I just heard on the radio that the state entomologist said due to the mild winter and early spring there are a record number of ticks everywhere you would expect to find ticks.
I don’t like snakes, but ticks scare me. Get out your bug spray flea collars around the cuffs or boot tops and link them around your waist if you are going out in the southern woods. If you are hypoallergic disregard the previous advice.
I hate ticks.
Uncle Jesse,
I am with you about not liking ticks, but, they really like me! Maybe we need to come up with a fly to represent a tick! : )
I just came back from a trip to RI and was walking the shoreline. I looked down and found atleast ten deer ticks on my pants. I hate them too.
Years ago I spent a lot of time working in the Muscle Shoals, AL area with Reynolds Metals my largest client. The maintenance superintendent for one of their plants told me he had been bitten by a copperhead and had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. He said if he had to do either again he would chose the snake bite. He said several time while fighting the fever he thought he would die.
Thanks Uncle Jesse. I don’t go turkey hunting anymore but my brother does. We had a record mild Winter this year and a record wet Spring. I was at least able to warn him to be on guard.
Remember a spring after a mild winter several years ago and an experiment my son and I tried -YUCK! We both had on athletic shoes with those long white shoestrings. I told my son we’d walk side by side from the gravel driveway down to the barn and back (a distance of about 50 yards total) and see if we collected any ticks and how many. We walked at a brisk pace and hate to think of what would have transpired if we didn’t. My son had 28 mostly just on his shoelaces and I had 33 - AGGHHHHH!!! Also had a tick embedded once on my left side at the waist for at least a day (small deer tick) and it made a sore that lasted forever. Every now and then it would raise up a little and itch like crazy for a while. I think it lasted at least six months or more before it finally went away. I HATE TICKS TOO!!!
GMM…I suspect you had retained the head of the tick…had a less severe experience myself and it was I removed the tick improperly.
I know you would never seen it recommended because of the number of injuries that would result but I remember my dad taking a cigaretter and touching the hot end to the tick before pulling it off. It was supposed to make it withdraw from the skin. Seems like mom used a hot needle.
I have two tube of sunscreen, not a bad idea for us Gringos, that have repellent in it, I think it will get used this year a little more than in the past. One tube is “Off” brand.
I visited one of my favorite local lakes on March 21 and found several lymers crawling on my arms and legs on the drive home, luckily no bites yet, but man what a weird Winter and Spring we have had here in IL. Springfield is supposed to hit 85 tomorrow and 89 Monday- records. We set several new records in the last two weeks. Folks have been finding yellow, grey and black morrels here for the last two weeks- nearly a month early and few in these parts are old enough to remember seeing black morrels here ever. Luke
Ticks don’t like me, I have never had one on my skin, and only once had one on my pants, while golfing. But if you do find a tick imbedded on you, put dishwashing liquid on it. They tell me the tick cant breathe and will back itself out. I’ve never had need to try this, but they say it works
I ususally just use a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol to choke 'em up. They mostly tend to back out if the head isn’t completely buried. Then just pull them out with tweezers. I do the same on my dogs.
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Some are luckier than others
