Each year as the temperature drops and the grass once again turns green, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District enters its tick-hunting season. While ticks bite year-round, the deer … ...

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi.This corkscrew-shaped bacteria is spread through the bite of an infected black-legged tick, or deer tick, lxodes scapularis, in the ...

A new paper by UMass doctoral student Patrick Pearson, published in the journal Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, finds that white-tailed deer have properties in their blood that kills Lyme ...

With the warm weather comes deer ticks. They carry not only Lyme disease but also Powassan virus. "Most of the day is spent in front of a microscope identifying mosquitoes and ticks and black ...

Reduced deer populations can lead to a reduction in Lyme disease cases, researchers in Connecticut have found that after a 13-year study was conducted. White-tailed deer serve as the primary host ...

Why? Because it sounds like TikTok? That’s ridiculous! I’m writing about ticks because the subject is so relevant. We’re all worried about ticks and the diseases they carry. My main problem with ...

While ticks bite year-round, the deer tick, also known as the black-legged tick, tends to prefer cooler, wetter conditions but more importantly — it is the tick that can carry Lyme disease.