If you want to read an article about this situation then check out my post here: www.cachecrazy.com/2012/04/prepare-for-surge.html

I just bought my bottle of permethrin and I'll be putting it on my clothes soon.

That's a very informative article. Though I think the scale is off on those ticks! The biggest ones pictured are really much, much larger when they are crawling up one's legs. Especially in the Poconos.

The "larger" ticks you notice in the Poconos are probably the American Dog tick. Deemed Lyme-free, unfortunately they sometimes carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
- I'll take another case of Lyme thank you.
Fortunately they're easy to spot.

The tiny ticks in the article, the Black-legged tick, is what we used to call Deer ticks. Some researcher realized it wasn't a new species, "just a Black-Legged."
- Yeah, thanks.
Most still know these little guys as the chief carriers of Lyme Disease and associate it with deer. It'll take a while before we stop calling 'em Deer ticks.
- I still call 'em Deer ticks too - and a couple other names.
Little guys, some nymphs no bigger than one of these periods.
Most times you don't notice you have them.

The first that gave me Lyme was the size of a poppy seed.

- And you were only worried of things that go bump in the night.

Whistlers wrote:
That's a very informative article. Though I think the scale is off on those ticks! The biggest ones pictured are really much, much larger when they are crawling up one's legs. Especially in the Poconos.

Aren't they always bigger when they are crawling up your leg or down your arm? For me the bigger the better. That makes them easier to see. I hate those little buggers.

Ticks have been awful everywhere. In December I was hiking in Rothrock State forest and had over 50 of them crawling on my cloths. This spring though I've only had about 10-15 so far. Eventhough I'm in NV now, they are still out here too. Not as bad though. If we get a good winter and a bad mast crop this year the problem should go away.

Ugh, I was at seven tubs yesterday and I checked myself before I left. I was sitting at my house and one of those little buggers crawled across my arm.