Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

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Adult blacklegged ticks can be active throughout the winter whenever temperatures are above freezing and there is no snow cover. The rebound of forests and deer populations in Pennsylvania has created ...

Most people believe ticks are only a problem in the spring and summer, when other insects arrive on the South Carolina scene to pester residents. However, just because you can't see something doesn't ...

Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean ticks are no longer a problem. The creature recently named pest of the year by the National Pest Management Association is still skittering around South Carolina, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Do you think that if you don’t go in the woods, you can avoid ticks? Think again. Ticks have now been found in parks, lawns, and they even climb buildings. Ticks are active as long as ...

Ohio is one of 23 states that houses Asian longhorn ticks, with the latest siting in Butler County near Cincinnati. Asian longhorn ticks were first detected in the U.S. in New Jersey in 2017. They don ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A tick latches onto University of Dubuque biology student Paige Manning. It’s not an uncommon experience for Manning. As a senior, she estimates more than 500 hours of her ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CONDON — Biologist Grant Hokit came to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon, to look ...

You spent some time outside, and then discovered a bug on your leg. What is it? And should you be concerned? It's estimated that more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease develop in the United ...

"We're sort of on the edge of an invasion," Northwest Mosquito Abatement District Medical Entomologist Patrick Irwin said. Irwin said of the nearly 250 square miles that he covers, almost half of the ...

(NEXSTAR) — An invasive tick that can prove fatal for cattle has spread to a new state, officials have confirmed. The Asian longhorned tick, which was first detected in the U.S. in 2017, was found in ...