The problem starts with a bug that should never have been called a deer tick.

But that ever present menace, the deer tick, remains a problem.

She has stopped feeding the birds in her backyard, since they, too, carry the deer tick.

Deer tick females latch onto a host and drink its blood for four to five days.

Part of the confusion is the usage of the name "deer tick."

McCauley found a deer tick on his scalp later that evening, which caught the singer off guard.

In fact, a deer tick, infamous carrier of the Lyme disease spirochete.

Find a deer tick on your body?

In addition to the diseases associated with the deer tick, cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been found.

On the flip side, the cooler weather also favors the common deer tick, which is a primary carrier of Lyme disease.