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Spending time outdoors brings numerous benefits, but in many areas, including your own backyard, it also brings the risk of tick encounters and the potential for tick-borne illnesses. In our home state of Maine, 2024 saw the highest number of Lyme disease cases ever reported!
My wife Barb and I checked out our granddaughter’s yard after she shared that she was picking up ticks on the mowed back lawn.
May is officially Lyme Disease Awareness Month and a great time to educate yourself about Lyme disease, where the deer ticks are, and how to do proper tick checks on your family and companion animals. Lyme disease, caused by the
