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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes the tiniest, out-of-sight pests are the most persistent and frustrating. Ticks certainly fall into that category with their disease-carrying, blood-sucking tendencies that impact both humans ...

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Tick season in Indiana is in full force, and a local expert wants to inform people how to keep safe from ticks and the spread of Lyme disease. “Ticks are very active,” said ...

Most often, you may suspect a different pest, but it’s actually mites, which is why observation is really important,” says ...