Last year’s winner of the tick poster contest for Grade 2 and 3 was Spruce Mountain Elementary School third grader Maisy Emery. Submitted photo

REGION — Friday, May 12, from 12 – 1 p.m. This is a virtual talk about ticks, and registration is required https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/40717484-cf9b-4c7c-9429-c745a5098fb9@413fa8ab-207d-4b62-9bcd-ea1a8f2f864e/registration

This is a timely talk during Maine’s Lyme Disease Awareness Month about ticks: ecology, diseases, prevention measures. Chuck Lubelczyk is a field scientist with Maine Health Institute for Research Vector-Borne Disease Laboratory.

He has been working on tick research since the late 1990s, focusing on the interactions between ticks and mosquitoes and their host and habitat requirements.

As a Vector-borne Disease Work Group member, he is the attendee most-likely-to-participate-while-conducting fieldwork. He knows ticks from a scientific, practical, and personal standpoint. Join us for an engaging and informative talk from one of Maine’s top tick experts for our Lyme Disease Awareness Month-Forestry Friday.