[beautiful_apple]

What's interesting about this study is that ticks were reduced by 50% with untreated woodchips (no pesticides!)

[hammock]

I mean, yeah. Ticks live in grasses not on the ground. If you walk on bare trail and don’t brush on grass or other plants your chance of a tick is much lower

[HappySweeney]

They measured density, not the probability of getting one.

[hammock]

Do you think those are maybe correlated? The measured density on the path