According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

After a warmer winter, the Kent County Health Department is warning about an increase in the tick population this year. “Over ...

also known as a deer tick. Unengorged adult blacklegged ticks are about the size of a sesame seed, flat, oval-shaped, dark reddish-brown and have eight legs. Nymphs (baby ticks) and larvae are ...

A Montana hunter discovered an unusual-looking tick on her dog and submitted it to a research lab; it was discovered that ...

A Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist shows samples of blacklegged, or deer, ticks that are known to carry Lyme and other diseases. While the knowledge of ticks being vectors for Lyme ...

Ticks are arachnids closely related to mites and spiders, according to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and they feed on blood from deer ...