Beware of ticks...already

44man · Apr 2, 2014

well i have been checking around the edge of the woods 2 days in a row and damn if i havent found ticks on me both days. hard to believe with the cold winter and all but i found them sure enough.

Inigoes · Apr 2, 2014

Yeah,

They are out in force, hungry from not having a warm meal all winter!

teratos · Apr 2, 2014

I've had ticks in below zero weather when deer hunting. You always need to look out for the little suckers.....

Skins_Brew · Apr 2, 2014

Kids and I went for a short walk through the woods. The boy had one and so did the dog. I was like "WTF?"

Arcamm · Apr 2, 2014

Maryland, the only place I've ever been where you have to check for ticks after shoveling snow.

BlackBart · Apr 2, 2014

Sucks, so much for my hope of a cold winter slowing them down. :sad20:

Pstango · Apr 2, 2014

And not just because they suck, carry several scary diseases, but also because they could make you allergic to red meat. Apparently it affects B- blood type folks more than others. This story states that it can be transmitted by lone star ticks but I'm pretty sure I read that the bacteria responsible is also found in infected deer ticks too. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/06/tick-bites-blamed-for-red-meat-allergies/6144951/

BigDaddy · Apr 2, 2014

I hunted in Zimbabwe, where the guides, to show that white men are tougher than the native trackers, where short shorts. Many times I emerged through the brush to look down and see dozens of ticks on my pants. A couple hid their way back to America.

dwnthehatch · Apr 2, 2014

I just pulled a deer tick off of my mother's dog in Annapolis.

Dave Taylor · Apr 2, 2014

The way you kin tell iffn' it's a deer tick is if it has little antlers.

Lil' bastids'.

Gryphon · Apr 2, 2014

Thanks for the reminder - just walked my girl through the woods this am and wouldn't have thought it was possible - will be checking her tonight. Me too!

nedsurf · Apr 2, 2014

Yikes! Already? Sigh. Off trail, I wear tall boots with my pants tucked in, Premethrin Deet etc... I hate it walking around looking like some tacticool mall ninja but I can't do another turn with hospital stay, a PICC line, and IV antibiotics.

mdunphyjr · Apr 2, 2014

The wife had one on her about 2 weeks ago at our beach place... The last few years we have been over run with them.

shocka04 · Apr 2, 2014

teratos said:
I've had ticks in below zero weather when deer hunting. You always need to look out for the little suckers.....

+1, I've seen them all winter. Not many but I've gotten them on myself and our dogs

ziondogg · Apr 2, 2014

I hate ****in ticks! What purpose do they serve on this earth?

BlackBart · Apr 2, 2014

ziondogg said:
I hate ****in ticks! What purpose do they serve on this earth?

Bird food?

sxs · Apr 2, 2014

And when the ticks are out, damn chiggers are usually right behind 'em.

smokey · Apr 2, 2014

sxs said:
And when the ticks are out, damn chiggers are usually right behind 'em.

yup, and damned if my nose isn't already starting to feel like I got a tree-sex bukkake to the face. It'll be fun to go back and look at all the "zomg, when is spring coming! I'm done with winter" posts when we're getting hammered with ticks, mosquitos, chiggars, pollen, and 100+ degree days.

nutz · Apr 3, 2014

44man said:
well i have been checking around the edge of the woods 2 days in a row and damn if i havent found ticks on me both days. hard to believe with the cold winter and all but i found them sure enough.

Thanks for the heads up. Haven't seen any yet,but I do need to order some preventer. Thinking about using Talstar this year maybe along with the termiticde. I spray the yard once or twice a season with termiticide and it does a good job keeping the fleas,gnats and chiggers at bay.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/termites-c-3.html

44man · Apr 3, 2014

nutz said:
Thanks for the heads up. Haven't seen any yet,but I do need to order some preventer. Thinking about using Talstar this year maybe along with the termiticde. I spray the yard once or twice a season with termiticide and it does a good job keeping the fleas,gnats and chiggers at bay.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/termites-c-3.html

at the house i usually use the dry pesticide that i get at lowes. i usually gets whats cheapest. at the farm i keep bees so i have to be careful about what i use there plus its a lotta land and woods so i have to use off or deet or something on my cloths to try and keep them at bay. we usually dont see them this early or this bad this early. usually we start getting them bad after tax day and i thought with the cold winter it would be later, but it doesnt seem to be so. oh well time to spray up every time i get out of the truck.

Beware of ticks...already

The #1 community for Gun Owners of the Northeast

Member Benefits:

Ultimate Member

Head'n for the hills

My hair is amazing

loves the smell of cosmo

Ultimate Member

Banned

Active Member

Ultimate Member

10-32

Senior Member

inveniam viam aut faciam

Ultimate Member

Ultimate Member

Active Member

Active Member

Banned

Senior Member

2A TEACHER

Closer to 5's than 10's

Ultimate Member

Users who are viewing this thread

Log in

Forum statistics