WCSH-TV6 • January 6, 2023
Despite the fact that it's no longer "tick season," all it takes are some mild temperatures for ticks to emerge again. But Griffin Dill, the coordinator of the University of Maine Extension Tick Lab, said it's difficult to try and manage or control the tick population. "There's not really a comprehensive plan we can take to try and reduce the tick population across the entire state because it's so forested and a lot of it is private land, so the state has no jurisdiction over much of that property. It falls on the individual homeowner to try to reduce tick populations in any way they can on their own property," Dill said.