We are building a home in Tuftonboro and have found the amount of ticks to be ridiculous. This being our first year here, I hope someone confirms that this is an unusual year. The thought of having the problem this bad every year is a little frightening.

I am assuming these to be brown ticks, not deer ticks. I always understood that deer ticks are so small, they are hard to distinguish, unlike their larger cousins, the brown tick. Is it only the deer tick that can cause Lyme disease?