Ticks are a fact of outdoor life throughout the United States. These blood-feeding arachnids (joint-legged invertebrate animals) become active every year after the first frost. While every creature ...

Sometimes the tiniest, out-of-sight pests are the most persistent and frustrating. Ticks certainly fall into that category with their disease-carrying, blood-sucking tendencies that impact both humans ...

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University of Rhode Island professor Thomas Mather said that tick sightings have increased in the last two weeks. Mather said it’s currently too early yet to tell how bad tick season will be. But he ...