Wearing light colored socks and pants will help you spot them -- they are just about impossible to find on dark colored clothes.

While it will make you look like a dork, you can tuck your pant legs into your socks if you need to walk through an area of tall grass. Also keep in mind deer tics and Western black-legged tics (the ones known to carry Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever) are much smaller than traditional ticks. The nymphs are only about the size of the head of a pin.

There is a bunch of information availble online, so read up on things. The Western black-legged tick is the one that you need to watch out for in Oklahoma.



Jim