{"id":21237,"date":"2020-11-17T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=21237"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:18:39","slug":"allison-gardner-quoted-in-bdn-on-drought-and-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2020\/11\/17\/allison-gardner-quoted-in-bdn-on-drought-and-ticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Gardner quoted in BDN on drought and ticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer ticks were seen in Maine this summer as dry, hot weather across the state created less-than-favorable conditions for the tiny arthropods. <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/allison-gardner\/\">Allison Gardner<\/a>, assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was quoted in a recent article in the Bangor Daily News about the effects of drought and other factors on tick prevalence.<\/p>\n<p>Allie is a medical entomologist specializing in tickborne diseases. She is part of a team of researchers on the Mitchell Center project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/road-to-solutions\/road-to-solutions-mitigating-environmental-human-determinants-of-tickborne-disease-risk-in-acadia-national-park\/\">Mitigating Environmental-Human Determinants of Tickborne Disease Risk in Acadia National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Bangor Daily News article <a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2020\/10\/28\/act-out\/summer-drought-likely-reduced-tick-activity-in-maine-but-theyre-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer ticks were seen in Maine this summer as dry, hot weather across the state created less-than-favorable conditions for the tiny arthropods. Allison Gardner, assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was quoted in a recent article in the Bangor Daily News about the effects of drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21240,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21237\/revisions\/21240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}