Thanks so much for the reply.

It is all wooded on the property. My wife and kids love to hike and explore so we would really use it mostly for hiking and camping, likely also some hunting as my son gets older. That's the thing we really wouldn't have any lawn to spray, so it is what it is. What I really am trying to figure out is does this seed larva stage happen repeatedly throughout most of the spring summer and fall, or do they only lay eggs once or twice each year and the rest of the time they would be in the other stages? If we could just avoid the woods a week or two when they were in this stage, I don't think it is too big a problem. If they were often laying eggs and it was constantly recurring much of the year then it could be a nightmare.

I never knew about these little guys and and just trying to understand if this was a fluke rare occurrence or a common one that would happen every time we went there. I have two young children and we spent a few hours getting the ticks off of us and my daughter has bites all over her legs. It would defeat the entire reason to buy the land if our children didn't like to go there.

Thanks again for the information.