Suppose you sit down on the ground for a picnic in a lone star tick area, Old Dominion’s Gaff says. Lone star ticks, sensing the carbon dioxide you’re emitting, will crawl across the ground to ...
"By climbing up along pieces of vegetation, shrubbery, and overgrown grass, ticks can place themselves elevated from the ground at 'host level.' From there, ticks use their frontmost legs to reach ...
Other insects, including ticks that carry several diseases, can survive cold spells better. They hibernate in burrows beneath leaves on the ground or other composting material or in the barks of ...