With that growing presence comes a greater risk of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease, which is on the rise in Michigan, ...

The Allegheny County Health Department’s vector control specialist, Nick Baldauf, is kicking off mosquito and tick ...

The most common method of monitoring used by entomologists is the tick drag. According to the entomologists at the pest management program, monitoring methods, including performing a tick drag ...

"Don't let a tick make you sick." That's the message doctors across the country are spreading after discovering that tick ...

"Typically, tick surveillance includes something that's called a tick drag, and it's actually very simple," epidemiologist Kathleen Winter said. "You take a piece of cloth with string attached and ...

As Winter explained, tick surveillance begins with a tick drag, where a piece of cloth is dragged across habitats where ticks are breeding. Last October, KDPH and a handful of partners performed a ...

There are a number of steps you can take to protect yourself from ticks when you are in nature, but there is one you should take: Spray your footwear with the synthetic insecticide permethrin.

Irwin said a tick surveillance was conducted at the school. "We actually take a canvas sheet, one meter by one meter, and we walk down trails, and we drag that canvas sheet behind us — and the ...

Are you worried about your kids and pets being exposed to ticks in your own backyard? There is a way to find out where in ...