BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 22, 2021
The first day of autumn may spell the official end of summer, but it’s not the end of tick season. In fact, things are starting to ramp up as the summer’s deer tick nymphs are turning into this fall’s adults. Numbers of the Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks will continue to rise, peaking in October. “They could be out well into December,” said Griffin Dill, who runs the University of Maine Tick Laboratory.