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Originally Posted by Scott
"...This year, I can't seem to go outside without picking up 1-3 of them. And I'm not going into the woods, I found one crawling up my leg after cutting across about 15 feet of frequently mowed grass.
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I picked up one deer tick and one wood tick on a single day last week. I had assisted my neighbor who has a sunny clearing with scraggly grass. (My lot has
only woods, and no grass).
It's a guarantee you'll get a tick when walking through sunny clearings with scraggly grass. Even parking lots -- paved or not, but bordered with grass -- will get you a tick, too.
The wood tick was easy to detect while crawling, but the deer tick (my first-ever) snuck up and latched on just above my sock. Deer ticks are the
Lyme Disease tick.
Wood ticks, thankfully, just carry Rocky Mountain Fever.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/Signs.htm
