TICK FREE Wear shoes and light-colored clothing. Tuck pants into socks and wear long-sleeved shirts. Use insect repellent. Walk in the center of trails to avoid overgrown brush. After returning from a potentially tick-infested area, search your body for ticks.
Areas preferred by ticks include the groin, armpits and scalp.
Wash the bite area and hands. Wood ticks appear to be moving into areas of the peninsula where they typically hadn't previously been found, he said. I think we're seeing them move a little more north and east. Tick populations have grown over the past decade, said Al Saverniak, a forester for the U.S. Forest Service office in Munising. There's plenty of them around.