@armyofda12mnkeys … they get on your clothing and may crawl a bit but quickly die.
They may hang on but will no longer be crawling.
A tip… if you get a load of seed ticks and did not spray first… a wad of duct tape will stick to them and remove them from your clothing or skin if they are not attached yet.
Thats right… duct tape fixes almost everything 
TNHunter
And the best way to remove those is with duct tape.
The opposum-tick connection has been debunked. Alas.
Ah well be warned my folks guineas loved going over to the neighbors (a quarter mile away) at the very crack of dawn to run back and forth on their roof squawking their tiny heads off… its a tough call… neighbors that hate you or Lyme disease… best of luck.
How to dress to minimize tick bites…
Again from an old seng hunter who has lots of experience being in the tick woods all day walking north to north east facing hillsides collecting roots.
We always use tall boots… that come up to mid thigh… either snake boots or tall rubber boots like the Muck Boots type.
Long tube socks… and may use 2 pair even though it is hot.
Put your pants on first and fold the bottom around tight to your leg/ankle. Then put on tube socks and pull them up over your pants leg. If you do that with a second pair of tall tube socks even better.
Then you are ready to put your boots on. Boots that fit tight to your legs are ideal.
What ever shirt you wear… tuck it in and keep it tucked in.
Ticks have a tendancy to get on you at some level… could start on your boots… or mid thigh… and they almost always head up.
If you dont have your pants on and tucked inside your socks like that… they can easily start on your boots and go up… and right up inside your pants legs… and your privates are in big trouble.
They love warm softer skin… and will load up all around and on your privates… not good.
The ones that start out on your pants legs…will mostly crawl up… if your shirt is not tucked in and sprayed… they have easy access to your belly, waistline, underarms, etc…
We always dress right and spray right… and often spend a day covering 15-20 miles of hillsides… and come out with no tick bites.
The other threats that we have to watch out for are rattlers, copperheads, bald face hornets, european hornets.
TNHunter
Ooo interesting… sad they found glass in the stomach though.
Will still continue to encourage them to hang around even if they’re not eating ticks 
Well if they aren’t cleaning up ticks then they’re cleaning up the trash…
Chickens have kept them at bay here. We pick them up every now and then, but the birds are working hard.
The only reliable, proven natural method of tick remediation I’m aware of is controlled burning. That’s what nature used to control ticks for millennia.
Only things that work are DEET and Permethrin. DEET goes on the skin, destroys plastics, and is pretty toxic. Permethrin is used to treat clothing (as was said above (@TNHunter). I make a set of clothing each year by taking pants, socks, hat and long sleeve shirt, and spraying them down on the porch and leaving to dry. It seems like once treated they can be washed a couple times and still work. I also spray my bed sheets- where most ticks end up. Often wear a net over my head and gloves so I don’t need to use DEET at all. I don’t think any of the other repellents work at all. Spring in the UP and Northern WI you need the 100% DEET, 40% works for a little while for mosquitos, and seems to work pretty good for ticks. Permethrin is the best choice hands down.
I love this idea but i also love my spiders 
I agree with the folks saying you really need synthetics to keep ticks completely away.
But some things I’ve done to reduce them that you could consider natural:
Synthetics:
Good point on the other controls. Rodents spread ticks and when I removed the brush piles and mowed, the number of ticks was greatly reduced, as was winter vole damage.
Ground burrowing spiders are likely less effected than web building ones, but I don’t know that for a fact. I can tell you I’ve had great success reducing ticks through burning.
Smoke is about the only effective natural tick repellent I can think of. Just start a fire with some green grass in it and stand down wind of it, nothing will care to be around the smell even angry honeybees to some extent (probably other people too though).
I haven’t seen ticks in years but had them when we moved onto our property back in 2008. We never had huge amounts but I would find a few on me every year. I did controlled burning by sweeping leaves into rows and burning. I did that for a couple of years and that seemed to help keep our 1.5 acre plot cleaner (less stuff around growing high). Then, I got chickens in 2023. I haven’t had a tick on me in years at this point. I can’t speak to which is more effective and I’ve never actually seen my chickens eat a tick, but I do think that both are helpful as my neighbors still mention ticks from time to time and I’m outside easily four times more then I used to be and haven’t had an issue. One side issue I didn’t know Chickens would help with is my ungodly ant population. They will eat the big black ants and even the fire ants and termites. But those tiny little black ants that I’m allergic to, they leave alone.
We send a few sets of clothing to a company called Insect Shield. They have an industrial strength process that will last 40+ washes. (I have no connection to the company other than as a satisfied customer).
Our property has Fields and acres of woodlands. The ticks are aggressive.
We also do a lot of what folks have said here: spray shoes. Wear boots. Tuck pants into the socks they put the boots on. Tuck shirts in.
We also keep sticky lint rollers at the front door & roll ourselves and the dogs in case any ticks came home with us.
At least the ticks are slow to attach - even with all our precautions, we typically find them on us.
I had a set of clothes from them, worked well enough that i started treating my own with Permethrin. Thier stuff makes it through more washes and still works (than my spray… they must dunk and soak the clothes), but i can just spray again. Good products.