Every morning, Godar's Malai opens dozens of envelopes containing ticks mailed by bite victims. Malai is an entomologist on the lookout for Longhorn ticks, an invasive species that unlike other ticks, can reproduce itself through cloning. The tick is present in at least 21 states and is rapidly spreading across the eastern US.>> Here is a female longhorn tick. As you can see, the body is reddish brown. >> Scientists demolize lab at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have identified an emerging ...

Welcome back. Tick bite cases are approaching record highs this summer as emergency rooms have reported the largest number of tick related visits in nearly a decade. Residents of the tri-state area face the most severe danger of bites according to forom university tick index which is a rating system that estimates bite risk.This week it's at a nine out of 10. Yikes. Joining us now, director of the University of Rhode Island's tick and counter resource center, Professor Thomas Mather and director and associa ...