Of the thousands of ticks collected across Connecticut last year, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station says ...

Many people wonder what deer ticks look like. Female and male deer ticks have similar physical characteristics. Female ticks grow to be around 1/8”, while males are smaller and reach only 1/16”.

The goal of the research is to help scientist learn about ticks and their diseases. This time of year, people will likely ...

The piebald deer spotted frolicking in an Oregon field last month makes average look overrated, donning a coat sprinkled with bits of white. This isn’t your average deer, nor it will ever be due ...

The parasites don’t spread diseases like ticks do; however ... fly species that bother people in the United States, including deer, horse, stable, and black flies. Bites vary by species and ...

A follow-up investigation is in the works. Philip Stewart, an RML scientist, hopes to return to the Richey area to search for deer ticks to see if the species has established itself in the region ...

When Janet Jarnefeld started working as a tick specialist at the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District 28 years ago, deer ticks were all but absent in the southwest metro. “Years ago ...