Even in northern-tier Midwestern states, ticks are active and crawling for seven months or more yearly, and smart hunters everywhere will take precautions to prevent disease-carrying tick bites. I’ve ...

Learning how to avoid ticks while hiking is essential for every outdoor enthusiast who wants to enjoy the great ...

Black-legged ticks, like the adult female pictured, are found throughout South Carolina. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention As South Carolinians enjoy the great outdoors this summer ...

One preventative measure you can take against ticks is to treat your clothing and gear with products containing 0.5% permethrin. Permethrin can be used on boots, clothing and camping gear, and it ...

The Allegheny County Health Department’s vector control specialist, Nick Baldauf, is kicking off mosquito and tick surveillance season by monitoring ticks in Schenley Park and Highland Park.

4.) Avoid contact with ticks. After You Come Inside: 5.) Check your clothes for ticks. Ticks may be carried into the house on clothing. Any ticks that are found should be removed.

Ticks are prevalent in Colorado, especially during spring and early summer, and can transmit diseases. Prevent tick bites by staying on trail centers, using permethrin-treated clothing, and ...

Here’s a smart way to fight ticks, according to a tick expert Spray shoes with permethrin, an insecticide, once a month, says public health entomologist Thomas Mather, who goes by the nickname ...

Deer ticks are the most common ticks in Wisconsin that sicken people, and about 20 to 40% of adult deer ticks carry disease, he said. But the good news is "tick-borne disease is almost entirely ...

Deer ticks are the most common ticks in Wisconsin that sicken people, and about 20 to 40% of adult deer ticks carry disease, he said. But the good news is "tick-borne disease is almost entirely ...

Ten years ago, the ratio of black-legged ticks to lone star ticks was 50 to 1. Now, Mather said, the ratio has narrowed to 3 to 1, based on data from TickEncounter.