Lee Ann Sporn is one of the few people on earth who actually hopes to see ticks.
And unfortunately this year, they aren’t biting, at least not as much.
Sporn, a professor at Paul Smith’s College, collects ticks around the Adirondacks to study their population density. She also sends them drowned in alcohol to the state Department of Health, where the arachnids will be tested to see what types of disease-causing agents they might be carrying. Results are then reported to county health departments.

Source: Alton Telegraph