Tick season!!!

[STICKBENDER98]

With everyone out in the woods after turkeys, mushrooms, or just a peaceful day in the woods stumping or scouting, don't forget o check for ticks!!!  Had a co-worker who had one imbedded in their back shoulder, no ill effects but you can't be too careful.


Jason

[CRM_95]

I'm afraid they're gonna be bad in my neck of the woods this year. I've already picked a couple up, but luckily I found them before they attached to me. I hate ticks!!

Ticks come from Transylvania, just like the English Royal Family.  I know this to be true because they have that Attila The Hun accent, "I vant to drrrink your blootd."

[Sam McMichael]

Yeah, they are bad around here. I used a LOT of permethrin spray this weekend and still got 2 on me.Damn, they itch!

[B.Barker]

I've pulled sixteen out of me so far. They be everywhere here in Kentucky.

[Shadowhnter]

Use permanone on your clothes.

[Pat B]

I saw a show on TV the other night that said that a possum will pick off and eat 50 to 60 ticks a day and aren't susceptible to Lyme's disease. They don't look so ugly any more.
 We've taken only 2 off our dog this year, none off of ourselves...and we live in Transylvania County,NC.

[Roy from Pa]

I've had 2 embedded in my skin the past year and both caused me problems.
X's 2 on permethrin.

[Dan bree]

Bad here in jersey also . Picked a lot off me as well . Don't forget to check your dogs . One of mine got lime last year .

[njloco]

O.k., permethrine on the skin ?, not good, check out Badger's bug spray especially for the kids ! Works great on the pets also. Since using this I have not gotten a tick on me. Also, crawling and flying bugs, can't stand mint!

They have now found out that whole Sylvia leaf extract does even better than antibiotics when fighting lymes !

[Pat B]

Permanone gets sprayed on your cloths before you wear them, not on your skin. I hang my cloths on the cloths line, spray them, especially around the waist, pant leg bottoms, sleeves and neck areas but all over in general. After about 5 minutes on the line and they are good to wear. I've read it works after a washing too. Any insect that lands on your cloths is dead, not just ticks.

[Roy from Pa]

Permethrin also is sprayed on your cloths, not on your skin. It lasts through quite a few washing too.

Tony Dean told me one day when we were bluegill fishing, the reason he always wore bright blue was because ticks hate sky blue and want nothing to do with it.  Sky blue works for turkey hunting as well, because the turkeys don't think that you are a turkey hunter.

[Pat B]

Yeah but other turkey hunters might think you are a turkey. I always heard to never wear red, blue, white or black during turkey season.
 Roy, Permanone is a brand name and the active ingredient is permethrin, I believe.

I always wonder about that because turkey hunting is suppose to be a close quarter game, but then considering some of the antics of the run and gun kids, anything is possible.

[mikolay87]

I shot my clubs field course and I had 3 attached to me yesterday. This is going to be a bad year

[dbd870]

Yeah, I picked one up tearing down the club's last 3D shoot.

[Rob DiStefano]

hello, my name is rob and i have lyme disease.

there is only a "tick season" because these are the times of year we go afield.  

in actuality, ticks are prevalent year 'round, no matter what the temperature or precipitation.  

my spaniels would come back from running in the woods and covered in ticks right in the middle of a nor'east january winter snowfall with a foot of snow already on the ground.

many diff'rent species of ticks are everywhere, all the time.  so are skeeters.  BOTH bug types can infect a human with spirochetes (lyme disease - the special bacteria that's in a class all of its own).

there's a lot of nonsense going around about lyme disease, and for the most part it can be hard to get at the real truth behind this epidemic tragedy that's befallen humanity.  research carefully and know yer options if, and when, you get infected ... and how to know for sure IF you are infected with spirochetes AND its deadly co-infections.

[khperkins]

Mid Maine here. They are bad this year. No bites for me, but have found them on clothes. Permethrin spray coming up.

[Tater]

Ticks are bad here, I have permetherin sprayed clothes for when I cut wood and work in the field, no ticks embedded in two years, I am diligent do not want any tick borne disease.
   I have a separate set of camo sprayed I use during Turkey season.