You may remember that I told you last spring about using a product called Damminix to help to control deer ticks in your yard. The deer ticks carry Lyme disease. The product is packed in tubes that ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Ticks are a nuisance across many areas of the U.S., capable of spreading harmful pathogens to both animals and humans. A new study led by researchers at Penn State analyzed the ...

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In the fight to prevent the spread of Lyme disease, you have a few options to keep that ticks away. You can wear long pants and tuck them into your boots. You can check yourself thoroughly after you ...

The last thing you want to do is make your yard a welcome home for ticks. “Reducing ticks’ habitat around your home is important to minimizing exposure to the pests and diseases,” says Griffin Dill, ...

Use this Tick Identification Guide to ID the tick that’s native to your area, and discover the diseases that it commonly carries. About 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year, ...

As temperatures rise and climate patterns shift, the tick season starts earlier, lasts longer, and reaches places it hasn't before, including right in your backyard. But the good news is that you can ...

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It’s that time of year when the lush green of the outdoors calls to us to commune with nature for the short window of time we call summer. It might be my favorite season in Vermont, but it comes at a ...

Summer is peak season for ticks. Besides unpleasant bites and the uncomfortable process of removing a tick, some tick species carry Lyme disease, which can cause health hazards beyond the trademark ...

We also intend to place tick tubes around the park. Tick tubes basically look like toilet paper rolls that have cotton balls put in them that are impregnated with permethrin, which is an acaricide.