Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease — the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated ...

Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not ...

The most common ticks you may encounter are the deer tick, the dog tick (American or brown), or the lone star tick. Ticks are ...

While most use winter as a chance for hibernation, around eight dozen people swarmed to the Brown County Music Center for the “Understanding Tick-borne Illness” conference Feb. 19 hosted by the Brown ...

Ticks are external parasites that live on the outside of their host. They survive by first biting and then feeding on blood.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

By the Minnesota DNR Minnesota DNR hosts webinars on ticks, bluebird recovery The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

Montana has long been home to the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks, however, are much smaller and the disease they ...