TICKS !

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 10:51:59 AM

Gonna be a bad year up here for them buggers. I bet I had 5 on me this morning and it really hasnt been above 50 degree yet. I cant believe they're out already

pitw · March 14, 2010, 10:58:22 AM

Quote from: Silencer on March 14, 2010, 10:51:59 AM
Gonna be a bad year up here for them buggers. I bet I had 5 on me this morning and it really hasnt been above 50 degree yet. I cant believe they're out already

What do they look like Vic

. Don't got them here and I'd like to know if I ever come down that way in the summer time.

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 11:03:37 AM

Here's a pic of a deer tick I pulled off the internet. There's a few differ kinds out there.

pitw · March 14, 2010, 11:06:47 AM

Little buggers eh. How do they cause so much discomfort?

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 11:09:54 AM

when they bite ya they drill in, stick and swell up, unless they're carrying lyme disease you can remove them and all will be ok. When you remove them you must get the head and all out.

bambam · March 14, 2010, 11:13:33 AM

Quote from: pitw on March 14, 2010, 11:06:47 AM
Little buggers eh. How do they cause so much discomfort?

Actually they don't cause any discomfort when they bite - I've had them embedded in me and didn't even know it. You can get some nasty diseases from them though.

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 11:14:59 AM

Here's a some more info that explains better than this small town country boy can lol.

more about ticks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick

the dreaded disease they can carry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

FinsnFur · March 14, 2010, 11:16:08 AM

They DONT cause much discomfort at all, thats the problem, and you dont know they are there until it gets infected.
Some carry lymes disease and other deadly diseases.

Removing them can suck cause the bury their heads in and when you try to pull them off the head can break off and stay in you.

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 11:16:46 AM

QuoteActually they don't cause any discomfort when they bite - I've had them embedded in me and didn't even know it

true that, I've had 3 in my lifetime. I belive when they bite they're spit is a local anesthesia ( spelling ) and sorta numbs the bite area until they've been there a couple days lol.

pitw · March 14, 2010, 11:17:54 AM

Quote from: Silencer on March 14, 2010, 11:09:54 AM
when they bite ya they drill in, stick and swell up, unless they're carrying lyme disease you can remove them and all will be ok. When you remove them you must get the head and all out.

Well you just did what all your FnCountries tourist sites couldn't do.

Those pics will keep me out of there during the warm months

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Tikaani · March 14, 2010, 11:34:12 AM

I hated them damn things when I was stationed in Georgia, them and chiggers, I don't know which was worse. Oh yea and snakes too.

John

KySongDog · March 14, 2010, 02:21:19 PM

Go to the LBL in the spring-summertime. Walk around in the weeds and see if you don't end up with about a bazillion of those nymph stage lone star ticks. They will EAT you alive. Itch like nothing you've ever experienced and take weeks to heal the sores you dig in your skin while scratching.

Been there, done that. A buddy of mine had to go to the emergency room at the hospital.

Left to right.... nymph, female, male

BigB · March 14, 2010, 02:48:11 PM

I get em bad on me too during the springtime while out fixing fence and chasing turkeys. The best thing that I have ever found that works on them is Sawyer's Premium Insect Repellant.

Spray your clothes with this stuff the night before you go outside. I usually won't reapply unless I run the clothes through the wash. I haven't pulled a tick off of me the past 2 turkey seasons.

Brian

HaMeR · March 14, 2010, 02:59:21 PM

I hate them little sumanabeeches too.

I use a spray called No Stinking Ticks. It has a blue label & I've only found it at Gander Mountain. I recommend that spray as highly as Brian recommends the Sawyer spray.

Silencer · March 14, 2010, 03:01:59 PM

I gotta pic up somethin, I still got the creeps.. you know the feeling of something on ya when there isnt.

GunDog · March 14, 2010, 07:12:42 PM

QuoteI hated them damn things when I was stationed in Georgia, them and chiggers, I don't know which was worse. Oh yea and snakes too.

John

LMAO @ John

JOHN - them (noseeums) chiggers are definitely worse

pitw · March 14, 2010, 07:29:10 PM

Quote from: GunDog on March 14, 2010, 07:12:42 PM
QuoteI hated them damn things when I was stationed in Georgia, them and chiggers, I don't know which was worse. Oh yea and snakes too.

John

LMAO @ John

JOHN - them (noseeums) chiggers are definitely worse

Thanks for the kinda/sorta info on chiggers GunDog

I was going to ask but was just a mite afraid too

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Bills Custom Calls · March 14, 2010, 07:34:58 PM

I seen a tick here on Christmas day I thought those darn things went dormant in the winter time

iahntr · March 14, 2010, 09:09:47 PM

I'll second what Brian said about the Sawyers.
Used it down in Texas where the chiggers were bad,
never had a one on me. I'm gonna have it on my clothes
this spring for turkeys, and early bow season.

slagmaker · March 14, 2010, 11:04:18 PM

A tick has a very unique ability. It can stay dromant for years on end and then when it senses a warm bodied creature under it it willl drop onto it and go to the warmest spot it can find.

I was working on a fence row in the middle of Febuary and felt someting on my neck. When I went in and took off my coat I had better than a dozen of them little bastards on my back, neck and head. It was just above freezing that day.