While ticks bite year-round, the deer tick ... “The nymphs are more active during the early spring and summer and have the bigger risk of transmitting Lyme disease. And they’re tiny so ...

Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by ... Once infected, the tick can transmit the disease to its next host. Deer ticks are extremely small, with tick nymphs being about the size of the ...

Research is underway at Mount Allison University to try to assess how well preventive Lyme disease ... for accessible tick-testing in New Brunswick Don't throw away that deer tick.

Soon, we will no longer be seeing wood ticks (also called American dog ticks). It wasn’t that long ago when you couldn’t go outdoors, especially around grassy, weedy areas without attracting a horde ...

Why are tick-borne illnesses on the rise across the U.S. and beyond, and what can we do to control tick outbreaks?

Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease, remains the most prevalent ... or allowed to molt into nymphs, depending on experimental needs. 1. Following anesthetization of the mice, to introduce the tick ...

What Is the Most Common Way to Get Lyme Disease? The most common way to get Lyme disease is through the bite of the black-legged tick (also called the deer tick) or the western black-legged tick.

"Even just on the side of the road, there's plenty of habitat for ticks to thrive." Some ticks can transmit illnesses to humans, including Lyme disease ... whether it's a nymph or full-grown ...

It’s long been known that ticks, particularly black-legged or deer ticks, carry Lyme Disease. They pick it up in their pupa or larval stages and pass it on to their sources of food like deer. It is ...