Now let's have some fun with a band from Lovell in Oxford County. They call themselves Flooded Cellar and when the warm weather finally arrives they enjoy fishing on Kezar Lake. They also like to stroll through the tall grass in wide open spaces and hike the wooded trails. Along with these nature loving excursions of course comes the threat of terrible tiny beasts...Friggin' Ticks!
As we start spending more time in the great Maine outdoors we are hearing that ticks will be exceptionally plentiful this year. Ugh, great huh. Now let's have some fun with a band from Lovell in Oxford County.
Who knew the life changing effect one of those sticky lint rollers could have on your family during tick season? Our friends at Farmer's Almanac did! Keep one around and roll it across your skin, clothes, and your pet's fur to pick up ticks...
Researchers who were out looking for ticks say they were finding a one every square foot or so in the woods in Cape Elizabeth.
Vector Ecologist Chuck Lubelczyk said deer ticks, which can carry Lyme Disease, thrive in damp climates. If Maine continues to have a rainy spring, the ticks could continue to increase their numbers...
With warmer weather coming, it's time to start thinking about those little pests that come with it. Ticks. those gross little blood drinking bugs that bury their head under your or your pets skin and drinks your blood until they are five times their original size...
Last summer I had to check my pets every day for ticks, and I found way too many. I keep them dosed with Frontline but my cat still managed to come home with them. Time to go on high alert because tick season has returned to Maine and New Hampshire...