Ticks and Lyme disease may be on the increase for an assortment of reasons, experts said, including milder winters.

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It’s a drag: In a photo from 2013, Joanna Weeks ’13 drags a cloth to collect ticks working with W&M biologists Matthias Leu (left) and Oliver Kerscher. The three were among the co-authors on a 2019 ...

A deer tick bite resembles a bullseye shape. Photon Illustration/Stocktrek Images/ Getty Images If the initial bite grows bigger than 5 cm in diameter over the course of five to eight days, it may ...

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Longitudinal maps of tick movements attracted to Ethanol but repelled by DEET and the donkey skin secretion, (E)-2-octenal. Credit: UMass Amherst ...

That something to feed on is usually a whitetail deer, although Leu says rabbits and raccoons are possible tick targets. But deer, Leu said, are, in ecological terms, “competent hosts,” serving not ...