“The tick that you don’t find is the most dangerous tick,” according to Angela Tucker, a medical entomology education specialist at the University of Tennessee. It sounds simple, but according to the experts who study these tiny arachnids for a living, simple strategies can go a long way toward preventing them and avoiding bites.
Ticks are more than just a nuisance; they transmit diseases with serious consequences, and cases of tick-borne illness have more than doubled in the United States over the past two decades, with the season growing longer every year. Thankfully, there are multiple ways we can avoid being bitten.
