Ticks

[dbutch]

More deer = more ticks
More mast forage = more mice = more ticks

I pre-treat my outerwear with a bed bug-flea spray-.20 permethrin
Seems to work!

 

[FishDFly]

If you want to keep ticks off you, spray your boots, pants legs and your belt area with Off.

Put some Seven Dust in an old sock. Pat your pants while they are still damp from the Off, with Seven Dust.

We are the woods alot and the above works.

 

[Dave Marsh]

Thank you Roundball. I have two friends with Lyme's disease pretty bad. Not something that you want to get. My stuff is on order and am going to follow your recipe. Thanks.

:hatsoff:

Dave

 

[roundball]

Permethrin is the real deal for sure...

 

[Little Wattsy]

Ticks are a dangerous menace but I don't recall ever reading anything about them plaguing long hunters, etc. In fact when I was a kid I almost spent the summer in the woods and don't remember getting ticks. They would occasionally be found on dogs but rarely on people. What did we do to cause this?

Tics, like so meny other things, are hyped up in order to sell attention to the people... They have always been there, ocassionaly someone gets one, yah they can carry a desiese but they are relatively rare in occurance. Ive hade two in 45 years, know less then 5 others in all the people I know off the top of my head. No one got sick even a little bit.
But they sell news stories, magazine articles, and hype...

 

[Roy]

I blame it on the lack of birds.. no grouse, no quail.. They have to be a huge tick predator :haha:

 

[larry wv]

Lots of ticks around here in the summer. It's according to the temp and amount of rain how bad they get. Chiggers are more of a pain for me. They get in hay sometimes and that really sucks. It's all down hill after you unplug a hay baler a few times on a hot day and find out later Chiggers were in the hay. :shocked2: Larry

 

[hanshi]

I think you guys are on to something: fewer control burns, fewer bobwhites, etc. Being originally from Ga, I know fire ants. People who have never had to deal with them would have a hard time comprehending how bad the problem can be. It was never a trick to sit in one place and count 20 mounds, some nearly a foot high, by just turning your head. And when they sting they leave scars.

It's a fact that in the past....oh, three decades or so, ticks have gone from rare to overwhelming. Ticks and the dozen or so diseases they commonly carry simply weren't a problem years ago.

Last spring I decided to try permethrin and spray my clothes with it. I didn't get a single tick and I was in the woods after turkey at least 5 or six times. I got a couple from the back yard but not the woods. This year I got the big bottle for economy and it should last several seasons. I also found some 98% DEET. A little of that rubbed on exposed skin will be great insurance. Is this something that can be blamed on the Europeans, etc?

 

[Archer 756]

:hmm: Bizzarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

 

[BillinOregon]

Lyme can take a terrible toll if untreated, and we have it in Oregon now, too -- and perhaps had it all along but misdiagnosed. When I was a little toot in the mid 1950s, we lived in Missoula, Montana, and I managed to get a tick in my ear that gave me spotted fever. Doctor made a house call and shot me full of penicillin with one of those big old stainless syringes they used over and over hot out of the autoclave. I howled like a Banshee, the folks told me. The high fever gave them quite a scare. Times have sure changed.

 

[blackpowderscout]

According to the CDC, Lyme carrying ticks pretty much only like Yankees...LOL

Link

 

[Chris Hayes]

In my profession, the data doesn't lie!

 

[dbutch]

Tics, like so meny other things, are hyped up in order to sell attention to the people... They have always been there, ocassionaly someone gets one, yah they can carry a desiese but they are relatively rare in occurance. Ive hade two in 45 years, know less then 5 others in all the people I know off the top of my head. No one got sick even a little bit.
But they sell news stories, magazine articles, and hype...[/quote]
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Wish I lived and played where you do! Lyme's disease is no joke around here!

 

[Roy]

I had 7 in one day.. hype maybe :idunno:

 

[necchi]

Tics, like so meny other things, are hyped up in order to sell attention to the people... They have always been there, ocassionaly someone gets one, yah they can carry a desiese but they are relatively rare in occurance. Ive hade two in 45 years, know less then 5 others in all the people I know off the top of my head. No one got sick even a little bit.
But they sell news stories, magazine articles, and hype...

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Wish I lived and played where you do! Lyme's disease is no joke around here!

You got that right brother! Lyme disease is rapidly rising here in Minn.
It's something to watch for now-a-days.
It's treatable and kinda harmless if caught early enough, but it can leave you damaged for the remainder of your life if it develops too far.

 

[Spikebuck]

Chiggers are more of a pain for me.

We don't seem to have many chiggers around my home area. Never had them until I walked the trails down in the woods at President Jackson's estate in Nashville. Later that day started itching like crazy....just a burning itch. Worse than bad poison ivy. My son-in-law picked them up too. Only time I've ever had them and hope it's the last.

 

[smo]

The best way to control chiggers is to stay out of the tall grass. Ticks are a different story they will fall out if trees onto you I had Lyme disease two summers ago luckily I caught it early It started with a small red area on my side just below the arm pit. The second day the area was twice as large as the first day. By the third day it's the size of a softball and has a white halo around it The forth day I'm off to the Dr getting a shot and a script. Two weeks later all signs of it was gone. Funny thing was I never found a tick on me. No Hype here but plenty of opportunities.

 

[Little Wattsy]

Tics, like so meny other things, are hyped up in order to sell attention to the people... They have always been there, ocassionaly someone gets one, yah they can carry a desiese but they are relatively rare in occurance. Ive hade two in 45 years, know less then 5 others in all the people I know off the top of my head. No one got sick even a little bit.
But they sell news stories, magazine articles, and hype...

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Wish I lived and played where you do! Lyme's disease is no joke around here![/quote]

It never was a joke, Im just saying it dosnt happen very often anymore then accidental shootings or choking to death on a piece of fresh backstrap...

 

[hanshi]

I'm convinced it's no hype. When I lived in Ga (62 years) I couldn't help notice the rise in tick prevalence. Lyme, as bad as it is, is not the only or even worst thing they transmit. Even the uninfected tick's saliva can cause paralysis in some people. People; these are bad dudes and need no hype.

Chiggers are no fun. I can't say their occurrence has changed in any way since I was a kid. But I never heard of anyone dying from, being confined to a wheelchair or iron lung by or left a drooling vegetable from a chigger.

 

[larry wv]

I don't know Hanshi..Those chiggers have left me drooling a few times. :haha: Have had several hundred bites at a time before. Thought I was going to have to buy some stock in a finger nail polish store. Larry