If you’re thinking of taking a hike or having a picnic in a field this week, you may want to consider going to a movie ...

Tick larvae and nymphs are more likely to feed on smaller animals, while adults often seek out larger hosts, including humans, Merchant says. ... Unlike a deer tick bite, ...

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live.

Green said black-legged ticks (also known as deer ticks) like to "feed where they land." Sometimes that can be hard-to-see places such as the back of a person's knee. And if it's a nymph, it's ...

Tick season is currently at its peak, and with warm summer weather underway, experts are urging people to take extra ...

Leona Maguire told Golfweek she is still dealing with tick bites she received during the U.S. Women's open in Wisconsin last ...

A deadly virus, transmitted through tick bites, killed one and hospitalized two others as of June, Wisconsin health officials ...

A tick’s life cycle has four stages: egg, larva, nymph, and adult. The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) reported that the nymph and adult stages can transmit human pathogens. Lyme disease is ...

Nymphs can be a lot smaller, he explained, and quite often those tick bites can go unnoticed. “Those often are really the concern for disease transmission, because they are harder for persons to ...

By Sean Lawrence West Virginia University When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, ...

Deer ticks commonly populate wooded areas, grassy fields and dense shrubbery, all of which are abundant in suburban yards, public parks, hiking trails and recreational spaces across the region.

As a juvenile, or nymph, these ticks feed on small forest animals such as mice, hares and voles, but as an adult they prefer domesticated livestock. For centuries, this tick was an occasional ...