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 ...

Telo Onyango, Jocelyn Nieze, and Myles Radersma were walking along a path in Grand Mere State Park in Stevensville, Michigan.

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 ...

experts use a method called a tick drag. It's a simple but effective tool that involves pulling a white cloth across grassy or wooded areas to collect and test ticks. “It’s an effective way to ...