Tick bites are common, and with the rising incidences of Lyme disease, engorged ticks are a concern. However, not all ticks ...

It’s a drag: In a photo from 2013, Joanna Weeks ’13 drags a cloth to collect ticks working with W&M biologists Matthias Leu (left) and Oliver Kerscher. The three were among the co-authors on a 2019 ...

Many people wonder what deer ticks look like. Female and male deer ticks have similar physical characteristics. Female ticks grow to be around 1/8”, while males are smaller and reach only 1/16”.

Every year, nearly 31 million people in the U.S. are bitten by a tick. Tick-related illnesses like Lyme disease are on the ...

Tick ecologists like Griffin Dill are tracking the deer tick’s march across all 16 of Maine’s counties. Dill surveys fields in search of “established” populations, dragging what looks like ...

“However, it looks like it’s going to be compromised from a vision standpoint for the rest of its life. Given how many ticks can affect a deer, this is a lucky fawn.” Ticks (and Tickborne Diseases) ...

As summertime family activities are in full swing, simultaneously, so is tick season. And while most tick bites are harmless, ...

WORCESTER ― The number of ticks in Massachusetts is increasing, according to some experts, and that means the risk of ...

Ticks are tiny, hard to kill, and they carry devastating diseases. To get people to understand how scary that is and how hard they can be to spot, the CDC recently tweeted a terrifying image of a ...

They noticed the ticks — which look like moving poppy seeds — encroaching on roads, beaches, playgrounds, cemeteries and library floors. They saw them clinging to dogs, ... Often, they appear in ...

It’s a drag: In a photo from 2013, Joanna Weeks ’13 drags a cloth to collect ticks working with W&M biologists Matthias Leu (left) and Oliver Kerscher. The three were among the co-authors on a 2019 ...