Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A closeup of the fawn, and the ticks on its eye. Shawn Luchtel was walking behind his house in west-central Missouri a few seasons ...

The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these ...

The makings of a rough tick season in the Philadelphia area may have been afoot since winter. Experts told The Philadelphia Inquirer that weeks of snow cover might have helped more ticks survive into ...

Jacqueline Borges, a master's student in microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, notices a nymph picked up while flagging for ticks as part of her studies. Booming deer populations ...

Nothing itches worse than a tick bite, and I don't know how deer stand it. Every time I hang a deer for skinning and quartering, ticks of all sizes evacuate the carcass in waves. It's disgusting, and ...