Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

Adult American dog (wood) ticks (bottom row) and blacklegged (deer) ticks (top row). Photos reproduced with the permission of Robbin Lindsay, Public Health Agency of Canada. Adult female blacklegged ...

No matter where you go in the world, it’s quite difficult to avoid ticks. They inhabit all seven continents and all fifty states in the U.S. There are over ten species of ticks in Vermont alone. Here, ...

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

The idea to expand rifle hunting permits to include female and antlerless deer is one of several proposed changes that will ...

In turn, larval and nymphal Ixodes scapularis, or deer ticks, feed on infected mice and then become vectors for the bacteria as well. As adults, female deer ticks – the ones that are disease ...

Western black-legged ticks are very similar to eastern black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks. Only female black-legged ticks bite humans; they are the only ticks in Utah that carry Lyme disease ...

With spring right around the corner, ticks are beginning to pop up more frequently as we welcome the warm weather.

most commonly known as the deer tick, has a brown body with dark legs. Lone Star Ticks are named for the single white spot on the backs of adult females.” Geography also has proven useful in ...

A hunter takes aim with a rifle during Vermont’s regular November deer season. Under the proposed new regulations, hunters who procure an antlerless permit would be allowed to harvest antlerless deer ...