Philip Stewart, an RML scientist, hopes to return to the Richey area to search for deer ticks to see if the species has established itself in the region, Bloom said. Devon Cozart, a communicable ...

Bird species like the oxpecker land on deer, eat the ticks from their fur, and provide their hosts a welcome sense of relief. This is a symbiotic relationship of mutual benefit .

A person’s precious organ donation came with an unexpected visitor. In a new paper out this month, scientists have documented ...

These parasites thrive in warm, moist areas of the body.While most tick bites are harmless, some ticks carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans through their bites, leading to various symptoms ...

While most use winter as a chance for hibernation, around eight dozen people swarmed to the Brown County Music Center for the ...

Deer ticks are extremely small, with tick nymphs being about the ... Detecting Lyme Disease can be difficult to identify in the early stages as the early symptoms—fever, headache, stiffness, lethargy, ...

Just when a deer is losing a considerable amount of blood from unwanted ticks, certain birds step in and save the day. Bird species like the oxpecker land on deer, eat the ticks from their fur, and ...

The five-year funding will support research into how disease-causing bacteria adapt to bypass their host’s immune system.

Ticks merely transmit such infectious diseases as Lyme and AGS, which require a host animal species which they can survive long-term. “It’s not mice or deer,” Vazquez-Prokopec continues.

At a USDA facility in Kerrville, "pioneering" science has largely ended the threat of the New World screwworm fly.