The goal of the research is to help scientist learn about ticks and their diseases. This time of year, people will likely ...

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.

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 ...

And with it, comes tick season. “They emerge from the soil and are actually quite ravenous,” Dr. Ben Clarke shared. The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks ...

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 ...

Old buddies Drive-By Truckers and Deer Tick are teaming up for the “Charm & Decadence” summer tour. Things kick off May 29 in San Antonio and run through August 9 in Indianapolis. Thelma and ...

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two tick species that spread ehrlichiosis in the U.S. © KPixMining via Shutterstock A person’s precious organ ...