The American dog tick is also the primary vector of Rocky ... Perhaps more common locally, the blacklegged or deer tick generally seeks out deer, but also feeds on mice and humans.

In fact, adult black-legged ticks stand up to winter weather just fine, and deer tick season never really ends, said Jody L.

According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council’s 2025 forecast, the deer tick is expanding its U.S. range southward and ...

Scientists at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute extends its tick study. They aim to find details about how the ...

Country. Deer ticks are also out and are looking to latch onto any living thing that moves. They can usually be found along ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick, Ixodes scapularis ... Lone star tick, American dog tick (a.k.a. Wood ...

A Montana hunter discovered an unusual-looking tick on her dog and submitted it to a research lab. It was discovered that ...

Lab testing showed 41.5 percent of those deer ticks carried the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. According to the report, ...