Posted on 04/24/2017 11:15:21 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
You either removed them within 48 hours or they weren’t infected.
They mean a GOOD Summer for ticks. Bad for people.
Jimmy Walker, PGA golfer just diagnosed.
Interesting. A few weeks ago — in March! — my dog already picked up a tick. I was shocked. The temperature had only been just above freezing and on an irregular basis at that point.
Yeah, could be a bad year.
This year is bad for ticks already here in Northern Ohio.I seem to pick up 2 or more every time I work outside on the farm.
You might have had it and your immune system simply dealt with it.
I was out looking for Morel mushrooms this past week and picked one up. He was firmly locked in on my chest by the time the wifey got to checking me for ticks the next day.
A little bit of rubbing alcohol on a q-tip and that sucker disengaged fairly easy.
They suck....
Oh crap, I already had one tech on me this year, yuck! I’m thinking of buying some permethrin or whatever it’s called. What the heck does corn two years ago have to do with ticks today?
Does anybody know how something like Sawyer’s, with the lower level of permethrin, compares to buying the concentrate and diluting it? I’m hearing that the concentrate doesn’t adhere as well to clothing. But that could be a marketing thing. Anybody with first-hand experience here?
You get many chiggers?
My youngest was diagnosed with Lyme in February (he got the bulls eye rash). We live in the Tampa, FL area and he hasn’t been out of the state in 12 months so he had to contract it here. He tested positive as well based on both blood tests.
The disease is spreading.
I hate the chiggers more than the ticks. They itch and seem to move from place to place on your body using some sort of alien transporter beam.
I call this area “The Garden of Eden, but with more chiggers.”
Last fall I discovered permathrin. All of my outdoor clothing and shoes is treated now. It kills those rat ba$tard$. Even if they crawl off the clothing and on to me and get past the deet, they will die.
At least, that is the plan...
I hiked up the ridge behind my house and shot some video with my Mavic Pro drone of the Tennessee gas pipeline cut.
It’s about 250 feet up and half a mile walk. There are paths for much of it, and about 50 feet through some very light scrub. As I was making my first drone pass, I felt something on my lower back...yeah. tick.
I looked at my pants. Tick. I looked at my arm. Tick. My coat on the ground, 2 ticks.
I shot my drone footage (seen here: https://youtu.be/GmD5t6niOQA )
Walked home...6 more ticks. I showered and may have gotten others.
I did not have much stuff rub against me. I don’t know where these things come from. It’s crazy.
What kind of permethrin do you use? I was going to order some but got confused. Sawyer’s doesn’t have much in it, and half the reviews on Amazon complained about the spray bottle. I can buy concentrate and dilute it, but some of the reviews say it doesn’t have the properties to adhere to clothing.
I found the first one of the season attached to my head. East central Ohio
Hemorrhoids. It’s the climate I tell ya!
The Lone star tick carries a bacteria that can result in allergy to red meat. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140220102727.htm
Photo at link.
In spite of drowning my clothes in deet/permethrins, I’ve been bitten over 30 times already this spring.
I live in Southern NH, near Plaistow. Just moved here from Calif. two years ago. All my neighbors tell me the deer ticks are BAD this year, and be very careful. I have heard several stories of folks of all ages getting Lyme Disease. It is very serious, no joke - people can suffer major neurological problems, mobility problems, speech and memory difficulties, other health effects and even die after couple years. Some of my neighbors are keeping their dogs leashed, not going in woods here in NH, right now. Just saying - be very careful when you are outside in affected areas, keep your lawns cut short, and don’t go hiking or hunting without having clothing coverage. One avid hunter I know in his 60s and a solid Trump conservative who works with Boy Scouts gives me this advice — he keeps the medicine that treats Lyme disease with him - he doses it whenever he has tick bites as a preventative, because he as SEEN the really horrible health effects that can happen. He sure convinced me to be really careful to avoid Lyme.
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