Only female deer ticks become engorged. Male ticks feed less and are always busy in search of mates. After mating, a male ...
PORTLAND (WGME) -- Tick experts are warning Mainers to prepare for an increase in tick populations this spring, following a winter that was not consistently cold enough to reduce their numbers.
“The black-legged tick, the adult stage, the adult female and male, if the temperature goes ... host seeking at that point and get a meal on a deer or a dog or on you,” said Dr. Jean Tsao ...
On Feb. 28, the lab issued a news release stating scientists had confirmed the tick was Ixodes scapularis, also known as the deer tick or blacklegged tick (not to be confused with the western ...