Spotting a tick on your body can be borderline terrifying. After all, not only can the insect suck your blood, it can also carry a range of potentially serious diseases like Lyme disease and ...

Need to know how remove a tick right now? No problem. I’ve got you. Having spent a lifetime outdoors and the last 25 years at an Upstate New York home whose yard is absolutely crawling with the ...

LIMINGTON, Maine — It's Tick Week at NEWS CENTER Maine, and our goal is to give you all the latest data and science to better protect you, your kids, and your pets against tickborne illnesses. Our ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Spring is in full swing, as are all the ballgames and outdoor activities that go along with it. And as families are standing in that tall grass on the soccer sidelines and ...

Jim Fry, who for years wrote a popular weekly nature column for The Dispatch, never had a story to tell quite like the one he tells now. “I was terrified,” Fry, 79, said a few days ago. Walking ...

Alexis Christine lives in Boston but has a second home in Kansas As the outdoorsy type, the 34-year-old is used to finding ticks on her body after spending time in nature Recently, however, she woke ...

Tick season is here, and if your pet spends any time in the grass or woods, you're likely to spot the blood-sucking creatures on your pet or yourself. There are several tick-borne diseases, including ...

Alexis Christine showing off the seed tick. Alexis Christine was spending time at her second home in Kansas when an ordinary day took an unexpected turn. The 34-year-old tells PEOPLE she and her ...