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Maine sets new record in reports of tick-borne disease in 2025

by Elizabeth Walztoni December 29, 2025December 29, 2025

Known cases of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis all exceeded report numbers from 2024, which broke records from the year before.

Outdoors Contributors

This is one solution for MDI’s deer problem

by V. Paul Reynolds, Outdoors in Maine December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

Opinion Contributor

Want to know if a tick carries diseases? The UMaine tick lab can help.

by Opinion Contributor October 22, 2025October 21, 2025

How Islesboro and other Maine islands could combat ticks

by Susan Bard October 10, 2025October 10, 2025

What life is like on a Maine island battered by tick-borne diseases

by Elizabeth Walztoni October 8, 2025October 13, 2025

An invasive tick has been found in Maine for the 1st time

by Christopher Burns August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

The midcoast is Maine’s new tick ‘epicenter’

by Allie Faber, Midcoast Villager July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

Pests

Here’s another reason to hate ticks

by Julia Bayly July 1, 2025June 30, 2025

Three ticks are lined up next to each other.

Pests

The 5 disease-carrying ticks you can find in Maine

by Julia Bayly June 26, 2025June 25, 2025

Tick expert offers advice for increasingly popular ‘No Mow May’

by Elizabeth Walztoni May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

Researchers discover new bacteria in rabbit ticks in Maine

by Patty Wight, Maine Public April 29, 2025April 29, 2025

Pests

What a colder winter means for Maine ticks

by Elizabeth Walztoni February 24, 2025February 25, 2025

Invasive plants may be helping ticks spread across Maine

by Elizabeth Walztoni January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Maine broke its tick-borne disease record in 2024

by Elizabeth Walztoni January 2, 2025January 3, 2025

Maine could end a controversial experimental moose hunt

by Julie Harris December 9, 2024December 19, 2024

Pests

Illness is on the rise as ticks become more active in fall

by Elizabeth Walztoni October 30, 2024October 30, 2024

Pests

Maine ticks are about to get more active

by Elizabeth Walztoni October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Scientists monitor insect-borne infections through moose and deer

by Julie Harris September 30, 2024September 30, 2024

First Lyme disease vaccine in 20 years tested at midcoast hospital

by Jules Walkup July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

Pests

Turns out, opossums may not actually like eating ticks

by Julia Bayly June 25, 2024June 25, 2024