Once a month, typically April through September, Mather places his shoes outside and sprays them with a product containing 0.5 percent permethrin ... existing natural products and some proprietary ...

As spring progresses into summer, one of nature’s tiniest terrors becomes active: the tick. They are small, almost ...

Lyme disease cases are rising in Eastern Iowa as tick season peaks. Learn which counties are most affected and how to stay safe outdoors.

Blacklegged ticks are extremely common in Northeastern United States. Recently, these ticks have steadily expanded into other ...

With warm temperatures and sunny days, Grand Strand locals and spring visitors alike are taking advantage of beautiful weather in the Myrtle Beach area. But with the change in weather comes an ...

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPPHS) officials are alerting the public about the recent identification of a tick new to Montana known as Ixodes scapularis, commonly referred ...

Treating clothing with products containing 0.5% permethrin can also help; as can use of insect repellants containing DEET, picaridin, lemo eucalyptus oil, IR3535, para-menthane-diol.

Protect yourself from ticks, caution health experts, to all Hoosiers outside in their yards or hiking in the woods.

Indiana has six ticks that spread diseases and illnesses to people. Each of them has more than one pathogen that they can spread.