adult and juvenile deer ticks
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Preventing tick bites-effective ways to repel ticks

Ticks were rare in Vermont, where I live, until a couple of decades ago. By rare, I mean that we only had dog ticks to worry about. Even the loggers, farmers, and hunters didn’t worry. Now, it’s almost always tick season—except in the dead of winter—with peaks in late spring/early summer and fall. The primary…