The goal of the research is to help scientist learn about ticks and their diseases. This time of year, people will likely ...
On Feb. 28, the lab issued a news release stating scientists had confirmed the tick was Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick (not to be confused with the western ...
But it’s the baby (larval) lone star ticks that ... as some former farms became forested again. It seems the deer brought lone star ticks with them. One of the first words entomologists tend ...
PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.
Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by black-legged ticks, ...