Ixodes dammini
deer tick

The problem starts with a bug that should never have been called a deer tick.

But that ever present menace, the deer tick, remains a problem.

She has stopped feeding the birds in her backyard, since they, too, carry the deer tick.

Deer tick females latch onto a host and drink its blood for four to five days.

Part of the confusion is the usage of the name "deer tick."

McCauley found a deer tick on his scalp later that evening, which caught the singer off guard.

In fact, a deer tick, infamous carrier of the Lyme disease spirochete.

Find a deer tick on your body?

In addition to the diseases associated with the deer tick, cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been found.

On the flip side, the cooler weather also favors the common deer tick, which is a primary carrier of Lyme disease.

(Later, deer ticks were shown to be the vector of Lyme disease.)

The state money will allow two scientists to work full time studying deer ticks and their relationships with the animals that harbor them, like deer, mice and raccoons.

Numerous studies have shown the abundance and distribution of deer ticks are correlated with deer densities.

For example, the hard ticks that carry Lyme disease, adult deer ticks of the species Ixodes scapularis or Ixodes dammini, look for a host for the winter.

Camp staffs are going through orientation programs that include instructions on identifying deer ticks and nymphs, and recognizing the symptoms of Lyme disease.

The top six repellents protected against deer ticks and mosquitoes for seven hours or more, Consumer Reports says in a news release.

The Landsat research is based on the presumption that deer ticks are most abundant on lawns that have shady trees and high ornamental shrubs and are close to densely wooded areas.

Wild animals perform many valuable services for our state, like harboring deer ticks and giving us an excuse to put eco-friendly license plates on our gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles.

Although deer ticks are much smaller than dog ticks, they are sometimes as large as a small ladybug if they are engorged with human or animal blood.

Which defeated the purpose of which deer ticks were eaten.