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 [...]

Hello my delicious human readers, Now most of you are smart enough that you avoid ticks like me. However, there are some humans, "entomologists" they call themselves, who purposely go out searching for ticks. I am not complaining, they make my job of finding a host easy! So for this week's blog I thought we [...]

Hey everyone, Being related to a bunch of ticks can make party planning hard. Take my relative, the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) for example. I wanted to throw a big, summer BBQ bash and I find out that they can cause "Red Meat Allergy"?!?!?! Image depicts rising IgE levels in a human [...]

Hello everyone!!! I have decided to take a break from blood sucking and career shift into a new adventure. I am excited to be bringing you up-to-date news on tick activity occurring in Illinois. The people here at I-TICK have been wonderful to me (I mean, they haven't drowned me in ethanol yet)... But anywho, [...]