Ticks are a fact of outdoor life throughout the United States. These blood-feeding arachnids (joint-legged invertebrate animals) become active every year after the first frost. While every creature ...

Tick season is officially here – but in Delaware it never really leaves, according to the state’s leading tick-expert. Efforts are in place to monitor tick populations in public lands with the help of ...

As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. By Maggie Astor Lately, Shannon LaDeau and her colleagues have had unwelcome visitors at their ...

Tick season is officially here – but in Delaware it never really leaves, according to the state’s leading tick-expert. Efforts are in place to monitor tick populations in public lands with the help of ...

Once found mainly in New England and pockets of the Midwest, disease-spreading ticks are now appearing in more places across the U.S. Emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest levels ...