Ticks are migrating, raising disease risks if they can’t be tracked quickly enough As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active ...

Ticks are spreading outside their comfort zone – and into ours, according to experts. As cooler regions experience milder winters, those areas are becoming more hospitable to many tick species, Ben ...

Spring is almost here and the warmer temperatures means the return of wood ticks. March is National Tick Awareness Month, and ...

Ticks, as is now well known, can transmit dangerous diseases–to both humans and animals. People are especially afraid of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection, and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). This ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- There are about 30 different species of ticks in Colorado, with tick activity peaking in spring and early summer, according to UCHealth. “Ticks can carry multiple ...

Biologist Grant Hokit, PhD, came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Montana, to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walked ...

Biologist Grant Hokit came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, Montana, to look for ticks. A hiking path crossed the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walked the ...