The CDC has previously singled out Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Suffolk County, New York, as places where the lone star tick is known to reside. Deer ticks, also known as black-legged ticks ...

Deer tick – black legs with a black scutum American dog ... By looking at the parasite body and leg colors, you can quickly ...

The best plan for thwarting ticks is to adopt the “dork look” by tucking your shirt into your pants and pulling your socks up ...

This time, she was able to collect the tick for testing, identified as Ixodes pacificus, or the western black-legged tick. Two years later, she got another bite from an I. pacificus tick and once ...