May 12: Make sure to attend the URI East Farm Spring Festival EARLY! Early bird special, permethrin tick repellent for your shoes! Visit our Events section
for more details.
May 14: Tick Town Hall Meeting, FREE!
May 17: More Ticks in More Places Presentation: How the ever-changing ecology of tick-borne diseases in the Northeastern US affects you!
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Tick and health experts say certain environmental factors are setting us up for what could be the worst year for deer ticks and Lyme disease on record.
TickEncounter [TERC] recently sat down with two of Rhode Island's newest TickSmart™ Certified deer tick control experts - Greg Carbone of the Bartlett Tree Experts
and Ames Kaiser of Ocean State Tick Control - to discuss their thoughts on tick-bite prevention for this tick season.
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Article on SunJournal.com by Terry Karkos reveals Winter tick problem in Maine.
"Winter tick 'cluster bombs' in the tens of thousands have ambushed moose this month and last. The arachnids are taking their first blood meal and settling in for the winter."
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Although winter is fast approaching, disease-carrying deer ticks are still active and abundant in southern New England, where a University of Rhode Island researcher has been collecting adult deer ticks at a rate of more than 350 per hour while walking in the woods, along parkland paths, and even on local roadsides in recent weeks.
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Once attached to people or pets, deer ticks are just hard to find! Their numbers are on the rise and they occur in more & more places – even your backyard! Read our “Top 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ticks These Days” and stay disease-free.
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