Yeah, it was pretty bad here last year. I'd let the leaf matter from the previous autumn and didn't mow enough that spring to knock them down in our yard. And

Yeah, it was pretty bad here last year. I'd let the leaf matter from the previous autumn and didn't mow enough that spring to knock them down in our yard. And our home is surrounded by public land (Army Corps) that's all forested. So there are a lot deer and other forest critters that visit us daily and bring them in. This year I got on top of cleaning up our yard, and keeping the grass short so it hasn't been near as bad. I did end up spraying some bug killer right around the house and under our decks. As a result of all that I've not seen a tick on me from any of the spaces shown in the video I made last Spring. Still have a few "chiggers" out there though, but those can be killed off easy with diatomaceous earth in the early Spring so I'll lay some of that down again next year. I did it about 6-7 years ago and it knocked them down until this year, and it's still not near as bad as it was back then. We have some blackberry and raspberry bushes growing out there and they were covering my shoes and marching up my pant legs when I was picking berries back then.