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Data on flea control using FipBit fipronil bait pellets with black-tailed prairie dogs, South Dakota, 2020-2021 We live-trapped black-tailed prairie dogs on Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2020-2021. We anesthetized trapped animals (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. The total flea count from an individual prairie dog was considered an index of flea abundance. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. Data were collected on sites treated with fipronil "FipBit" bait pellets for systemic flea control with prairie dogs. Sites were treated with FipBits containing 0.68, 0.71, or 0.83 milligrams of fipronil per FipBit. The... Categories: Data; Tags: Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cynomys ludovicianus, Ecology, Fipronil, Flea, All tags... Plague, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Data on the effects of F1-V plague antigen vaccination and deltamethrin dust on black-tailed prairie dog annual survival and flea parasitism, South Dakota, 2007-2009 We studied black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) on the Conata Basin, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, USA, 2007-2009. We live-trapped and sampled prairie dogs in 2007 (before known invasion of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis), 2008 (the year of confirmed invasion), and 2009 (after invasion). Sampling was completed on three 9-ha plots treated annually with deltamethrin dust for flea (Y. pestis-vector) control and three 9-ha plots lacking flea control (non-dusted) as baselines. Each live-trapped prairie dog was marked with ear tags for permanent identification and tracking of survival. If a marked prairie dog was recaptured and identified (via ear tags) the following year, the prairie... Categories: Data; Tags: Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Conata Basin, Cynomys ludovicianus, Deltamethrin, Ecology, All tags... Environmental Health, Flea, Plague, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vaccine, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Data on black-tailed prairie dog body condition, annual and monthly survival, and reproduction on sites treated or not treated with 0.005% fipronil grain for flea control and plague mitigation in South Dakota, USA, 2017-2020 We live-trapped and sampled black-tailed prairie dogs in Badlands National Park and Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2017-2020. Sampling occurred on sites treated with 0.005% fipronil grain for flea control and plague mitigation, and non-treated sites functioning as experimental baselines. Prairie dogs were trapped, sexed, aged (adult or juvenile by size), weighed to the nearest 5 grams, and marked with ear tags for permanent identification. The length of each prairie dog's right hind foot was measured to the nearest millimeter, and the animal's body condition was indexed as a mass:foot ratio. We evaluated effects of fipronil grain on prairie dog body condition, monthly and annual survival, and reproduction.... Categories: Data; Tags: Badlands National Park, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cynomys ludovicianus, Ecology, Environmental Health, All tags... Fipronil, Flea, Plague, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Data on flea control using lufenuron and nitenpyram baits with black-tailed prairie dogs, South Dakota, 2021 We collected fleas from a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs on Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2021. We collected flea data by combing prairie dogs and swabbing their burrows for fleas. Regarding combing, we anesthetized trapped prairie dogs (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. Regarding burrow swabbing, we used a plumber’s cable to insert a 20- by 20-centimeter flannel-cloth as deep as possible into burrow tunnels. We then shook the cable for 30 seconds to imitate... Categories: Data; Tags: Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cynomys ludovicianus, Ecology, Fipronil, Flea, All tags... Plague, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Fleas collected from black-tailed prairie dog burrows in 2016 and 2017 The data are a list of the number and species of fleas that were collected from black-tailed prairie dog burrows in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, and New Mexico. Fleas were collected by swabbing ~100 burrows at 3 sites at each of 6 sites. Burrows were sampled twice each summer during 2016 and 2017. Categories: Data; Tags: BLM Pecos District, Black-tailed prairie dogs, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, All tags... Oropsylla hirsuta, Oropsylla tuberculata, Polygenis gwyni, Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, Pulex simulans, Theodore Roosevelt National Park South Unit, Thrassis fotus, UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, biota, burrows, fleas, Fewer tags Data on long-term flea control using fipronil grain bait with black-tailed prairie dogs, South Dakota, 2020-2022 We collected fleas from black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) on Buffalo Gap National Grassland and Badlands National Park, South Dakota, 2020-2022. We anesthetized trapped prairie dogs (and their fleas) with isoflurane in induction chambers for processing. We combed each individual with a fine-tooth comb for 30 seconds to remove and count fleas. We released all animals, after they were recovered from anesthesia, at the location where they were captured. Total flea counts from individual prairie dogs were considered an index of flea abundance. During 2018-2020, we provided prairie dogs on 21 sites with grain bait, laced with fipronil (0.005% by weight) by placing 1/2 cup or 1/4 cup of grain at each prairie... Categories: Data; Tags: Badlands National Park, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cynomys ludovicianus, Ecology, Environmental Health, All tags... Fipronil, Flea, Plague, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Data on black-tailed prairie dog body mass, distance to nearest male and female black-footed ferret, distance to nearest American badger, and reencounter from early to late summer 2005 (Montana) and 2009 (South Dakota) Our study was conducted in 2005 on 3 colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs on lands in Phillips County, Montana administered by the Bureau of Land Management and in 2009 on a colony of black-tailed prairie dogs on Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Pennington County, South Dakota managed by U.S. Forest Service. We live-trapped black-tailed prairie dogs in daylight with wire mesh traps and marked their ears with numbered tags for individual identification. We weighed each individual to the nearest gram and collected Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates of their trapping locations over time. In Montana, trapping began on 15 June 2005 and ended on 1 October 2005. In South Dakota, trapping was conducted during 7 June... Categories: Data; Tags: American badger, Black-footed ferret, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Cynomys ludovicianus, Ecology, All tags... Montana, Mustela nigripes, Pennington County, Phillips County, Prairie dog, South Dakota, Taxidea taxus, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, ecology, Fewer tags Plague causes fragmentation of prairie dog colonies in Conata Basin, South Dakota from 1993 – 2015 This data was used to investigate the invasion of a non-native disease, plague, to a keystone species, prairie dogs, in Conata Basin, South Dakota, United States. We documented the resulting extent of fragmentation and habitat loss in western grasslands using colony boundaries mapped by the USFS every one to three years from 1993 - 2015. Specifically, we assessed how the arrival of plague in 2008, affected the size, shape, and aggregation of prairie dog colonies, an animal species known to be highly susceptible to plague. As expected the colony complex and the patches in colonies became smaller and more fragmented after the arrival of plague; the total area of each colony and the average area per patch within a... Categories: Data; Tags: Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Conata Basin, South Dakota, Scuiridae, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Ecology, All tags... Wildlife Disease, biota, plague, prairie dog, Fewer tags Data on the Efficacy of Five Pulicides as Tools for Suppressing Fleas on Black-tailed Prairie Dogs, South Dakota, 2015-2017 Data on the efficacy of 5 pulicides as tools for suppressing fleas on black-tailed prairie dogs in Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota, 2015-2017. Fleas were collected from live-trapped prairie dogs on non-treated (CONTROL) sites and nearby sites treated with pulicides for flea control. Data are from 3 prairie dog colonies (South Exclosure, Cutbank, and Big Foot). We tested the following pulicides: Alpine ALPINE dust (0.25% dinotefuran wih 95% diatomaceous earth), Dusta-cide MALATHION dust (6% malathion), Sevin SEVIN dust (5% carbaryl), Tri-Die TRIDIE dust (1% pyrethrum with 40% amorphous silica and 10% piperonyl butoxide), and FIPRONIL grain (0.005% fipronil). Two sets of data are presented, each with... Categories: Data; Tags: Black-footed ferret, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Flea, Insecticide, Plague, All tags... Prairie Dog, Pulicide, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Yersinia pestis, biota, Fewer tags