The North Woods of Maine and the brushy, grassy edges ringing the fields and lawns are infested with ticks, tho. Even me, raised on a farm in Virginia, used to getting lot of ticks on me all the time, got the most ticks on me ever in Maine while taking a dump back in the bushes along the Appalachian Trail. Had about 300 on me. Scoured them out with handfuls of wet sand and grit as I thrashed naked in a freezing cold creek. Those 300 Ticks were back in 1991. Zounds! Maine!