Female Lone Star ticks have a white dot in the center of their back. Males often have dots or white streaks on the edge of their bodies. Matt Combes, ...

Female and male deer ticks have similar physical characteristics. Female ticks grow to be around 1/8”, while males are smaller and reach only 1/16”.

Female Ticks Have Market On Gluttony Date: April 29, 2007 Source: University of Alberta Summary: Sex makes you fat. If you're a female tick, that is.

Ticks are parasitic bloodsuckers, capable of spreading deadly disease, and they are becoming increasingly common. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Ticks pose a grave risk to public health, with nearly half a million cases of the tick-borne Lyme disease treated every year in the United States. Young nymph and adult female ticks typically pose ...

Ticks are most active in summer, the same time people also flock to the woods and prairies where the creatures live.

After a tick egg hatches, it goes through three life stages: larva, nymph and adult. Both male and female ticks feed on blood by inserting their barbed, straw-like mouthparts into the skin of ...

Research published online this week in PNAS suggests that a peptide cocktail transferred from male ticks to females during copulation not only stimulates the females to gorge on food, but also ...

One woman’s tick problem turned out to be substantially weirder—and grosser—than usual. In a case report published this month, the woman’s doctors describe how a tick stuck in her ear led ...