300+ volunteer scientists collected 7,246 ticks across Maine, transforming our understanding of tick habitats. Their work could reshape forest management and fight against Lyme disease. 💪🌲 CitizenScience TickPrevention LymeDiseaseAwareness
are diagnosed with or treated for Lyme disease. The blacklegged ticks that have spread across Maine since the 1980s also transmit pathogens that cause diseases like anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
The survey approach pioneered by Allison Gardner, a UMaine medical entomologist and associate professor, and colleagues used active survey techniques, a first among tick community science projects. Previous large-scale tick monitoring relied on passive surveillance. Just as ticks lie in wait for an animal to brush past, researchers waited for unlucky humans to discover and report their encounters. This approach, however, introduces reporting bias that makes data difficult to interpret and ultimately conceals ticks’ habits. The precision of the active survey approach gives communities, policymakers and healthcare providers better data to help people avoid ticks and the diseases they spread.
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