If the extent of your knowledge about ticks is that you should tuck your pants cuffs into your socks when hiking, come to Midcoast Conservancy on Monday, Oct. 17 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., when Charles Lubelcyzk will present a tick prevention outreach seminar. “The talk will be geared toward environmental aspects of tick-borne diseases, with a focus on what to look out for and what people can do, around homes, as the fall tick season is now coming up.”

Lubelcyzk, who has a master’s in public health, works at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, and has expertise in ecology, entomology and parasitology. He is part of a research team whose goal is to investigate the spread of disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes in Maine and the disease agents they carry. The team also develops new strategies for tick control, and based on this work, informs the public about the risk and how to prevent it.

To register for the talk, go to midcoastconservancy.org/events. For more information, or with questions, call (207) 389-5150 or go to midcoastconservancy.org. Midcoast Conservancy is located at 36 Water Street in Wiscasset.