Last summer I took my family on a walk through the woodlands that surround the hamlet of Ebernoe, in Sussex. My children clambered on fallen trees, my partner and I hunted for mushrooms, and all the while we were being hunted by creatures more ancient than the last dinosaurs – and so hungry they would have fed on us for days.
How do I know I’m in tick country?
Government agencies often track this information. Here’s the one for Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/lyme-disease/surveillance-lyme-disease.html
(Don’t know if you’re in Canada, so I’m not sure how useful the link is.)