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Tick pesticide resistance may extend their northern range as winters warm
UC researchers find that lone star ticks surviving sub-lethal acaricide exposure also tolerate deeper cold, a combination that could let the species push into ranges where vector-borne illness is currently rare.

Desk note: this article leads with the University of Cincinnati team and the PHYS release rather than aggregating the broader tick-resistance literature, on the working assumption that the laboratory demonstration is the news and that the peer-reviewed numbers will follow. Monexus treats range-expansion coverage as a public-health story first and a climate story second, because the policy levers are local and the timeline is short.
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