Ticks Are Really Bad This Year

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  1. Thomas Windom

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    Yeah, I’ve been putting off some yard work. I have DEET from Amazon arriving today.
     
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    Sorry you are having trouble, @Marie Mallery. I hope you find a remedy for all the bugs and stuff.
     
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    Thank you Don, I sprayed the Adams on my clothes, and they will be my walking and clearing clothes only. So I'll be 'dressed to kill' tics chiggers that is. Taking so many days off I get winded faster.
     
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    Let me know how it works. Thomas do you live in the south?
     
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    I’ve used it several times before but I’m almost out. I started using it heavily after I had deer ticks on me 2 different times. I hate them because they’re so hard to see. So far, it seems to be keeping them off. I wear long clothes and spray the cuffs, waist, wrists, neck, etc, pretty thoroughly. Then garments go straight into the laundry room and wash. We’re in the mid-Atlantic region. Lots of deer.
     
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    Ok that sounds like another good remedy. I'll just wash my clothes now and then, since this Adams is not cheap. And I'll change soon as I get back to the house.
     
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    I'm testing another tic spray my daughter sent us yesterday, Will see if it works by tomorrow.
    Cedarcide Tickshield.
     
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    Haben't got around to the Deet yet but will soon, I got one from daughter yesterday.
    You know too the dogs will bring the tics in from the yard so we have to watch for that, maybe get them a bug pill from vet, but Molly is too old they make old dogs sick , we found that out with our 1o yr olde Alice 10 years ago.
     
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    You can put permethrin around the leg and sleeve openings. This one will survive a 6 washings or 6 weeks, whichever comes first. My Walmart has it in stock. (edit to add: This one says "mosquitoes," so maybe the strength is not strong enough for ticks.)

    [​IMG]This one from Amazon says "ticks."

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    Thanks John.
     
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    I recall researching the incidence of lyme disease in the state of Virginia. I believe the highest rate is in the recently developed rural counties. Just like deer, ticks love the woods/field interface. You start dividing woods into sections and you make more habitat for both. Then add in the large population, and you got infections, baby.

    The high per-capita counties up north (the Red and Orange counties) are the highly populated burbs of DC.

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    My goodness and we hope for cold weather to limit the insects down here. Fat chance ,huh?
    John did you know that we haven't seen a dlea in years here, as before we had to bath the dogs with Dawn all the times from fleas that kept them scratching. Wonder whats with that?
    Whatever wiped them out can't be good for us.
     
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    I wonder what gives with those counties in white that have little-to-no reported Lyme's disease. Those ones on the southeast tip are very rural and chock-full of hunters. Perhaps they get colder winters than the rest of the state.

    Regarding fleas: maybe your new dogs are not susceptible to them.
     
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    No ,I just thought about it and our old dogs wasn't getting them last several years. What's up with that I wonder. I had not thought of it before but we always had bad to worse flea seasons. Now I want to check the web and see if other states has a change too.
     
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    I took a quick look and found nothing about any flea change in Florida, but 90% of the search results were for pest control businesses. I imagine if there is a change, it's regional.
     
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