There are numerous tick removers available in stores around town. Their costs are quite low and they're a great thing to keep around the house. One type I really like is like an ice-cream scoop with a small V cut into it. All you do is slide the ticks body into the V and gently pull while rolling the scoop over. This little item removes the tick quite efficiently.
Chiggers are another unwelcome inhabitant of our Oklahoma outdoors.
These unseen critters can cause intense itching for many days once they've gotten on you. Prevention of them is the same as with ticks, but again the best suggestion I can give is to rid yourself of your clothes as soon as you're out of the outdoors. The worse thing about chiggers is the more you scratch them, the more they itch. For years, folks believed the chigger embedded itself into the skin and by covering it with nail polish or commercial chigger medicines, you could kill the chigger and stop the itching. From my understanding now the chigger bites, feeds and leaves a toxin just under the skin before releasing itself from the body and leaving.