A bull moose grazes in New Hampshire during the spring. (Photo by Cappi Thompson/Getty Images) Every fall, winter ticks in New England sit on shrubs or other plants waiting for a large animal to pass ...

Grace Moeggenborg, a recent graduate of Michigan Technological University, is researching whether balsam fir oil can kill ...

Winter ticks are killing moose across New England in alarming numbers, latching onto their hosts by the thousands and draining so much blood that the animals have been described as “zombies” before ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The graying look of moose you might see in the field this spring isn't the result of old age. It's likely the work of blood-sucking ticks. The Coeur d'Alene office of the Idaho ...

A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ...

Every fall, winter ticks in New England sit on shrubs or other plants waiting for a large animal to pass by so they can latch on and begin sucking out blood. This has a huge impact on the area’s moose ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Moose calves are dying at unprecedented levels in New England, mostly because of the hordes of winter ticks — as many as 90,000 on one animal — that latch onto their bodies and drain ...

Moose are seriously tough animals with a solid build and impressive survival skills. Put simply, not many animals can take on a moose effectively. But one small critter is the exception. Wyoming’s ...