A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You probably won’t see a tick as it clings to a blade of grass, but it can see you. The tiny parasites are ...

Experts share advice on how to assess your risk. By Erik Vance I heard about ticks long before I ever saw one. Growing up in California, I knew they existed, but just imagined them elsewhere, like ...

One homeowner narrowly avoided a major landscaping headache after pausing to ask the Reddit landscaping community for their thoughts on a seemingly innocuous plant. In a post on the subreddit ...

Heather Tick, M.D. New World Library (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-60868-206-5 While in medical school, Tick, now a physician who practices integrative medicine, learned how to ...

This year's tick season has been extremely active, leading to a surge in ER visits because of tick bites, particularly in the Northeast. This year's figures are the highest since 2019, according to ...

An invasive species of tick that has been reported in more than 20 states has been spotted in Maine for the first time, according to officials. The Asian longhorned tick was first identified in the ...

Ticks can’t jump. But thanks to the forces of static electricity, sometimes, the arachnids can soar through the air, a new study says.

Because they carry diseases and are incapable of being squished, ticks can be very dangerous. How many are where you live? Terminix, a major pest control company, ranked the most and least ...