Lyme disease is the most well-known, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, and is transmitted by black-legged ticks, ...

The goal of the research is to help scientist learn about ticks and their diseases. This time of year, people will likely ...

And with it, comes tick season. “They emerge from the soil and are actually quite ravenous,” Dr. Ben Clarke shared. The immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences is studying deer ticks ...

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

A female deer tick (xodes scapularis), one of the two tick species that spread ehrlichiosis in the U.S. © KPixMining via Shutterstock A person’s precious organ ...