Category: Prevention

Tick Report’s mission is to provide professional tick testing services to individuals and agencies seeking more information about the risk of dangerous tick-borne pathogens.

What can the tick that bit you tell you? What is tick-testing research telling us about their DNA and how can we learn from that data? Does every tick carry disease? (The answer might surprise you)! How long for test results?

You may have seen Bug Bite Thing Suction Tool on Shark Tank! Last year, the company expanded beyond the insect bite relief industry and introduced Bug Bite Thing Tick Remover. A proper tick removal device…finally!

Nature enthusiasts, hikers, hunters, mushroom foragers, and gardeners: Are you doing everything in your power to be tick preventative? This podcast episode of Lyme Time features Brian Anderson, the “Tick Terminator” that everyone needs to hear. As an avid outdoorsman himself, Brian talks specifically about misconceptions surrounding ticks and other vectors known for spreading Lyme disease and co-infections. He is the author of the book “Winning the War on Ticks” and has made it his mission to educate those of us in the community that work or play in the great outdoors.

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Northwoods Tick Control, based in Cumberland Maine and found out some of the best ways to control ticks in the yard. It’s actually not difficult and actually fairly necessary if you have pets that go in and out, live near wooded areas, have leafy or wood piles, or are near wildlife.