The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) announced on Friday that the first detection of Asian longhorned ticks was found in Berrien County and confirmed on June 11.

Experts warn that tiny, active nymph ticks increase Lyme disease risk because they can be too small to detect.

Have you seen more ticks than usual lately in Delaware? You're not alone. Here's what's up with the state's tick population ...

It wouldn’t be the beginning of summer if I or a family member didn’t find a tick crawling on our body. It may be our love ...

Temperatures are rising, days are getting longer, and flowers are blooming again. Tick season is officially upon us. There are several tick species throughout the U.S., but two of the most common ...

Put bluntly, ticks suck ... from the tick's size and markings. If you've been bitten by a dog tick (which are very common in our region), you're at less risk than if it was a deer tick, which ...

Even if you don’t grow roses, a deer fence is the only way to keep disease carrying deer ticks out of the garden — but my anti-deer rant and the danger posed from deer ticks had better wait ...

The longhorned tick, originally from eastern Asia, was recently detected during local field studies by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in partnership with the USDA. This marks another ...

Ticks are remarkably small—many are no bigger than a poppy seed, Shamoon-Pour says. Adult deer ticks, for example, are about 1/10th of an inch when they’re not engorged. If you go after one ...

4 “Certainly, the most infamous tick we have in the US is the black-legged tick, or the deer tick,” said Reif of this other major tick species. These ticks are most known for being vectors of Borrelia ...

This area has primarily three types of ticks: the Dog Tick (can cause Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), the Deer Tick or Blacklegged Tick (can cause Lyme disease), and the Lone Star Tick (extremely small ...

Whether you’re walking the dog, working in the garden, or hiking Hopewell Valley’s trails, health officials say one thing should always follow: a thorough tick check. Tick season is underway in New ...