Mosquitoes and Ticks
Learn about mosquitoes and ticks and how to protect yourself from illness and disease.
- Massachusetts Arbovirus Update - Current Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile Virus (WNV) information in Massachusetts, including EEE and WNV risk maps.
- Mosquito and Tick Information - Learn what Massachusetts is doing to keep you safe – and ways you can protect yourself and your family – from mosquito and tick bites and the illnesses they can cause. This resource is updated often.
- Monthly Tickborne Disease Reports - Monthly Tick Reports show seasonal trends in reported tick bites and tick-borne disease diagnoses in Massachusetts residents.
- Mosquito-borne Diseases - Learn how to protect yourself from illness.
- Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project
- Preventing Tick Bites and Tickborne Diseases (2:40) - Podcast
- Tick-borne Diseases - Ticks can carry harmful diseases. Learn about tick-borne illnesses and how to avoid tick bites.
- Tick-borne Disease Prevention - Learn about types of ticks and various tick-borne diseases.
Tick identification and testing services - Learn how you can identify tick bites and get them tested for tick-borne disease.
Plymouth County
- Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project
- Spray requests will begin on May 28, 2024. For additional information, please visit PCMCP or call 781-585-5450 from 7:00 am to 2:30 pm.
News and Updates
Fact Sheets
Tick Repellents - Fact sheet about tick repellents
Flyers and Posters
- Don’t Let a Tick Make You Sick! - Printable Tick Bite Prevention Comic for Summer Campers
- Gardening Tips - Don’t let the bugs bite!
- Is there a tick on you? - Do a tick check!
- It’s Open Season on Ticks! - Printable Hunter Safety Fact Sheet
- Don’t Let a Tick Make You Sick! - Printable Tick Bite Prevention Crossword Puzzle and Information Sheet for Kids
- Prevent Tick Bites - Tick Bite Prevention Trail Sign