In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in areas where pheasants are released, new research shows.

Ticks can spread Lyme disease and give people red meat allergies, and now there’s increasing worry in Minnesota about another ...

Ticks are most active between May and October in Pennsylvania, but it doesn’t mean that they’re not out there now. Already, more than 1,500 cases of Lyme disease — which is spread through the bites of ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer ...

With the warm weather comes deer ticks ... of a microscope identifying mosquitoes and ticks and black flies," said Scott Larson. Such is the life of an entomologist at the Metropolitan Mosquito ...

In fact, the University of Rhode Island’s Tick Encounter Resource Center (TERC) reports the results of a study in which immature deer ticks that were exposed to indoor humidity levels of 75 ...

Young larvae feast on wax cells, pollen and nectar stores, and the corpses and droppings of the hosts, while older larvae attack living host larvae for food. Heavy infestations may wipe out their ...

Blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks, are often found around Nova Scotia, hiding in long grass and attaching to a host without notice. Bites from these insects can result in Lyme and other diseases in ...

as it would allow for the “reckless transfer of diseased deer” all across the state. “This is totally unacceptable,” Blankenship said. Dac Collins is the News Editor at Outdoor Life. He helps tell the ...

"If you go walking in these sorts of places the best thing to do is check, when you get home, that you don't have any ticks on you and if you have remove them safely." A black-legged tick, also called ...