Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

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Research is showing there is a connection between the tick populations, the mice populations and the spread of Lyme disease in Maine. All three have been on the rise across the state and there is no ...

Vaccinating Long Island’s legions of white-footed mice against the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could dramatically reduce the tick-transmitted infection in Nassau and Suffolk residents. That isn’t ...

New Jersey’s most common native rodent is the white-footed mouse, or “deer mouse.” Its original habitat was forest and forest edges, but it has adapted to the human presence and is now also common in ...

As Lyme disease increases, researchers have taken a significant step toward finding new ways to prevent its transmission. The experts, who include a pioneer in Lyme disease discovery, have sequenced ...

DURING WINTER, I often hear gnawing and the scurrying of little feet inside the walls of our house. Mice have taken shelter in our old farmhouse again. Although I hate killing the cute creatures, ...

The following is a story, but it describes a real scientific process: the relationship between acorns, mice, ticks and a bacterium. On a chilly November night, in a deciduous forest in the eastern U.S ...