Tracking ticks: Tick bites on the rise this summer

In the woods of New York's Westchester County, researchers use a piece of corduroy and a lint brush to measure the density of this summer's ticks. >> Every week, we sample two to three times in our woods to monitor the tick population. >> On a scale of 1 to 10, the form tick index hit 10 three weeks in a row last month.Dr. . Thomas Daniels has studied ticks for 40 years. How is 2025 shaping up.And numbers of ticks that we've seen this year are at least 30% higher than we've seen in previous years. >> That i ...