Mites and ticks are as diverse as they are mysterious. They may look like insects, but they actually belong to the broader ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

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Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean ticks are no longer a problem. The creature recently named pest of the year by the National Pest Management Association is still skittering around South Carolina, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KCTV) - An exotic, invasive tick species has now been documented in Kansas. On Thursday, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) ...

The CDC estimates that around 476,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease each year. This potentially serious disease is spread through the bite of an infected deer tick, ...

Biologist Grant Hokit came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Mont., to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walked the path, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, together with international colleagues, have identified a protein that is crucial for the TBE virus to infect human cells. The discovery, published in the journal ...

(NEXSTAR) — An invasive tick that can prove fatal for cattle has spread to a new state, officials have confirmed. The Asian longhorned tick, which was first detected in the U.S. in 2017, was found in ...

An Asian longhorned tick was confirmed in Maine for the first time, officials said, marking the species' most northeasterly U.S. detection. The finding—a single, not fully grown specimen submitted to ...