When an animal encounters a potential threat in its environment, it must focus completely on the danger to protect itself.

If you've been seeing mice around your home, here's how to know if they are resident house mice or field mice that are just ...

Last week, in the aisle at the Block Island Grocery, friend Kelly Case stood looking at the steaks in the meat case. She has ...

White vinegar is a common household pest deterrent for mice and other critters due to its strong, acidic smell. Simply use ...

Across Western New York, many homeowners have noticed what seems like an explosion in deer ticks — and with it, growing ...

Undergraduate student Amber Huot uses tick dragging, a field sampling method for collecting ticks from vegetation. Huot is a ...

For more than three decades, researchers have been tracking ticks, mice, oak trees and other wildlife in a New York forest to ...

White-footed mice, not white-tailed deer, are closely linked to the number of young blacklegged ticks, the life stage most likely to infect people with Lyme disease.

Two people and a dog were displaced by a house fire in Deer Park that broke out just before midnight on Wednesday, July 29. Crews from Cal Fire/Napa County Fire responded to the blaze in the 1000 ...