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I got a tick late last year on a weekend up in Glentress/Innerleithen. Just below my knee and unfortunatly that area was covered up by my bib-tights.
The only one that ever attached itself to me died! I removed it's dried husk from my thigh 2 days later.
Don't try and pull them off you'll leave bits of them in you - they have corkscrew shaped mouthparts and you basically have to unscrew them (anti clockwise ) pref using one of those hooks but you can just about do it with tweezers .
Contrary to popular belief, ticks do not screw themselves into the skin and cannot, therefore be "unscrewed"! You pull them with a steady tension opposite from the direction the mouth parts are inserted.
Twisting gives a greater chance of leaving the mouth parts behind.