BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 8, 2022
There is no hiding from Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks these days. But your best chance at avoiding them may be to head north on U.S. Route 1 and don’t stop until you reach the Canadian border in Fort Kent. But it may only be a matter of time before deer ticks increase in the north. “As temperatures warm, [deer tick] hosts like small mammals will be able to survive farther north and that can help the ticks in their northward march,” said Griffin Dill, manager of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab.