From: Dry Bones
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Date: 03-Apr-22 |
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I know we have a zillion threads, but as you all head off to the turkey woods be mindful and check yourselves regular. I found 4 of the little blood suckers on me today while clearing some brush off my archery lane. Fortunately I have read that the sooner yu find and remove them the less likely you are to getting any of the many diseases/virus they can transmit. Be safe everybody.
-Bones
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 03-Apr-22 |
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They've been active here now for several weeks.
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From: Woods Walker
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Date: 03-Apr-22 |
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They're ALWAYS here, it's just that they're waking up now!
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From: Sawtooth (Original)
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Date: 03-Apr-22 |
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Drink a shot of apple cider vinegar every night. It tastes bad, but it will keep them off of you.
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From: Foggy Mountain
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Woods walker is correct. Even in winter, if it warms they’ll be active.
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From: hawkeye in PA
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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They're claiming that the black legged tick can infect you in fifteen minutes now and has over eighty percent infection rate in some area's of Pennsylvania. The infection is not Lyme disease but still very serious.
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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My cats have had ticks on them all winter. Pull em off more appear. Here they are active even in the cold months. I think it’s due to the global warming
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From: Briar
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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I spend a stupid amount of my free time in the woods. I use peremethin on my outerwear once a year. I generally wear frogleg boots and briar gear.
Ive never had a tick on me that im aware of. I put a seresto collar on the dog and she is clean also and she hunts in some real garbage. Maybe im just lucky.
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From: hawkeye in PA
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Briar, I wish I could make those claims. Certain areas around me you could have a hundred ticks on you in a hundred yards. Move a couple hundred yards and not see a tick all day. The dog and I can pick them up in the mowed yard off the bushes. My last dog got ticks and lyme disease with the collar. My new dog has the shot and takes pills, so far so good.
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From: 4nolz@work
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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I miss ryman cat and his tick theories from plum island
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From: Wudstix
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Good to hear about the apple cider vinegar, I drink a shot in a glass of water every day.
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From: Verdeburl
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Spray Sawyers on all your clothes for outdoors. I know--this is like beating a dead horse because many get sick of hearing about tick borne illness. Fir anyone who is, or has battled tick borne illness it's no joke, and it's not a bunch of conspiracy theory garbage. The Sawyers repellant contains ingredients that repels, and kills ticks. I personally take ticks very seriously because I have seen several folks who suffer greatly from tick borne illness, and many insurance companies battle pretty hard due to the long term effects, and trouble diagnosing these diseases. The best way is preventing it in the first place. As to the apple cider vinegar- -I'll do some research on that.
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From: RustyJames
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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I'll chime in on this thread to say that, yes, you should take tick bites very seriously. As I've said in prior discussions on this topic the consequences of contracting Lyme disease and/or the many other nasty diseases they carry can be quite life changing and are not to be taken lightly. Other than "check check check" after a trip to the woods (or the backyard.....or even the beach) one piece of advice I would give is to find out if your local county health department offer testing for ticks that you've pulled off yourself. Many do, and the cost is quite reasonable ($18 here in Northern California). You simply have to put the removed tick in a clean jar or ziplock bag with a moist (water) cotton bud or paper towel and take it to the health Dept office. They test it for Lyme and call with the results in a couple of days. It's a small price to pay for piece of mind, IMHO.
There, that's my public service announcement for the day. Now, back to regularly scheduled programming........
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From: gluetrap
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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ive seen ticks walking on ice covered stumps in ohio gun season.
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From: Briar
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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I make my own mix. I buy concentrate of 10% and use 6.6 oz in a gallon minus the 6.6oz. I bought a small amout this time and 8oz of concentrate was $11. I know out east they are way worse than in western pa
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From: Catskills
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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I spent a lot of time crawling around in the woods sneaking up on brook trout, as well as walking through the woods while hunting etc. I never had a tick or even thought about them until about five years ago. Now I remove a lot of them every year. Not sure if Babysaph was kidding about global warming but I think there's something to it. And I take ticks very seriously, that's not bs about the long-term health effects.
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From: Bassmaster
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Ticks are pricks. Period. My son still has recurring bouts from limes disease.
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From: White Falcon
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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To easily remove them. I use this when I get a tick, and I use it on our cat.
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From: timex
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Never had Lyme disease but got rmsf in 2000 & it put me in bed sweating & shivering at the same time for 4 days straight.
