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 :argh:
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 :argh:
What do they look like Vic :shrug:. Don't got them here and I'd like to know if I ever come down that way in the summer time.
Here's a pic of a deer tick I pulled off the internet. There's a few differ kinds out there.
(http://aureliababy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/deertickfemale8001.jpg?w=500&h=365)
Little buggers eh. How do they cause so much discomfort?
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.
(http://tickattackmv.com/images/Skin%20Reactions%20to%20Tick%20Bites.jpg)
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. :argh: :argh:
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
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.
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.
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.
(http://tickattackmv.com/images/Skin%20Reactions%20to%20Tick%20Bites.jpg)
Well you just did what all your FnCountries tourist sites couldn't do. :yoyo: Those pics will keep me out of there during the warm months :puke:.
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
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
(http://www.tickinfo.com/images/LoneStarCoin.jpg)
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.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417lunkgKjL._SS500_.jpg)
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. :yoyo:
Brian
I hate them little sumanabeeches too. :pout: 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. :yoyo: :yoyo:
I gotta pic up somethin, I still got the creeps.. you know the feeling of something on ya when there isnt.
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
:alscalls: LMAO @ John :alscalls:
JOHN - them (noseeums) chiggers are definitely worse :eyebrownod:
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
:alscalls: LMAO @ John :alscalls:
JOHN - them (noseeums) chiggers are definitely worse :eyebrownod:
Thanks for the kinda/sorta info on chiggers GunDog :bowingsmilie: I was going to ask but was just a mite afraid too :whew:.
I seen a tick here on Christmas day I thought those darn things went dormant in the winter time
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.
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.
I generally don't see them until it warms up a tad here. But when I do see 'em its mostly too late. I ma digging one or two out of my person.
As for which is worse, it's a toss up. I get more chiggers at one time but it seems to me the tick bites itch for days rather than just one or two days for hte chiggers. You don't feel chiggers , but you do ticks, and I have the creepy crawlies all dang day long whether I see another or not. Crap, just thinking about it has gone to work on me :shock2: :sad3: Jimmie
QuoteCrap, just thinking about it has gone to work on me Jimmie
Jimmie I'm the same way here buddy. The first time I read this post I could feel them ticks crawling all over me too ... :eyebrownod:
Always makes me think twice about turkey hunting I can tell you that. Snakes are no big deal. But looking down at my pants and seeing them moving while sitting perfectly still is a big nono. Jimmie
Any of the sprays that contain Permethrin will keep the ticks off There are several different brands, but these sprays are for clothing only they will turn your skin all red and irritate it. Permethrin is the ingredient that repels and kills ticks in all the better sprays like sawyers and cutter. Just make sure it has Permethrin, it is much better that deet and one application lasts for weeks, and most are unscented. Day before I will be hunting in warmer months I will hang all my gear, clothes, hats, and boots up spray the crap out of everything. I have had good luck this way. Semps pic of the small tick lower left on the quarter is what we call seed ticks here, at LBL these are a big problem if you get one you will get hundreds. In the spring the turkeys are covered in them for they stay lower to the ground in the tall grasses and bushes, packing a turkey out becomes a challenge.
Sometimes ticks could be a good thing
http://new.music.yahoo.com/brad-paisley/videos/view/ticks--44687782
my son was infested once with chiggers fishin at my great garandads old place.
he felt them in a bad way cause they ended up in his groin area. they irched him like crazy and welted up.
yuck,lol.