344.

Kothera, L., Byrd, B. D., Savage, H. (2017) Duplex real-time PCR assay distinguishes Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) using DNA from sonicated first instar larvae. Journal of Medical Entomology. 54(6): 1567-1572.

Byrd, B.D. (2016) La Crosse Encephalitis: A Persistent Arboviral Threat in North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal, 77(5): 330-333.

Harrison, B.A., Byrd B.D., Sither, C.B., and Whitt P.B. (2016) Mosquitoes of the Mid-Atlantic Region: An Identification Guide. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. Mosquito and Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Laboratory Publication 2016-01. 207 pp.

Shroyer, D.A., Harrison, B.A., Bintz, B.J., Wilson, M.R., Sither, C.B., & Byrd, B.D. (2015) Aedes pertinax, a newly recognized mosquito species in the United States. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association,31(1): 97-100.

Sither, C.B., Harrison, B.A., Bintz, B.J., Wilson, M.R., Kim, J., Graham, M., Caillouët, K.A., Hutchinson, M.L., & Byrd, B.D. (2014) First record of Aedes stimulans from Louisiana . Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 30(4): 305-308.

Wilson, R., Harrison, R., Riles, M., Wasserberg, G., & Byrd, B.D. (2014) Molecular identification of Aedes triseriatus and Aedes hendersoni by a novel duplex polymerase chain reaction assay. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 30(2):79-82.

Sither, C.B., Hopkins, V.E., Harrison, B.A., Bintz, B.J., Hickman, E.Y., Brown, J.S., Wilson, M.R., & Byrd, B.D. (2013) Differentiation of Aedes atlanticus and Aedes tormentor by restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the second internal transcribed spacer. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 29(4):376-9.

Turell, M.J., Byrd, B.D., & Harrison, B.A.(2013). Potential for Populations of Aedes j. japonicus to Transmit Rift Valley Fever Virus in the USA. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 29(2):133-137. 2013.

Byrd, B. D., Harrison, B. A., Zavortink, T. J., & Wesson, D. M. (2012). Sequence, Secondary Structure, and Phylogenetic Analyses of the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) in Members of the North American Signifera Group of Orthopodomyia (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 49(6), 1189-1197.

Rider, M. A., Byrd, B. D., Keating, J., Wesson, D. M., & Caillouet, K. A. (2012). PCR detection of malaria parasites in desiccated Anopheles mosquitoes is uninhibited by storage time and temperature . Malaria Journal,11(1), 193.

Byrd, B. D., Gymburch, E. E., O'Meara, G. F., & Wesson, D. M. (2011). Molecular Identification of Aedes bahamensis (Diptera: Culicidae) . Florida Entomologist, 94(4), 1057-1059.

Byrd, B. D., Wesson, D. M., & Harrison, B. A. (2009). Regional Problems Identifying the Fourth Instar Larvae of Orthopodomyia signifera (Coquillett) and Orthopodomyia kummi Edwards(Diptera: Culicidae) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111(3), 752-754.

Kang, S., Sim, C., Byrd, B. D., Collins, F. H., & Hong, Y. S. (2008). Ex vivo promoter analysis of antiviral heat shock cognate 70B gene in Anopheles gambiae . Virol. J, 5, 136.

Colborn, J. M., Byrd, B. D., Koita, O. A., & Krogstad, D. J. (2008). Estimation of copy number using SYBR Green: confounding by AT-rich DNA and by variation in amplicon length . The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 79(6), 887-892.

Palmisano, C. T., Taylor, V., Caillouet, K., Byrd, B.D., & Wesson, D. M. (2005). Impact of West Nile virus outbreak upon St. Tammany Parish mosquito abatement district. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 21(1), 33-38.

Carlson, J. C., Byrd, B. D., & Omlin, F. X. (2004). Field assessments in western Kenya link malaria vectors to environmentally disturbed habitats during the dry season . BMC Public Health, 4(1), 33.