Deer ticks, scientifically known as Ixodes scapularis, are small arachnids found primarily in woodland and grassy areas. They're notorious for their role as vectors for several diseases that ...

The eggs incubate and hatch into larvae in late summer. Larvae attach to small rodents to feed. An engorged deer tick larva ...

Deer ticks tend to prefer a specific elevation that ... enough,” Bradford said gesturing to her white flag covered in small black ticks. “Ticks are in California and they are here year-round ...

A new study finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of the younger ticks in the Northeast US carry the bacteria ...

The deer tick is the size of a poppy seed ... Use a clean tweezers or needle to scrape it off. If a small piece remains, the skin will slowly heal and shed it. After the tick is removed, wash the ...

Humans and other animal species, including dogs and livestock can get a similar illness from ticks. Deer ticks commonly transfer the bacteria from small mammals (deer mice and woodrats). In horses, ...

[19] Ticks require a blood meal to reproduce. Deer ticks become infected with Lyme disease (and other disease-causing agents) when they take their blood meal from infected small rodents, such as white ...

prions and testing ticks and ear samples taken from infected wild white-tailed deer suggests that the parasites can indirectly transmit the disease. For the University of Wisconsin at Madison-led ...

Deer Tick just released a new full band live session of their latest album Emotional Contracts’ epic, 9-minute closing track “The Real Thing.” The live video, featuring John McCauley’s ...

If you remove a tick from yourself or your pet and would like to have it identified, place the tick in a small vial of alcohol inside a crushproof ... and Tick Identification Wallet Cards available: ...