Ticks are a continuing and growing menace in Connecticut, spreading Lyme disease and a variety of other serious maladies.Warmer weather has enabled the blood-sucking parasites to survive and thrive in the state, scientist and tick expert Goudarz Molaei of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said in an interview Tuesday.
Disease carrying ticks that were first seen only in pockets along the Connecticut coast have spread into other parts of the state during a summer explosion of the blood-sucking parasites.