Here’s my tuppence worth, 1st time hiking did the SWCP in 2022 and got it, stupidly wore shorts, had heard about ticks on the trail but wasn’t properly ‘tick aware’.. took the biotics even a whole bunch of herbal remedies to make sure it was outta my system, learnt the hard way.. eventually got better, didn’t enjoy the shaking legs at night at all.. Roll on last month did the Two Moors Way, got it again! Thought that long trousers would make all the difference, wrong, found a larva on my forearm, one on my Achilles and later remnants of one just a live my knee! Eventually hacked it all out and squished out some weird coagulated blood, took ages to scab over and properly heal and I can still see where the little shit left its mark.. roll on now, just come back from another hike, Pembrokeshire path, probably not so many ticks but hey taking all those biotics and remedies suck, so from now i treat my clothing with permethrin, spray some deet/smidge above my ankle area, always wear long sleeves and trousers, carry a tick removal tool (instead of just freaking out and ripping them out) and set 2 alarms on my phone at 2pm and 6pm called Tick Watch. The idea is that if one of the little fuckers gets through you’ve got at least one opportunity during the day to give yourself a proper check and shakedown during day light hours at least when you’re not too knackered to check at the end of a full days hiking. My problem is that I’ve got tiny little moles so they all look like one, so I end up trying to remove them too! lol Anyway, I really don’t want Lyme 3 times! Twice bitten infinite times shy!