"No one wants a tick bomb on their ankle," says public health entomologist ...

A multi-year Connecticut field study found that low-dose fipronil bait stations reduced larval blacklegged ticks on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — It's a video that will make you feel itchy: dozens of small ticks crawling all over a North ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Ticks pose a grave risk to public health, with nearly half a million cases of the tick-borne Lyme disease treated every year in the United States. Young nymph and adult female ticks typically pose the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio’s peak season for blacklegged ticks is winding down, offering some relief to those who have avoided a bite this year. But the aggressive lone star tick is prolonging the threat ...

A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ...

Officials with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said they received 300 ticks submissions in August, a drop from record highs in the spring and early summer, but caution that this fall ...