Deer butchers and hunters processing their own deer share that whitetail deer harvests are coming in with extremely high counts of deer ticks. One local butcher friend of mine counted more than 60 ...

A peaceful walk with her dog led to Sandra Issa acquiring a tick bite — and, ultimately, to her having to stay away from red ...

Deer ticks that can carry Lyme disease are very tiny, as shown here scaled on a dime in their various 24 months of life stages. Photo courtesy of CDC With hunting season in full swing, the threat of ...

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is urging all Maine people and visitors to take steps to ...

While tick activity does slow down, it certainly doesn’t stop, especially on those winter days that aren’t as cold.

EME is one of several bacteria species found across the U.S. that can cause a condition called ehrlichiosis. Symptoms of the ...

But what’s not so cute is when she’s chowing down on your vegetable garden or devouring your hostas and daylilies. Even if ...

Dense thickets of barberry in a forest's understory also provide cover for mice — a main host of blacklegged ticks, also called deer ticks. “They can hide in these really dense infestations ...

Oklahoma State University research has identified a link between elevated tick populations and westward expansion of this ...

Once infected, the tick can transmit the disease to its next host. Deer ticks are extremely small, with tick nymphs being about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. This means that you ...