can anyone describe what they look like, I read they are no bigger than a pin head...with my hairy legs I'd never see one...can you feel it if you've been bitten?

ps when at Uni a mate who was a very good canoeist fell in the Mersey and got Limes Disease. it was serious, he turned yellow and was on a drip for 3 weeks and in hospital for 6 weeks!!

to make matters worse he'd only been out about a month when a few of us were having a kick around and he dislocated his knee