This story originally featured on Outdoor Life. Our love of the outdoors can bring us into contact will all sorts of unpleasant organisms, though few are as widespread as the tick. These vampiric ...

To slow down the rapid spread of tick-borne illnesses, the ideal public health strategy would be to predict where the pests are likely to be concentrated—and immediately getting this information to ...

An invasive tick species, new to the U.S., has already popped up in nine states, and a new study suggests that the species could spread much further. But the new study, published today (Dec. 13) in ...

Got ticks? We sure hope not. Ticks suck blood and can transmit diseases to their hosts. They’re sneaky little critters that go “questing” — that’s the technical term — for cool, shady places to hide ...

“We are creating maps showing the current distribution of these medically important tick species and then also maps of suitable habitat that might be at risk for future invasion from the tick species, ...

Annapolis, MD; December 13, 2018--Since the arrival of the Asian longhorned tick in North America was first reported in New Jersey in early 2018, it has been found in eight other states in the U.S.