It wouldn’t be the beginning of summer if I or a family member didn’t find a tick crawling on our body. It may be our love ...

Male ticks don’t grow in size after feeding ... including cats and humans. Unfed adult brown dog ticks have a reddish-brown ...

American dog ticks and brown dog ticks. After a tick egg hatches, it goes through three life stages: larva, nymph and adult. Both male and female ticks feed on blood by inserting their barbed ...

With climate change, more species of ticks are spreading north into Canada while others are expanding their range here. Adult male dog tick. Researchers find that a high percent of dog ticks carry ...

Tick-Borne Diseases: Black-legged ticks are known for transmitting Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis. Overview: The American dog tick is a larger type of tick. Females have a distinctive ...

In other words, adult ticks have already had two previous ... which have dark brown bodies. Male American dog ticks present a mottled gray pattern, while females have an off-white scutum.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have made a promising discovery that could lead to the development of a ...

From left, nymph, adult male, adult female, engorged female. On the bottom row is the dermacentor variabilis, or "American dog tick." From left, adult male, adult female, engorged female.

How to "fight the bite" during an uptick in the insects in Illinois as warmer weather has more people and pets heading ...