The scutum on male American dog ticks covers most of the dorsal surface bearing the same white markings. An engorged female ...

Some species of female ticks secrete a neurotoxin in their saliva that can cause paralysis. It’s mostly an issue with American dog ticks and deer ticks, but other species can transmit the ...

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme ...

Infected female ticks also don’t spread the disease ... Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). Deer ticks, however, are much smaller ...