This sounds pretty full on. Ive only found one tick this year so far. Tick-mageddon on Mantario Trail overwhelms experienced hikers
Nope. Hate 'em. I've found 3 on me, and several on Casper this year. Neither of the other two dogs. Wife found one. Found one on Casper's rear leg yesterday tucked in between his stomach and leg, and thought it got him. When I grabbed it, it was dead. The Seresto collar works.
Probably for those of you who had a mild winter will see more of them this year. The west has seen a particularly harsh winter so maybe they wont be so bad for us. My second day out cutting this year was when I found my first guy of the season. I got back in the truck and felt something crawling across the back of my neck and sure enough it was a tick.
I keep hearing that this year is supposed to be bad for ticks in our area, but 2-4 years ago was the worst for us hands down. The dogs are treated and I've area sprayed various things with permethrin, but even still, the numbers just aren't showing like normal. Even though the dogs are treated, they hitch a ride in before dropping off and dying (typical year), but we've only found 2 ticks this year on the floor, and one on the dog.
Thank God we have few of them. I actually saw the first tick I'd ever saw in this area just a few years ago. Found 2 last year; so far none this year. Maybe the skeeters will eat all of them....
Back in the 80's, I was hiking in the early trout season through some brush and ended up with 7 on me in one shot!
Same here, took my lab for good run in the bush and only found 4. 4 or 5 years ago I would pull 40-60 a day off him. Mosquitoes on the other hand - had to weigh down the kids so they won't get taken away!
Found 4 while working on the exterior outlets today. They are so bad here I just blew off 4 gallons of insecticide. Backwoods Savage Bentley got 1 at your place this year.
After the initial few, I haven't seen any on the dogs or me in the last few days, and they go out several times/day. Short grass, tall grass, woods, ditch.......nuthin. I'm prolly speakin' too soon....................
