These masses of eggs appear sticky, too. “Tick nests look like masses of small eggs, sometimes resembling brown or red fish ...

Undergraduate student Amber Huot uses tick dragging, a field sampling method for collecting ticks from vegetation. Huot is a student intern with the VectorED Network, a CDC-funded Vector-borne Disease ...

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the United States. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported, with nearly half a million people diagnosed each year. Caused by the bacterium Borrelia ...

Ticks don’t just go away in the winter. Ticks can be active anytime the temperature is above freezing, and research shows that tick-borne diseases are on the rise in people and dogs. According to the ...

Across Western New York, many homeowners have noticed what seems like an explosion in deer ticks — and with it, growing ...