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From: cut it out
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Have had them on me a bunch but never in me. I always look myself over every now and then when out and usually catch them crawling up my legs and so been lucky not to have one bite me yet. The dog is another story though
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From: Bob Rowlands
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Nasty little bastids they are. I find arachnid family on the whole is particularly disgusting. Yeah I know they are necessary part of ecosystem but eff em all.
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From: Ranger Joe
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Ain`t nothing good about ticks, chiggers, or leaches!... I think the ecosystem would do just fine without them little S.O.Bs
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From: wooddamon1
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Time to treat the turkey duds with Sawyer's.
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From: Bassmaster
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Date: 04-Apr-22 |
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Like chicken man Wayne.
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From: vikingbear
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Date: 06-Apr-22 |
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I consider my in laws to be tics. They make me feel sic all the time
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From: babysaph
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Date: 06-Apr-22 |
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hahahaha Viking. I hear ya. I don't like to kill ticks. Or rattlesnakes. LOL
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From: Al Dente Laptop
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Date: 09-Apr-22 |
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Ticks here in the US can carry and transmit 16 different diseases, not just Lyme. This includes Ehrlichiosis, which will make you allergic to meat.
My base layer is Rhino Skin, it is a pantyhose type material with very tight elastic cuffs at the ankles, waist, and wrists. It was developed from the Special Forces, as those guys realized that ticks and leeches could not attach themselves to their body due to the lightly woven material.
I also spray down everything except my underwear with Permithrin. There is a service provided by Insect Shield that you can send your clothes to them and they will professionally treat them, and guarantee them for 20 washings.
Ticks can survive through the harshest of climates, even without a host. An article came out that female ticks survived 27 years in a Binghamton, NY lab, without a host for 8 years, and then one actually laid eggs once a host was reintroduced, and this was 7 years after the last male died. The female was able to store sperm to fertilize her eggs once conditions improved.
I know first hand, as a deer I killed was loaded, looked like the deer was covered in olive green coffee beans. After a very hasty gut job, the majority dropped off, once the body cooled, I went back and cut off the skull plate. Some were still on, so I placed it into a plastic bag with about an inch of chlorine bleach, closed the bag and sealed in with duct tape. A few YEARS later, I found it in my garage, 11 of the ticks were still alive!!!!
Do not dismiss them, they are THE only thing that I fear in the woods.
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From: David McLendon
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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We have a lot of Lone Star ticks in NC now and Alpha-Gal is becoming more common. If you don't know what Alpha-Gal is then Google it, because you don't want it. Ticks Suck...
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From: bodymanbowyer
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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During our cleanup of our archery range,a guy noticed one crawling on my shoulder. Turns out it was the only one on me. Generally, we don't have them around here. Of course I felt like something was crawling on me all afternoon till I got home and took a shower. Didn't find any more. That was good JF
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From: Bill Rickvalsky
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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My son lives in the Nashville, TN, area. He contracted Alpha-Gal. It is definitely not something I would want to deal with. I find it to be sort of hard to understand but the consequences are very annoying to say the least.
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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My cats had em all winter even with snow on the ground
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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Ticks - they suck!
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From: Runner
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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Can you avoid Lyme disease by just not believing the Science?
Surely this is all a big Pharma plot to make money.
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From: sir misalots
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Date: 11-May-22 |
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My wife got Aplha gal last year. Its not fun. Not ate red meat in over a year. Fish and foul. Ate Ostrich last night. Very good and a lot like beef but $20 a pound. As mentioned check yourself every day. These little boogers seem to me more aggressive in biting and burrowing in you.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 12-May-22 |
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No Runner, you can't avoid Lyme disease by not believing the science. But you can't always be cured of it with 'science' either when medical professionals, big pharma, associated government agencies, insurance companies and such don't make responsible use of it due to ignorance, agenda, corruption, conflicts of interest, etc and instead ignore it or cherry pick it to suit themselves. They cause much unnecessary suffering and sometimes death by insisting we believe and abide by their compromised versions of 'science'. Look at Covid as another prime example. And unfortunately most people believe them because they're naive, lazy, and put too much faith it and them.
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From: Runner
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Date: 12-May-22 |
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Ah, so you just gotta follow the right Science. ;)
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 12-May-22 |
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Yep. Simple as that.
Unfortunately simple doesn't mean easy.
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