Snowy winters actually help ticks survive. "Tick season will hit fast and hit hard," said the director of East Stroudsburg ...

Doctors say 90% of all diseases transmitted by an insect bite originate with ticks, even when a mosquito does the biting. As ...

Just in time for tick season, new research is shining a light on how animals develop resistance to tick bites, which points toward the possibility of developing more effective vaccines against the ...

The Asian longhorned tick, first discovered in the U.S. in 2017, reproduces rapidly and can carry several diseases. The tick population is highest in the Philadelphia area, where it was first found on ...

Research collaboration by the Texas A&M Department of Entomology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, creates potential for genetic tools to control disease-spreading ticks. Jason Tidwell is ...

Ticks have evolved different techniques to survive winter. They stay deep down in the leaf litter close to the forest floor ...