WGME-TV13 • May 3, 2025
Some Mainers might be participating in “No Mow Way.” It can help pollinators like birds, bugs, butterflies and bees. But can it cause consequences with ticks in your yard? “Taking the month of May off from mowing our lawn, allowing some of the flowering plants to grow and bloom and provide that source of necessary food for those pollinators,” said University of Maine Tick Surveillance Program Coordinator Griffin Dill. He says it’s the edge of the yard where your lawn meets the forest that you’re most likely to see ticks. “Letting that grass grow for a month isn’t going to suddenly create a tick problem. If there are ticks around the home landscape, it’s because the habitat is there, the suitable habitat is there for those deer ticks,” Dill said.