UC Research Shows Ticks are Even Tougher and Nastier than You Thought
(World News Science)

Anyone who has plucked a tick off a pants leg knows they are tough. But UC research is demonstrating just how hardy they are. A UC study published in 2016 by the journal Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases suggests that ticks have little problem surviving a typical Ohio winter. Benoit, Rosendale and their student co-authors examined the cold tolerance of the American dog tick by exposing them to temperatures as cold as...