Ticks found on deer may spread diseases to people, pets and other animals. Bacteria and viruses that can be spread include Lyme disease, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Human ehrlichiosis ...

Health researchers at the Marshfield Clinic are once again collecting ticks found across Wisconsin, extending a study they began last year. In 2024, the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute started ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is once again asking Wisconsin residents to send in ticks they find while working and recreating outside this year. In 2024, the Research ...

For most people, being surrounded by ticks is the stuff of nightmares, but at the U.S. National Tick Collection, an influx of arachnids is the norm. The collection, which is housed on the Georgia ...

To get to the US National Tick Collection, visitors to the campus of Georgia Southern University must descend into the bowels of the Math/Physics Building, where sunlight is absent and locked doors ...

MAUMEE, Ohio (WTVG) - A new tick collection box has been set up by Toledo Area Sanitary District at Side Cut Metropark. According to the district, if you or your pet pick up a tick anywhere in the ...

Sandflies are pesky little biters and mosquitoes can make the outdoors absolutely miserable, but no blood-sucking parasite in the South is as troublesome or tenacious as a tick. The little mites latch ...

IT IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL DAY OF SPRINGTIME, AND THAT MEANS WE’LL START SEEING MORE BUGS OUT THERE, INCLUDING TICKS. THERE’S A STATEWIDE STUDY GOING ON RIGHT NOW TO SEE HOW MANY TICK SPECIES THERE ARE ...

A trip through tick world The national tick collection is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is the world's largest, by every account. Housed at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro since ...