Jordan Fenster reports in the Poughkeepsie Journal that the ticks are back out in the Hudson Valley. "It’s not unusual to begin seeing adult black legged (or deer) ticks in spring, or even occasionally in winter, once temps are over about 40 degrees," said Thomas Daniels who is in charge of Fordham University's Louis Calder Center in Armonk, where he counts ticks. He explains about the type of ticks one would find under leaves in the woods now: "The adults you see in the spring are the holdovers from the fall population," he said. "They’re literally starving to death so we only see them early in the season – it’s their last chance to get a blood meal. They then die off and we begin to see the nymphs come up in late spring; they will persist through the summer and into early fall." Read the full story in the Poughkeepsie Journal.