My in-laws are worried about them. They are starting to breed Rottweiler’s again, and have heard about some local folks almost losing one to a bad tick bite reaction.
I have been picking them off me almost daily, but I’ve been outside a lot as well. Walking, working in the weeds, and you almost expect it. I wore shorts outside yesterday and got my legs attacked by some kind of bug(s). Today I wore old torn jeans, much better.
Quite a year for ticks (and mosquitos and black flies) around here in Maine-3 on my back yesterday!
Tell me about it, I kill several every day. Last night I had one dug in on my back and my kiddo had 2 nymphs. This is crazy!
Found one on my pants about a week ago. My approch is preventing them form attaching to your body. I wear light colored pants so they can easily be seen crawling on you. Tucking your pants into your socks will prevent them from going up your leg where they can’t be seen. The last thing I do but not as well as I should do is cut the tall grass regularly as the tend to crawl up and when you pass by they attach to your legs.
I’m not out there in the country, so I rarely see them. Not many deer carrying them around here. Or any other animals.
As far as removal I found the articles posted amusing in many ways. As a researcher I always laugh at the word “may”. Which translates into “we don’t know???”
Ugh be careful!
Not a bad idea Mike, however I hate to think I am making the orchard mice and vole’s lives any easier…
I’m to the point I won’t (or my kids) go into the woods during spring. I think summer you are a little safer, but who wants to go tromping around the woods when its 90F and muggy. I save all our hiking for late September through the winter. I should have fled to Vegas decades ago 
Think AZ, beautiful place and better fruit opportunities than Vegas. You’d love hiking the slot canyons of AZ and UT.
I,as many of us here, have plans with especially unpleasant end results for the rodentoids.
Mike
My brother was just through utah… Said it was the prettiest of all the states he drove through
I’d agree with your brother. I like the wide open vistas with rugged terrain. It’s great hiking country except for being rather cold in winter and hot in summer. I’d like to have a vacation place in Moab. Grand Junction is close by and has a solid fruit industry.
Treat a set of clothing with permethrin and tick encounters are pretty much eliminated.
Agree. Permethrin on clothes and shoes is the answer.
Is there a particular form of permethrin that’s used on clothes as opposed to the stuff we use in our orchards ?
Mike
Sawyer sells a product sold specifically to spray on clothes. It contains permethrin at 0.5% concentration. My son uses that in a tick area and he says it works. Any mixture at that concentration should work fine.
Thanx
Mike
I use the same stuff I use on my fruit trees. I add an ounce per gallon of water to my 2 gallon sprayer, lay the clothes out on the lawn and soak them. Hang them to dry and you’re good to go. I’ll wash them 4 times before re-treating (I don’t wash them every time I wear 'em, a bit of funk ain’t gonna hurt anything when I’m out working)
My wife and I have strongly considered getting some guineas for our 87 acres, but having been around them previously I just can’t do it. The darn things are noisy, noisy, noisy. We may still get some in the future, but probably when I lose more of my hearing 
I’ve read university research showing guineas reduce tick populations to very low levels (albeit in test pens…so the guineas couldn’t leave the area)
You don’t eat them?