Just found my first tick of the season. Be careful out there

I live in TN as well. My oldest daughter and I went turkey hunting yesterday and both of us had a couple of ticks on us.

Got my first during a warm spell back in February, and that's here in Mass!

Found another Saturday after setting up 3D course. Warmer weather coming, time to set up a permethrin 'suit' for the woods.

It's time for me to stop missing targets and having to go in the brush to find my arrows! I don't get them if I stay in the yard

This year is going to be lousy with ticks. Mild winters are great for deer herd survival and ticks too unfortunately. Turkey hunting should be a thrill.

some areas are worse than others. I hardly see a tick in the river bottom I hunt but see a bunch in the hills. I treat my clothes with the tick treatment from Tractor Supply. 1/4oz in a quart spray bottle seems to do the trick.

We use Permanone on cloths and boots,if you ever get a good dose of those Seed Ticks in Middle Tenn you will not go out without some kind of treatment.

I wasn't thinking about ticks and didn't spray when I went out for the TN turkey opener, I picked four ticks off various body parts after my hunt.

They are the Arkansas State Bird. I have found them on my dog in January.

Increasing nationally due to growth of whitetail population.

N central Ohio. Son went out for 90 minutes shed hunting and found 9 ticks on him. Not going to be pretty.

Three deer ticks taken off our Brittany spaniel this past weekend in Maine. There was still 4+" of snow on the ground for 80% ground coverage- and yet deer ticks were out. This was the start of the warm weather. Now down to about 10-20% snow coverage.

Using Tom Tom's for tick removal. Looks like a very small claw hammer/crowbar. Works very well, and always gets the whole tick out-no left behind heads.

2017 will be the year of the deer tick. We need to put about 100,000 chickens or guinea foul let loose in the woods. Nature's tick eaters.

the ticks were active all winter here in central 'bama

We are infested with Deer....the ticks were very bad last year but I hadn't seen a single one since the fall. And I've been in the woods a lot

Be wachfull for a bullseye looking rash around a tick bite. I got rocky mountain spotted fever in 2001 its the sickest ive ever been. Freezing and sweating for 4 days.

i shouldnt bring this up but i will, you got ta watch ery thang when you is around ticks, i found one last week on my body and of all the places it was on the side of my PECKER yap my wang dand,lol,now dats a funny thang i guess but who would of thunk it,any who yall be carefull out dare this year cuz dim dam little thangs will show up any were,ALPHAMALE ,well now i guess you can call me the pecker inspecter,lol, thanx

LOL Alphamale, it's funny, and not at all. Them little buggers make me itch terrible. I found my first one for the season last night right above my naval. I'm sure you gents are correct about mild winters, but even when you get a good solid winter, they manage to survive. We rarely have anything of a serious winter here. So they reproduce and continue to be problems.

-Bones

Got one off me yesterday even after a walk in the woods. They're out for sure.

Rick

Not all ticks produce Lyme Disease, but if you do get it it can lead to dementia...like Alzheimers. VERY hard to treat.

timex, I understand the red bull seye generally indicates Lyme disease infection. Not sure it relates to RMSF.

We have had a couple ticks on the dogs since the big storm and freeze in March, but we had way more out in January this year. Dogs had dozens on them, with many biting and filled, in Jan. and Feb. Since the last big March snow dump and frozen ground prior to that, we have seen very few. Maybe that cold and snow actually bumped them back this time. Sure hope so. I'd be surprised, but it could have actually whacked them.

"Be wachfull for a bullseye looking rash around a tick bite."

that 'bullseye" doesn't always show up. it didn't on Dad. it was several months before they figured out what was wrong with him.

Tons of them here in Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. No let up all winter long...it is common to pick 30-40 off after shed hunting....we got to the point of stripping down and changing cloths before getting into the truck. Turkey season ought to be a real treat this year.

no i didn't have the bullseye with the rmsf tick bite but it was different looking and didn't heal. It was about 2 weeks from the bite till i got sick. The doc said i was lucky sometimes it takes months before you actually get sick and it can do neurological damage in that time. Be careful. Also I've seen the bullseye on more than one person and its unmistakable

Not having a tick problem here in Alaska but thinking about returning down tn way. Does wearing baselayers like compression under armpit limit the ticks at all?

Shifty is absolutely right about the seed ticks in central Tenn. I got into them at Land Between the Lakes. I was new in the area at the time and had never heard of seed ticks. Like to have driven me crazy. Just looked like my feet and legs were covered in grass seed until I saw they were moving! Most miserable pests I have ever experienced.

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