Its very woodsy here in the South and Ive been finding their corpses laying ontop of my covers in the morning.
I happen to have been taking Ivermectin horsepaste for the past 2 weeks and I'm pretty sure they're dying when they bite me. Also, their bites end up being no more than a red dot. No infection, no itch, nothing. They used to turn into painful, solid, infected knots that would last 3 months or more.
Ivermectin appears to kill the original perp, then kills the parasites and viruses they pass on to you.
Its a good pre-emptive measure that I have now seen real-world results with my own eyes.
I suffer from chronic lyme, from a bite I got 3 decades ago, it is a slow degeneration, slowed down a lot if you maintain a very healthy life, but the collagen eating bacteria like to munch away in your joints until you are bone on bone. The deer tick, the red legged tick is the one that carries the lyme, but other ticks also carry the bacteria that gets into your system. A bulls eye rash, and then flu like symptoms about 2-3 days after the rash. If that happens, please get on some Doxy, no one wants this as a chronic issue, it is similair to Lupus in the damage it does. On a good note, can you have chickens? My property is free of ticks because of their free ranging. If you have a dog or a cat that is treated for ticks, either monthly or with a collar, dead ticks will fall of your pet.Most likely the Ivermectin is doing for you what it will do for another critter, kills them while they are trying to suck your blood. I am up Northeast, and I know guys who used to go down to PA. for deer hunting, they stopped because the deer were so full of ticks it turned them off of the hunt.