We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ticks can be a big headache for anyone spending time outside — even if it's in your own backyard. Given that ticks spread several dangerous ...

While ticks may be a nuisance, they pose a genuine threat to the health of you and your family, as they carry and transmit a variety of pathogens, including those responsible for Lyme disease and ...

These invasive ticks so heavily infested an Ohio farm in 2021 that three cows died from blood loss. Since 2017, the Asian longhorned tick has been found in 23 states, helped along by the fact that ...

Will it get cold enough to kill ticks and why do we have more of them in Pennsylvania? Those are two common questions a Penn State professor has received in recent years. Michael Skvarla, assistant ...

Everyone knows that ticks are most prevalent in the summer, but did you know that ticks can still be on the hunt for a host in the winter? While ticks become much less active when the days get shorter ...

Adult blacklegged ticks can be active throughout the winter whenever temperatures are above freezing and there is no snow cover. The rebound of forests and deer populations in Pennsylvania has created ...