Spring has officially arrived in the Wood River Valley. Bulbs are pushing through the soil, tree buds are beginning to open, and the natural world is slowly waking up again.

Emergency room visits for tick bites are climbing to levels not seen since 2017. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself this season.

Life cycle of the blacklegged tick. Ticks take a blood meal at each life stage: larva, nymph, and adult. Ticks acquire pathogens by taking blood meals from infected animals (often rodents). The study ...

The primary risk in Colorado comes from two closely related species: the American dog tick and the Rocky Mountain wood tick, ...

Above: Purdue tick researcher Chhoki Sherpa views Asian longhorned tick while working in Cate Hill lab in Whistler Hall. The more we learn about ticks, the more committed we all should be about ...

Tick season is shaping up to be exceptionally "bad" this year. What that means and what you can do about it.

Unlike dog and deer ticks, which take blood meals from multiple hosts at different life stages, winter ticks spend their entire life cycle on a single animal.