Deer and dog ticks are both parasites that can spread disease. They differ in size, the specific diseases they can carry, and where they’re found. Share on Pinterest Getty Images Deer ticks and ...

Minnesota's Metropolitan Mosquito Control District said they found their first deer tick of the year ... U.S. The page also includes a size chart for a few ticks that commonly bite humans: the ...

An increasing number of cases of Lyme, caused by a bacteria spread through the bite of deer ticks ... The nymphs, about the size of a poppy seed, are smaller than adult ticks, so they're harder ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) -- Scientists at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute are asking the public to continue to submit ticks for a research study called the Tick Inventory via Citizen Science ...

Young deer ticks, called nymphs, are active in early spring. Only the size of a poppy seed, they are fully capable of transmitting disease. I came down with anaplasmosis from a bite in Vermont in ...

The kinds of ticks that spread Lyme disease are the blacklegged tick (a.k.a. the deer tick) and western blacklegged ... come in once with a tick the size of a poppyseed in his belly button.

Poppy-seed-size blacklegged ticks, which are also known as deer ticks and can transmit Lyme disease, can spread the disease to humans after feeding on infected mice. The first person known to have ...