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

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 ...

Minnesota’s unusual stretch of warm weather in late winter and early spring has led to earlier than normal tick activity and a sudden start to the tick-borne disease season. Health officials ...

Disease-carrying ticks appear to be on the rise in Minnesota, and spreading to parts of the state that didn’t have the bugs as recently as five years ago, state ...

Other animals, like white-tailed deer, are "incompetent hosts ... we found very small changes in the abundance of blacklegged ticks, but think this is likely because we usually don't start ...