The eggs incubate and hatch into larvae in late summer. Larvae attach to small rodents to feed. An engorged deer tick larva ...
Deer ticks tend to prefer a specific elevation ... The tube on the left contains tick larvae. (Amanda Bradford/Contributed) ...
Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick-- also called a deer tick -- is a risk during ... after they hatch into larvae in the midsummer of their first year; as nymphs ...
Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during ... after they hatch into larvae in the midsummer of their first year; as nymphs ...