I think you will be fine. Ticks don't bother me that much. When I lived in Arkansas they were a real problem. The ones I really hated were the little seed ticks. You would brush against a weed and later you would suddenly feel them...I have dropped my pants more than once to get them off! :lol: We got ticks on such a regular basis that we would lay them in an ashtray and hold a lighter to them. When they popped, you knew they were dead!