Ticks ticks ticks

[firefighter ontheside]

Christmas day and I just found a tick on my arm.  &***&^% !!! Stupid thing had been there at least overnight, though he seemed to be dead.  Maybe the vaccine kills more than Covid.  I was at a friends house yesterday for Christmas.  I was out in one of their pastures retrieving a soccer ball that the boys had kicked over there.

[HemlockKing]

Christmas day and I just found a tick on my arm.  &***&^% !!! Stupid thing had been there at least overnight, though he seemed to be dead.  Maybe the vaccine kills more than Covid.  I was at a friends house yesterday for Christmas.  I was out in one of their pastures retrieving a soccer ball that the boys had kicked over there.

Dang buggers never give us a break!

[Lostinmn]

One of the few advantages of milling in the snow in northern Minnesota, no ticks for a while.   :D

[firefighter ontheside]

Well, I can't be the first to see one this year, but I had a tick crawling on my arm last week.  My days of strolling thru the woods without a care are at an end for the season.  Gonna be back to nightly tick checks, at least on the nights when I've been out and about.

[kantuckid]

And there's a new tick thing going around too. 

[Old saw fixer]

I've been out in tick country a few times recently, haven't been attacked yet.  Sometimes I think all the meds I take make me unappetizing, then comes may fly season...

[thecfarm]

My Grandson came up to find sheds, found 5 or 6. And found 4 ticks. 

[Ron Scott]

RE:  TICK RESEARCH UPDATE
 
 EAB University webinar
"Tick Talk -- An Update on Tick Research"
Thursday, 7 April, 11:00 (eastern)

Presented by Timothy S. McDermott, DVM, from The Ohio State University
Dr. McDermott has published a Tick Fact Sheet on the Asian Longhorned Tick. The fact sheet "VME-1035-Asian Longhorned Ticks in Ohio" is now available on Ohioline at https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-1035.
 
Go to www.emeraldashborer.info/eabu.php for more information, and to register for and attend the webinar.

[firefighter ontheside]

Well, it has begun.  Felt something on my leg in bed last night.  Yep, tick stuck to me.  I guess my hikes in the woods are almost at an end.  At least without checking for ticks at night.

[Jeff]

My understanding is a very mild winter, like we have had, may result in a tick boom.

[woodroe]

We've found 2 ticks in the last 2 days crawling on the dog already .
And were picking them off him well into December last year. 
Course he's got his nose on the ground and rubs his junk all over every 
fir tree he can find.

[WhitePineJunky]

I got the Lyme disease 🤷�♂️ it can mess you up be careful out there! 

[KEC]

Jeff, the other side of the coin is that ticks can survive a harsh winter if buried under a lot of snow. If there is little snow cover and temperatures go way down, it may kill ticks. So I've heard.

[Jeff]

Problem is, we have had warm too. It may have been single digits once.

[Jeff]

When I have my frog and toad hatch on my pond,  that'll thin em out like last 2 years. We had thousands of amphibians march up that hill towards the cabin 2 different times, and both times our ticks completely disappeared around the cabin, when until that point, they were plentiful.

[beenthere]

Permethrin time is here when going to the woods. 

[Don P]

I'm bathed in DEET and have 6 nasty bites right now, they never froze. They also pulled doxy from the farm supply. Heaven forbid a body would self medicate rather than pay to argue with an anti anti/ anti vax doc at the clinic. Times have sure changed, now I've heard some get doxy on the down low .

[mudfarmer]

Don please PM me your buddy's doxy supplier I am out   oh yeah the ticks are out too. Don't forget the d in doxy please    

[WhitePineJunky]

I'm bathed in DEET and have 6 nasty bites right now, they never froze. They also pulled doxy from the farm supply. Heaven forbid a body would self medicate rather than pay to argue with an anti anti/ anti vax doc at the clinic. Times have sure changed, now I've heard some get doxy on the down low .

I'm on the doxy hunt for next prescription! I want to convince my doctor as I don't believe the short round will rid of it, or ever, I've had it a couple years! But on the antibiotics I feel like a new person! No pain or fatigue 

[LeeB]

Pulled off my first tick tonight while I was in the bathtub. It was in a place no man ever wants one to be. 

[thecfarm]

We did not have ticks about 10 years ago. never found one on me. Now I find more each year. Seem like May, June and July are the worse. I might find about 10 on me in a year. Use to only find one then more each year.

[Jeff]

Someone needs to close the border!

[Don P]

That'd be the Rocky Mt and Connecticut border. DanG snowbirds  . Around here if you're in barberry, you're in ticks. And any of a thousand other places. I think all of these were in the pines in the front yard.

[JD Guy]

We haven't seen any ticks yet this year. Like others some years are worse than other years. We have a small (14) flock of free range chickens that I believe have helped keep the tick population lower in the yard but pasture and woods it's much different. We don't have near the issue that y'all in the upper Midwest deal with however. Know that from my grouse and woodcock trips to Northwoods of WI.

[SwampDonkey]

Been lucky up my way, we don't have them so far. I think southern NB has them as they are always talking about them down there every spring. They can stay down there. :D