BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.

Montana has long been home to the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks, however, are much smaller and the disease they ...

These include the common American dog tick, predominantly found on the Pacific Coast and east of the Rockies, and the black-legged deer tick found throughout the eastern, north-central ...

Given the long, cold winters in Utah, you might think there are no ticks in the state. However, ticks let very little get in their way, cold winters included. In fact, ticks can survive up to two ...

Interestingly, neither groundhog ticks nor any other species of tick feed on possums. This is because possums are incredibly clean animals and eat the ticks before they have a chance to embed ...

“The Brown Dog Tick is reddish brown in color, smaller but more elongated. The American Dog Tick is brown with white markings,” Kneese said. “The Black-Legged Tick, most commonly known as ...

Maine is home to 14 different tick species, with the deer tick and the American dog tick being the most common. Also read: Maine broke its tick-borne disease record in 2024 Deer ticks, which can ...

With spring right around the corner, ticks are beginning to pop up more frequently as we welcome the warm weather.

Adult blacklegged ticks are smaller than the more common American dog tick (often called wood tick). American dog ticks have white markings on their backs while blacklegged ticks do not (Figure 2).