If you feel the impulse to shake out your jeans and thoroughly inspect your skin when you re-enter your ... going to encounter the Rocky Mountain wood tick. That’s because this particular ...

I snooped around in the woods last week, hoping to find a morel mushroom poking its yummy little nose up out of the leaf litter. The sun was shining. The air was crisp, and I happily ducked and ...

Powassan encephalitis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, two serious tick-borne diseases, have been identified in Minnesota residents, state health officials said today. More commonly occurring ...

Ticks are a valid threat in every household ... Nootkatone is a chemical compound occurring naturally in the skin of grapefruits and the wood of Alaskan cedar trees. It smells and tastes like ...

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by ...