errr ticks!

[nightshade]

okay so I got the joy of pulling two ticks off myself when I got home from working on the new farm tonight.This is the third time in the past few months. This does not include the ones found on our animals, even the ones with the anti tick meds on. The ones the I have pulled off hubby when he has come home from huntin'. This is nuts. Is it just me or are they really bad this year?

 

[Beekissed]

Every time we have a really wet spring, it seems the ticks are especially bad. Poor ticks, he must be going crazy!

I have already pulled several off my big tomcat and one of my boys who do not go out much has had two crawling on him...must have come from cuddling kitties. One of the ticks I pulled off the cat was a deer tick, so be careful out there folks.

We search the dogs, cats and ourselves every day and the dogs have tick and flea collars newly applied. I think this will be a bad year for fleas also, as I actually saw some on my tomcat, which I rarely ever do. Needless to say, he got a good flea powder dusting, as did the younger tom.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I am thankful that where we are living now, I have not pulled a tick off my dogs or cats, and I have never had one on me. My kids and hubby have only had some on the from hunting in an area that is not near here. I wonder why they are not in this area? (although I am not complaining)

 

[big brown horse]

Yuck. I have always hated ticks (no offence ticks). How do you tell the difference between deer ticks and the others? Does anyone from N. W. Washington know if we get ticks here?

 

[sufficientforme]

Yuck. I have always hated ticks (no offence ticks). How do you tell the difference between deer ticks and the others? Does anyone from N. W. Washington know if we get ticks here?

I grew up by Olympia and never had a tick in my 25 years there, as kids we played in the deep woods everyday. But yes, they do have them but not nearly as many as other places.

 

[freemotion]

I am thankful that where we are living now, I have not pulled a tick off my dogs or cats, and I have never had one on me. My kids and hubby have only had some on the from hunting in an area that is not near here. I wonder why they are not in this area? (although I am not complaining)

When I lived in Northern Maine, we did not have ticks. When I moved away in '93, they were just starting to show up on the rare occasion. Global warming, I suspect, or adaptation. They don't survive extreme cold very well. But if there is a good insulating blanket of snow, they can survive a harsher winter.

Count your blessings. I live an hour or so away from Lyme, CT, where Lyme disease was first discovered.

 

[dacjohns]

This is for Illinois ticks. There are also other types of ticks in North America. The larva and nymph stages are hard to identify because they are so small.

http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/tickkey.htm

 

[nightshade]

what really makes me mad about it is that I grew up spending 90% of the daylight hours playing in the swamp and woods around our house and the neighbors farm. Most of that time never wearing shoes. I didn't even where shoes in my wedding. And I have never had a on me in my life til this year!

 

[Home Maker]

They are bad this year, but of course I live in the woods.

DH and I and the dogs have all had them.

I'd get some guinea hens if the predators here wouldn't kill them. They're supposedly the best tick prevention around.

 

[freemotion]

They are great at eating bugs and work hard at it all day long......at the neighbor's house! They come home when they see me, though, and beg for a handful of sunflower seeds...