Connecticut

We have a lot of deer in my very rural county, possibly more national forest here than farmland. So ticks are a problem. They were so bad one hot early summer that I kept finding one on my jeans after I merely walked out to my mailbox. After the third time I took action.

The local farm store provided a solution, albeit a poisonous one. But the ticks never showed up again. And thankfully they have not shown up again for years.

N.B., I understand that they are worse in high heat. (Not sure about that, but the local news seems to think that -- it's often called tick season here.)