WGME interviews Dill on ‘No Mow May’
WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab coordinator Griffin Dill about whether residents should worry about tick exposure if they participate in “No Mow May.” Dill said short grass isn’t suitable for ticks because they can dry out in the sun, but they can be found along the edge of yards that border forests. “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.