Armed with barbed mouthparts and sophisticated spit, ticks (Ixodes scapularis) employ strategies that have served them for millions of years — stealthily hitching onto a host, slicing through its skin ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An international team of scientists led by Purdue University has sequenced the genome of the tick that transmits Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The black-legged tick, or deer tick, _Ixodes scapularis_, can transmit Lyme disease and other health hazards. U.S. Centers for ...

While the prevalence of Lyme disease and other illnesses spread by ticks has steadily increased in the United States over the past 20 years, a new study of the state of American tick surveillance and ...

Nicholas H. Ogden; Laurie St-Onge; Ian K. Barker; Stéphanie Brazeau; Michel Bigras-Poulin; Dominique F. Charron; Charles M. Francis; Audrey Heagy; L. Robbin Lindsay ...

A female “Ixodes scapularis” also called deer tick or blacklegged tick, as seen from above. Did you know that the blood-sucking parasite known as the tick is actually nearly 900 different species? Or ...

Back when I was just getting started in hunting, you’d never find a tick, but over the years I’ve had a number of hunting ...

While many homeowners heed the advice to clear their lawns of fallen leaves in autumn to avoid creating tick-friendly habitat in high-use areas, a new study on tick abundance in leaf litter says ...