The UMaine Tick Lab recently confirmed the first detection of Asian longhorned tick in Maine. umaine.edu/news/blog/20...

The UMaine Tick Lab's 2024 annual report detailing the information gathered through our passive tick surveillance program is now available at ticks.umaine.edu. Check it out!

While looking for ticks at one of our long-term monitoring sites in northern Maine, one of our students encountered clusters of winter tick larvae. Winter ticks pose a serious threat to Maine's iconic moose population, with infestations reaching over 100,000 ticks on a single moose in some cases.

We took a look at the differences in tick infestation and pathogen prevalence between the white-footed mouse and deer mouse in Maine. We also developed a novel multiplex assay for distinguishing between these two species while testing for tick-borne pathogens. academic.oup.com/jme/article/...