The ticks that succumbed to the cold died generations ago.

Route 1 Caribou to Van Buren is closed. Plows can't keep up with the drifting.

It’s just going to make them tougher

you dont. realizing limitations in our ability to make political change makes change.

-21 where that drifted too lol. Sat for 45 mins waiting for plow to show up and car froze to the ground. And I was shielded by some trees where I parked

Yeah pretty intense. Had to backtrack into PI and go around to get to Washburn. The main drag to presque Isle had some drifts blocking off the whole breakdown lane and driving lane. Had to cross to the other side to get around. If it wasn't a 3 lane stretch then that would've been hard to get through

That’s crazy! I’ve seen some snow drifts before but not that amount of distance before. Stay safe!

There we go. The pic with the left side of road clear is about 100' before I got to the snowbank in the 2nd pic

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For some reason it won't let make post the pic. It's still not plowed out as of this moment.

I’ll drink to that

20 below penetrates. Won't get 'em all but will get a good number.

5 above might not do the job but 20 below ought to be enough to give the moose some relief.

The couple of cold snaps should be sufficient to reduce those stupid moths, too.

Ground blizzards

Early season snowfall is the thing that will reduce their population over winter. Ticks need to fall onto bare ground after their last blood meal in the Fall. Being covered in snow after that insulated them from the worst of the cold. If they feed and then fall onto early season snowpack they won’t survive.

It's supposed to be 40 tomorrow so like, they'll probably just wake back up and be at it again. Lol.

They’ve gotten good at surviving these. The most lethal events are the big cold snaps in like April after they’ve woken up for the first time

That’s insane, is there any pictures of it ?

Maybe If we didn't have any snow

The TLDR is that the amount of snow we have around the state will essentially protect them from this cold snap - so snow insulation will likely protect them.

I found this thread because I was looking for the answer to exactly this question... but I'm not finding what I wanted to:

>"I don't think this cold weather coming up is going to have much of an impact on tick populations at all," said Griffin Dill, who runs the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's Tick Lab. "We don't have a lot of snow, but what we do have is providing added insulation to the ticks where they are over-wintering. They have adapted quite well to these conditions."
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>Researchers say a milder climate caused by global warming may be contributing to the expansion of the deer tick's range, leading to increased Lyme cases, a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites. Maine set a record for Lyme disease cases in 2022 with 2,619 cases reported.

Source

There was a note in the press herald about this:

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/02/01/no-this-weeks-deep-freeze-wont-be-mean-fewer-ticks-this-spring/

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Here's to hoping a bunch of those little fuckers froze last night.