Ticks?

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groomerdriver

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How the tick population where you are? Where I am in the Rice Lake, WI area they are thick and numerous, and the deer ticks are HUGE! Hard to go outside and not come back in not having one or two on you. I check myself, the kids and the dog all the time and the other night while lying in bed I felt one crawling up my leg! THAT was nasty!
 
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jr37

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Do ticks have a natural predator. Who eats them? Turkeys, birds, snakes, rabbits, etc.?
 
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ezra

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at my cabin in Longville MN the Dear ticks are bad have been for yrs. the neighbors have all lost dogs few guys got lyme disease. I got the bulls eye a few yrs back and went right to doctor and they started me on the steroids and I did not get it.My wife wont let the dogs run she will only walk them on a leash down the road
 
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maddogg

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They are even bad down here in Hartford, WI. Went out turkey hunting and pulled 4 of them off me. I hate them.
 
LoveMyDobe

LoveMyDobe

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Yep, we have had ticks here for 2 months.Finding alot of dead ones on the carpet, thanks to Frontline. We have 7 chickens, yes they eat ticks but with 10 acres of wooded land they can't keep up! Thinking of having them ride on our shoulder to pick them off us and the dogs -- NOT!!!
 
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racerx

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Was out the other last Sunday doing some geocaching and we really did not go in the woods instead they are what we call "pocket woods" very small sections in the urban areas and even there I picked up 3 in fifteen minutes and at another place just along a roadside guardrail I picked up 2 in minutes and the moast I went off the road was 2ft. So even staying close to the road does not help much.
 
misty_pines

misty_pines

Member
The ticks are out in force, that is for sure. I did some work in the woods in NW Wisconsin a bit over a week ago and the ticks were out. I would say they are about as bad as any other year, which for NW WI means pretty bad. The deer ticks were mixed in with the regular wood ticks. The bummer is, the deer ticks (which some carry Lyme Disease) are the small ones and harder to see and find. Those big wood ticks which don't seem to hurt you, just annnoying, are much more easy to find. They usually slow down mid summer, then pick back up again in the Fall and are around until the first snow cover. Not sure what is worse, the deer flies, the mosquitos or the ticks.
 
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ezra

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dont know if it worked but when I was a kid my grandpa would always put tick collars around my and his pants legs when we went out in the woods or hunting in the tall grass.
I may have to give it a try again that deer tick situation I got a few yrs back did put a damper on my activity at the cabin
 
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lenny

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lot O ticks in da UP also, I pick them off me whenever I am in the grass
 
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booondocker

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Tie your pantlegs with a shoe lace. Then spray with deep woods off. Wear light color clothing rather than dark stuff, and be sure to take as much off after being out in dah woods as you can and shower each night looking for any that got by all the protection. There are more things to worry about besides just lymes disease....so take the proper precautions.

This is war...and should be taken seriously.
 
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racerx

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booondocker said:
Tie your pantlegs with a shoe lace. Then spray with deep woods off. Wear light color clothing rather than dark stuff, and be sure to take as much off after being out in dah woods as you can and shower each night looking for any that got by all the protection. There are more things to worry about besides just lymes disease....so take the proper precautions.

This is war...and should be taken seriously.
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I have started to use permethrin...
 
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yamahauler

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I was up at my parents this past weekend in Spooner, WI and hiked through the woods. Holy batman, the ticks are crazy.

I sat for 30 minutes picking them off the dog. I am not joking, there had to be at least 30+ ticks of all different sizes on her.
Between three people, we had about 10 total.

Even when I think I had the last one, all of a sudden I would see one 5 minutes latter on her. I have never seen that many ticks
at one sitting in my life.

Ticks, skeeters, bugs, would be another reason I love winter.
 
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Cat Woman

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Thats crazy you bring it up. In the 20 years we've lived on the farm here in northern IL we have never, not once seen a tick. Monday I was painting fence (in the mowed lawn mind you) and found a dog tick on me. Creeps me out! We don't even have woods very close, it's all farm fields down here.
 
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