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 ...

Most people believe ticks are only a problem in the spring and summer, when other insects arrive on the South Carolina scene to pester residents. However, just because you can't see something doesn't ...

Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean ticks are no longer a problem. The creature recently named pest of the year by the National Pest Management Association is still skittering around South Carolina, ...

In Tanzania, we watched on many occasions when small flocks of red-billed birds descended upon the backs of giraffes, cape buffalo, elephants and hippopotamuses, prancing around like they owned them.

This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center through a collaboration between NPR’s Radio IQ and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Southwest Virginia is a hotspot ...

Now that the weather is less oppressive, Floridians will be spending more time outdoors. That can mean more exposure to ticks and tick-borne diseases. But a lot depends on where you live and what kind ...

Oxpeckers are confined to the sub‐Saharan African region and are vital for ungulates’ health and the environment given their status as the world’s only obligate mammal gleaners. In this study, we ...

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Ohio is one of 23 states that houses Asian longhorn ticks, with the latest siting in Butler County near Cincinnati. Asian longhorn ticks were first detected in the U.S. in New Jersey in 2017. They don ...

Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick, has been documented in 24 Ohio counties. The USDA has confirmed a tick removed from a dog in Butler County is of the invasive Asian longhorned ...

MARSHFIELD − Ticks are still active in Wisconsin, and researchers are asking residents to help track them. The Marshfield Clinic Research Institute's Tick Inventory via Citizen Science (TICS) has ...