A University of Wisconsin research team will be joining the annual deer hunt — to look for ticks that spread Lyme disease.
More than a dozen scientists led by UW-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz will head to selected Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources deer registration stations Saturday to collect deer ticks from carcasses brought in by hunters.
It’s part of a fight against Lyme disease, which is caused by a bacterium that can be carried by deer ticks that bite people.