I've found ticks every time I've been in the Illinois woods this year, but I agree about the chiggers.

same here, every time we go down to Illinois we come back with a least 2 on both of us. Here in Mich. We have to
check over the dogs all the time we have found a few so far.

They have been bad but luckily I have only had the big ones on me. When I start finding the seed ticks is when it starts to get serious.[:@]

Horrible. I had 4 crawling on me. Unfortunatly,I drove back home in my truck without changing, and I found one in my truck the other day. Big mistake.

In the last week I have removed several small ticks, been torn up by chiggers, and just yesterday while under my truck some kind of ant wasp bit the hell out of my back....not fun.

They're not that bad here in Wisconsin. I got one 2 weeks ago though.

They are always lousy in my area especially the seed ticks that are as tiny as a pin tip [:@]

Seem to be all over this year, a little worse than last year. They were especially bad during spring turkey hunting.