I found this thread because I was looking for the answer to exactly this question... but I'm not finding what I wanted to:

>"I don't think this cold weather coming up is going to have much of an impact on tick populations at all," said Griffin Dill, who runs the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's Tick Lab. "We don't have a lot of snow, but what we do have is providing added insulation to the ticks where they are over-wintering. They have adapted quite well to these conditions."
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>Researchers say a milder climate caused by global warming may be contributing to the expansion of the deer tick's range, leading to increased Lyme cases, a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites. Maine set a record for Lyme disease cases in 2022 with 2,619 cases reported.

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