In a residential backyard in Maine, Project ITCH researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst stumbled upon a ...

The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

UMass Amherst researchers have discovered a new bacteria in Maine rabbit ticks linked to an infection that can be deadly for ...

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Expect a usual amount of ticks and mosquitos this summer. In Wisconsin, that's a lot. Here are 5 strategies to keep them and ...

University of Rhode Island professor Thomas Mather said that tick sightings have increased in the last two weeks. Mather said it’s currently too early yet to tell how bad tick season will be.

“I was petting her and just felt something on there. At first, I thought maybe it was hounds’ tongue or some kind of weed ...

Sometimes, Liesch said, places that near each other can vary in tick concentrations dramatically, because of different habitat conditions. Maybe one place has more water where mosquitos hatch or ...