Be Careful! Tick Season is Here!

It's apparently time to take the proper precautions. I had an itch on the back of my left leg. Throgh my jeans I could feel a small bump. With closer inspection I was surprised to find a dear tick embedded half way down his body! I thought I'd have to get the doc to remove it but with a precision strike, I managed to get it out all in one piece. I'll have to watch it for a while to see nothing bad happens.

Early for here, Northern Kentucky, quite early. So get you favorite tick repellent supply ready, they're back!

 

Your body should expel it naturally but sometimes things like this get infected. Then you gotta deal with that.

 

Yeah I was crawling al over the woods this weekend and disturbing lots of leaf litter. Miraculously no ticks, I did realize after the fact that I should have sprayed.

 

Yep, they're out. I was hoping with the frigid winter we had here in the NE that they wouldn't show their ugly faces until later this spring but I pulled one off of me last week.

 

Is there a go-to spray people like for work clothes?

 

Must work fairly quick because I've only found a dead tick on me when wearing the clothes that have been treated.
I've only soaked my in-the-woods shoes and pants. Has been enough and the ticks are pretty bad here.
The old instructions had ya add it to water in a 5 gallon bucket and soak the items. This last bottle came with a pump spray and just hang up the items and spray/soak them until they are damp.
Just spraying the outer surfaces not quite to the point that it starts running off has worked for me.

Dunno about mosquitoes, I only use it for ticks. From what I've read it's not wise to spray it on your body, so I don't. But I only use it for ticks.

 

Permethen should keep away any bug that comes in contact with treated clothing. Skeeters should stay away from any bodypart covered by clothing too. They may still try to get at any exposed skin.

 

We never used to get them up here, but the last few years they have been creeping in, nasty little buggers.

I make birch tar oil from birch bark off trees I process, so a few rags with that on it and tied in the right places does pretty good.

 

When we first came to Kentucky, some 35 years ago, there were only a couple of types of ticks that were commonly found around us. Now you better be able to access a tick database to identify the many different types and the diseases that they cause.

 

East Central Ohio I was helping clear some dead standing at my cousins farm and we both had ticks on us. It was only 45* today didn't think it was warm enough for them

 

We had 55 degrees here in Iowa today and I saw a mosquito. Was very surprised.

 

They wont get ticked off?

 

If you cover bodies in Vaseline they back out for air. Might only be certain types of ticks

 

Thank you, found an earlier post that sounds like people trust permethrin as well. Leaving this here as a basic guideline that makes sense to me. If there are any additional ideas please chime in.

 

Sawyers or Ranger Ready are both very good. Ranger has one for clothing and one skin safe. It's my got to when I am on Chigger Ridge

 

Anyone else getting itchy just reading this?

 

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