Many members in the class Bunyaviricetes are tick-borne viruses. Experimental viral infection of ticks is greatly needed to better understand the tick–virus interactions. To date, multiple laboratory techniques for the viral infection of ticks have been documented. Here we describe two methods of infecting Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks with SFTSV: infecting ticks through microinjection and direct feeding on infected animal hosts. Both methods have been shown to be effective in infecting ticks.