Unfortunately, the insect that you want to avoid the most is one that is probably all too common in your outdoor areas. Ticks, including the wood tick and deer tick, are notorious pests that latch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Will it get cold enough to kill ticks and why do we have more of them in Pennsylvania? Those are two common questions a Penn State ...

Ticks have evolved different techniques to survive winter. They stay deep down in the leaf litter close to the forest floor ...

Cooler days are coming but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the figurative woods when it comes to ticks, whose bites can cause serious illnesses. We’re not under siege but health officials and others ...

Deer ticks are infamous for transmitting Lyme disease and can infect people with other pathogens. Knowing a new species like the deer tick has arrived in Montana or other states is important for ...

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The life span of a deer tick is about two years and they develop through three stages: larva, nymph and adult. Their bite is painless and often is unnoticed, but they can carry Lyme disease. Photo ...

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Biologist Grant Hokit came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Montana, to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walked the ...

Biologist Grant Hokit, PhD, came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Montana, to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walked ...