But how do tick experts — people who know where ticks are and how they spread, and employ the latest strategies — handle this growing scourge? After all, ticks are everywhere.

June 16, 2025 – Ready to hit the great outdoors this season? Just make sure you've taken steps to protect yourself from ticks and tickborne illness, which experts say is on the rise.

An invasive tick that is a known spreader of diseases and pathogens is spreading in Pennsylvania.

What Do Baby Ticks Eat? The life cycle of a tick is divided into four stages. There are four stages of development in a tick’s life: egg, larva, nymph, and finally adult.

The Allegheny County Health Department’s vector control specialist, Nick Baldauf, is kicking off mosquito and tick surveillance season by monitoring ticks in Schenley Park and Highland Park.

Tick bites are nearly double already this year. Will this summer be the worst yet? A bite from an infected tick can land people in the hospital — and this summer, researchers are seeing even ...

Why researchers say the Asian longhorned tick is spreading so rapidly — and why it could pose a serious threat to human and animal health.

America has a tick problem. While the overall number of ticks may not be increasing annually, the species of ticks that call particular regions of the nation home have changed. Previously, only ...

Thanks to warming winters and milder temperatures, ticks are thriving in more parts of the country than ever before — bringing the risk of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease.

As the weather warms and more people spend time outside, health professionals are reminding the public that parasites like ticks are active.