A UMass Amherst center has found and studied two ticks in Maine that can possibly infect people with rare, possibly fatal, ...

Tiny black bugs that look like poppy seeds could describe a host of household pests, from fleas to ticks to carpet beetles. Learning how to identify the most common potential pests and what ...

Basically, you should be on guard,‘’ said Joellen Lampman, of the New York State Integrated Pest Management program.

a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis). Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s ...

soft ticks don't have a hard shell and look like tiny beans with legs underneath the body. Ticks often look black, but their ...

They’ve all been wood ticks. This one just looked a little different,” said Mel. What the Koturs didn’t know at the time was ...

In fact, adult black-legged ticks stand up to winter weather just fine, and deer tick season never really ends, said Jody L.