The 11 species of ticks common in Texas include the black-legged tick, brown dog tick, Lone Star tick, Gulf Coast tick and American dog tick ...

While the Northeast and upper Midwest have 25,000 new cases of Lyme disease every year, Texas sees less than 80 annually. The Brown Dog Tick, Rhipicephalus sanquineus, prefers dogs but will infest ...

Pull the tick from your skin with your bare hands Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp as close to the head of the tick as possible and pull upward with a steady motion Hold a lit match close to the tick ...

This test allowed researchers to observe that the tropical lineage tick, a variety of “brown dog" tick, was two and a half times more likely to choose the human over the dog when the temperature ...

More than 300 dogs in WA and the NT have tested positive to canine ehrlichiosis, a potentially fatal disease transmitted by ticks. Protect your dog from this new deadly disease outbreak. We still ...