>just tuck
>just tape
>just check after long grass
This is all good advice for people who are taking leisurely strolls through the local park. If you've done forestry work though, you know that your clothes will come untucked by the 2nd hour, dew/sweat will loosen your tape and you're not stopping to check every 5 minutes while you're working. The sweat also wears down the effect of permethrin/deet/picaridin, so reapply if conditions call for it. Tuck, tape and spray are good precautions but they won't keep you 100% safe.
If you're working forestry, shower nightly. Tick check in the shower, run your hands over every part of your body, and BE THOROUGH. In 8 days at a forestry camp in Thunder Bay, I counted about 2-3 ticks daily on my clothes, and managed to get out with only one actual bite, under my right arm. That bite went unnoticed, by the way, until I stretched in front of a friend who then pointed out the 3 inch bruise forming. Nightly checks suffice to avoid Lyme taking root. The super at that job spent multiple summers in Tbay picking ticks off, and manages to eat burgers without arthritis at 30. However, i'll take bees, wasps, hornets, mosquitoes, blackflies, deerflies, horseflies and a combination of what i listed any day over ticks. I fucking abhor ticks. The idea that a bug smaller than my pinky nail can bite me, go unnoticed and cripple me for life? Send them to hell. Total ticker death.
