Pulled a tick off my leg!

[Raven]

Ticks and Mosquitoes absolutely hate Vitamin B1

they hate the taste of Skin that is excreting vitamin B1

I have taken it for this purpose for years (and also give it to my animals)

and will watch a cloud of mosquitoes hover around me and go to dip the straw and then decide not to... not the taste their lookin for.

Back to Ticks: we are all living in the HOT Zone
and you have to use every single thing at your disposal
like strong smelling cedar chips mulch to deter them

front line kills them sure but it doesn't prevent them from burrowing
into your pets for a meal of hemoglobin...but it kills them after they
start gorging on blood that has been inoculated with front-line.

any tall grass has to be cut, keep the animals from going near brush and bushes especially. There the one's bringing them IN.

The organic pyrethium flower flea powder is an excellent dusting powder that doesn't stink you out of the house and it kills all BUGS.

Any type of mint repels bugs so if you buy a plant or two and put it at the base of your Hose faucet where it'll receive plenty of water then you can dig up some and plant it here and there. Catnip too is a member of the mint family and also because of it's aromatic qualities repels bugs.
Pennyroyal is very strong and is a member of the mint family that you can buy oil from....and soak a string in it to put around a dogs neck.

i'd have chickens running around too but that will not fly here.