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”.

Send ticks packing by clearing away their favorite foods and habitats, and adopting repellents and landscaping techniques ...

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 ...

Red meat allergy, or alpha-gal syndrome, was first reported in 2009 and is still relatively rare but is on the rise.

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

Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

“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) ...

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

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 ...