Summer has arrived, and with it increased risk of tick exposure. Places to watch out for include wooded areas and patches with tall grass and bushes, explains Dr. Goudarz Molaei, research scientist ...

If you’re spending time outdoors, especially during peak tick season, it’s essential to use the best tick repellent products. “There is nothing good that happens when a tick attaches to the human body ...

Since starting his own lawn care and landscaping company in 2017, Sean Devine has had repeat customers for all four years he has been in business. And one of the services they request annually from ...

Have you ever been mid-hike, when you noticed a few tiny bugs crawling on your shoes...only to realize, OMG they’re ticks? Yeah, it’s the sort of thing that you need to be prepared for, since a tick ...

Your clothes may repel others. When it is people at a party or on a date, that can be bad. When it is ticks (at a party, on a date, or anywhere else), that can be very good. Because ticks suck in many ...

Scientists have found a new way to repel and kill ticks and mosquitos using a natural ingredient found in grapefruit and cedar trees, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

One of the easiest ways to reduce ticks is to maintain your yard and its perimeter. About 82 percent of ticks found on lawns are discovered within nine feet of the lawn’s edge. This is especially true ...

Are you going for a hike? Don’t forget your bottle of ant musk. A new scientific study suggests that some species of ticks—those Lyme Disease-spreading creepy crawlies—are scared off by pheromones ...

Don't ask state entomologist Kirby Stafford if this is going to be a bad year for ticks. "The ticks are always out there," Stafford said. "It's going to be a bad tick year, this year and every year." ...