Each year as the temperature drops and the grass once again turns green, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

See wood tick advice. Tiny deer ticks need to be scraped off. You can remove them with the edge of a credit card. If the wood tick's head (mouth parts) breaks off in the skin, remove any large pieces.

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, ...

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

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 ...