Also agree. While insects stings are part of growing up, I think I only had a tick on me once as a child. Now the "tick check" is part of the bath routine for my kids... even when they stay in the mowed area of our lawn (out of the adjoining woods). I'm in Central PA, for reference.

That said, I chipped a big portion of the lawn for a berry patch/orchard and maintain the wild black raspberry and wineberry outside the wire. Current status: strawberry overload!