Ticks that can carry Lyme disease becoming abundant in Madison

When Susan Paskewitz,a UW-Madison professor of entomology, searched the UW Arboretum two years ago for immature deer ticks, the kind most likely to infect people with Lyme disease, she found 32. Last year, during the same amount of sampling at the same 17 sites in the Arboretum, she found 592.