Cattle producers “know that they and their pets can get tick bites, but often they forget that their livestock may be equally or more vulnerable to ticks,” says Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Ph.D. assistant professor of medical and veterinary entomology at the University of Tennessee. Trout Fryxell and graduate student David Theuret recently conducted a study that found ticks on about one in six cattle in Tennessee. (Photo credit: Rebecca Trout Fryxell, Ph.D.)