First TICK

[SwampDonkey]

You must need some deer flies and moose flies. An overcast day here means a day with no deer flies. ;D

[WDH]

Down here, the yellow flies are more of a nuisance.  However, ticks can be deadly.

[LeeB]

I actually think I'd rather have ticks than chiggers.

[Magicman]

I would also, today anyway.  I got um off, but they itch.   :-\

[Magicman]

Well, I did not find all of them.  A couple more found me today.   :-\

[sandhills]

I hate chiggers as much as you hate sweetgum MM, I put em right up there with poison ivey, hope they leave you be from now on.

[Magicman]

I got me a "mess" of seed ticks on the 3rd.  'Bout the smallest that I have ever seen, or maybe "not seen".  Itched...yeah.   :-\

[Ron Scott]

They are heavy this year and they are smaller than usual.

[Magicman]

I snatched another off last night.  I say snatched because once I see them, they've gotta go.

[chain]

Be happy you don't have the 'pepper-tick', that's just what they look like until they swell. I've had them on me by the hundreds at one time! I soaked them with tick-repellant, burned my clothes, and still had those critters in my truck for weeks!

I had reported previously, back in the early '80s I was very ill with what some doctors thought was lyme disease. Two seperate hospital week-long stays. Fever every day, chills, rash, aching joints swollen; pain and the dope they gave me, the hullcinations, night sweats and nightmares; then crutches, then a cane, and one foot swollen to where I had to wear a cast-boot for  six weeks. Took nearly a year to get over and back to normal.

Years later I went to a tree-farm day, the special guest speaker was a Doctor with specialties in Lyme disease and Brown recluse spider bites, his research was written in medical journals and the Doctor had a tree farm very near where our property[he did research on ticks there] was located.

[Magicman]

I have never heard them called "pepper tick", but I well understand.  We call that smallest nymph a "seed tick".  I got my magnifying glass out to look for chiggers and found ticks.

[chain]

That's true, they are seed ticks. 'Pepper ticks' is local, but to finish the story, we had squirrel hunted and went over to a resturant for dinner and cool down a bit. I began to have this hot, itchy, stinging sensation on my ankles and shins...something like stinging nettle has caused before, hundreds, maybe a thousand  seed ticks were crawling enmass up my legs!. So we left pronto, I stripped and luckily had the repellant, then soaped down really well with cool pump-water, finally relieved.

[Ron Scott]

I was recently tested for Lyme disease and the test came up negative, so glad of that.

[WDH]

You can say that again!

[LeeB]

Saw an article that said there is a newly discovered tick born disease in MO. So far only two know cases in the world. Somehow related to Haunta virus but not the same.

[chain]

Once bitten, twice shy, they say. Where did you see this info on new tick disease?

[Magicman]

I got wrapped tight with Chiggers Friday & Saturday, I guess when I put the trailcams out.  I am scratching places that I had forgotten I had, and certainly can not see.  They especially seem to love waistlines, etc.    :-\