FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick ... under the arms or the back of the knees.

As Wisconsin inches closer to summer, people are beginning to spend more time outside, but as lovely as the outdoors can be, ...

Brinkerhoff described the adult females as having “a bronze brownish color, with a white spot on the back ... like dairy. The deer tick, or blacklegged tick, which is known to transmit ...

Ask someone for help with your back ... tick, record where and when you think you were bitten for your records. Lyme disease is spread through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks, also known as ...

And both are covered in dead blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ... spots.” Research specialist Tela Zembsch uses the mannequins at public outreach events to teach people how to conduct better tick ...

Climate change and growing deer populations ... stretching the ticks’ active season from early spring into the late summer or early fall. “When I was starting to work on this back in the ...

Ohio State University offers a Tick Testing Lab service for identifying ticks and potential diseases they carry. Ticks are back in season ... I will say the hot spots are going to be the eastern ...

Ticks tend to like moist, warm areas. For example, under the arms or the back of the knees. If you do find a tick, Bazzoli said it’s best to use tweezers to remove it. And make sure you’re ...