“Ticks don’t take a winter vacation, and as long as temperatures stay above freezing, they remain active and looking for ...

Research collaboration by the Texas A&M Department of Entomology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, creates ...

“If conditions become more hospitable for tropical tick species to establish themselves in areas where they would previously have been unsuccessful, then there is a chance they could bring new d ...

Although 18 different species of tick were identified—including several neotropical species not established in the US—just four species accounted for 81% of the ticks identified by the scientists.

For years, researchers have noticed that these ticks, also called deer ticks, are more abundant on certain invasive plant species, like Japanese barberry, that create dense thickets in the forest ...