Keep the little buggers off you to begin with, this article says. One tip:
4. Use a tick repellent when going hiking or taking a picnic.
Here’s a page with even more anti-tick strategies.
Keep the little buggers off you to begin with, this article says. One tip:
4. Use a tick repellent when going hiking or taking a picnic.
Here’s a page with even more anti-tick strategies.
Call me glib, call me crazy, call me naive, callme strident — but I’m sick and tired of everyone OH SO WORRIED about ticks in the wild. And sick and tired of people spraying chemicals on themselves in nature to prevent tick bites. I’ve been bitten probably 10 times in the past three years, and NO, I have not come down with Lyme disease or spotted fever or whatever else the tiny arachnids might give you. Mostly, they’re harmless. . .and even if, like I am, you’re allergic to their bites, it’s just a bit of discomfort. Why lather yourself in chemicals (I say the same about sun screen) or get all in a lather about non-existent dangers. Just take care to check yourself every so often if you get off trail or plop down in the grass under a tree for a refresher. Now, of course, I expect to get reamed on this. Do I have any allied thinkers in this regards? (In all my 35+ years of hiking, I have not once used tick or mosquite repellent.)