Sitting atop a blade of grass, biding time till its next blood meal, is a hard tick. It attaches to an exposed leg of an unsuspecting victim, digs into the skin, and starts feeding ... After multiple ...

Prior research has shown that when a tick catches a ride on a passing host, it adheres, then pierces the skin and feeds. In this new study, the research team noted that the sticking mechanism has ...

Tick season is here, and the Champaign County Forest Preserve District is alerting the public to ways they can avoid and ...

Folk methods for removing ticks are usually bunk for one of a few reasons. Either they aim to induce the tick to detach with ...