On New York's Fire Island, scientists fenced deer out of two sites; over 4 years, young lone star ticks were reduced by 48.4%, but adult ticks were not controlled

Discover how fencing deer on Fire Island reduced young lone star ticks by 48.4% but failed to control adult ticks. Learn ...
Times News

New app provides daily tick stats

From Albrightsville to Zehners and everywhere in between, folks are able to check on the risk of ticks in their hometowns. TickZone, a free online tool that reports daily tick activity, was launched ...
AgriNews

Extension Notebook: Asian longhorned tick infestation was just a matter of time

In August a farmer noticed his cattle were lethargic with large numbers of ticks, particularly under the tailhead and udder, ...

Tick Disease Nightmare: If You Became Allergic to Venison Would You Still Go Hunting?

This story was originally published in September 2019, before Alpha-Gal disease was as widespread as it is today. Since then, ...
Newswise

Developing a New Vaccine and Therapies to Fight Lyme Disease

Tufts-led team pursues promising new approach to preventing and fighting the bacterium that causes the tick-borne illness ...

Virus that sickens cows, kills deer still rare in New York state—for now

An insect-driven disease that causes high mortality in white-tailed deer and mimics the symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle is still rare in New York state, but the warming climate may ...
newsfromthestates

CT tick populations are growing. Here’s what to know.

Ticks were once most active between March and October, but due to a consistent increase in warm weather spurred by climate change, varying tick species are now active year round in Connecticut. The ...
The Connecticut Mirror

CT tick populations are growing. Here’s what to know.

Jamie L. Cantoni, agricultural research technician and field technician for the active tick surveillance program, holds a tube filled with freshly caught ticks to be tested in Old Lyme, Connecticut on ...
earth

The animal that predicts tick season isn’t the one you’d expect

Tick season can be predicted by white-footed mice and even acorn crops, while 35 years of data found deer numbers had little connection to ticks. Thinning a deer herd is supposed to thin the ticks ...
provincetownindependent

Mice Matter More in Lyme Disease Spread

BARNSTABLE — A 35-year study in a New York forest includes some counterintuitive findings for Cape Codders who think they know how Lyme disease — the most commonly reported tick-borne disease — ...
Timesonline

Heading into the woods this fall? PA’s tick risks are changing

In Pennsylvania, a tick bite may bring more than one disease – and doctors may never know it. And fall is also a busy season for adult ticks. Anaplasmosis is the state’s second-most common tick-borne ...
Medical Daily

Thirty-Five Years of Forest Data Suggest Acorn Crops Predict Lyme Risk Better Than Deer Counts Do

In 1948, researchers stressed a nursing mother with ice water, toe pulling, and math problems with shocks. Each time, her baby got less milk. The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow in the Upper ...