The exotic East Asian tick that first showed up in New Jersey is clearly on the move, this time showing up in Arkansas.

Remember that mysterious exotic tick that showed up on a New Jersey sheep farm last year? It’s now made it’s way down to Virginia. On May 14, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa confirmed the finding of the Haemaphysalis longicornis tick (otherwise known as the East Asian or Longhorned tick) in Virginia. The […]

No one knows how an exotic East Asian tick arrived on a farm in New Jersey, but it looks like the pest has taken up permanent residence. Following initial identification by the Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University and the Hunterdon County Department of Health, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa […]