You know what would be super useful information to know? How to ID ticks of course! Imagine it, you are out and about... and BAM! There is a tick crawling on your shirt. Naturally you would want to know what type of tick it is right? Knowing the types of ticks out there can help [...]

Hey everyone, Welcome back to the weekly Tattle the Tick blog. Today we will discussing what happens when a fellow tick bites you and how to properly remove it. The I-TICK program provides a 'tick kit' for all of our participants. In each kit, there is a data sheet, 5 vials filled with ethanol, [...]

Instead of soft bellies, we get scutums! Instead of nights, we get days! It's a hard-shelled life for us! Hey everyone, Tattle the Tick here, ready to drop some knowledge on you guys. Today I'm going to tell you about the other family of ticks: Argasidae, otherwise known as the soft-shelled ticks. Soft-shelled ticks are [...]

Good morning readers, Boy do I have a story for you. This past May, I went down to Tennessee to visit some friends and I had the opportunity to meet the infamous Asian longhorned tick. I got the chance to meet a couple hundred of them while I was looking for a meal. They like [...]