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While working in the woods. How do you keep the ticks away?

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  1. firecracker_77

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    I believe in Plum Island.
     
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    I watched a tick walk through the Permethrin mixture I made last year, for several minutes before it croaked.
    But, it did croak.
    Then, just to be sure, I crushed it with extreme prejudice.:thumbs:
     
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    I addition to Lymes there is another disease recently identified, and basicly mimics or hides under the lymes. Sorry, I do not remember the name . I do remember that a lymes test will not show this one up.
     
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    Plum Island exists, and so does the CDC on it! The question/conspiracy theory is that they developed Lyme, and accidentally released it to public. Is that what you believe?
     
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    I believe that truth is stranger than fiction. Nothing is impossible to me.
     
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    I'm not sure what the motive would be to release it to the public. I believe that LSD was a mind control experiment that leaked it's way out to the public.
     
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  7. Machria

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    By accident, not purpose. AKA, an animal got away... gave to a bird, bird flew to CT or LI, infected tic jumped on a deer....

    Especially when we have a Jumbo jet disappearing! ;)
     
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    I got Lymes disease in of all places, East Lyme, Connecticut. I was an instructor at the USCG Academy and lived there. The disease originated from Lyme, Connecticut is where the first case was reported. I got it back in 2010 and it's absolutley "horrible" if you get it. :eek: I was bitten on the back side of my arm up near my shoulder, I didn't notice it right away and thought it was a bruse when I did. About three days later, I woke with a tremendous 103* fever and thought I was coming down with the flu, my body ached "SEVERLY" and my joints were very painfull. I tryed to sleep it off and the next morning I wound up in the hospital, with a fever of 103.7* and severly dehydrated, It dam near killed me. If you even "THINK" you see a bullseye on your body, go get it checked out:bug: You will know when you see it, I never saw the tick that bit me, it was long gone but it's the very small deer tick that has the disease. My body will never be the same from that bug!
     
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    Thanks for the info Dave. Priority on my firewood logs & CSS in the winter just got kicked up a few more notches. We have wood ticks, but have not heard of many deer tick & Lyme cases, but I know it happens. Just dam… and from a tiny little bug. Now I'm REALLY gonna take a "shower" in Deep Woods with Deet this season.
     
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    I'm pretty fortunate that there aren't ticks in my immediate area. Probably because I'm in orchard country and they spray God knows what around here like it's going out of style.

    I load up on the deep woods Off when going out in the woods. It must work as I have never yet found a tick on my nor a bite I couldn't explain.

    Maybe run an old saw with a 20:1 mix and fog the woods? :)
     
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    That's what the docs told me. I had other typical symptoms after that point as well. Joint pain, lack of energy, etc.

    This from Wikipedia, I have seen similar info elsewhere:

    Lyme was confirmed via multiple sets of bloodwork.
     
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    Well the deer tick has wreaked havoc on my family as well. My youngest son has had SEVERAL of them burrowed into his skin, last spring my daughter contracted Lyme's from a deer tick (month of antibiotics and she completely recovered as we caught it right away), and last fall my wife had one on her collarbone that was, as has been mentioned, so small you could barely see it. She, too, had to go on the antibiotic regimen.

    Deer ticks are actually named from the deer mouse, which is where "they" claim the Lyme's comes from......what amazes me is how this so - called disease doesn't affect deer, birds, and other animals like it does dogs, cats and humans.

    Two years ago in deer season I was COVERED in them, just from walking in the woods. Literally over a HUNDRED of them on me..........but, I had permethrin (Sawyer spray) on my outer garments and they ALL fell off dead after several minutes of walking on the treated clothing. Permethrin DOES work........nothing else I've tried works.
     
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    "Literally over a HUNDRED of them on me"…:hair: OK… I need a drink…:drunk:
     
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    Literally over a HUNDRED of them on me..........[​IMG]
     
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    Yes, fellas......no lie. We have some areas that are so infested with them it literally makes you squeamish. .....
     
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    Scotty, Are they all deer ticks, wood ticks or both?
     
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    Yeah, there's no such thing as a "deer tick".
    It's a blackleg tick. ( probably has different names locally, but who rattles off latin genus names ? )
    and the white footed mouse ( principal host ) , chipmunks and a few other small mammals are the carrier/hosts of Lyme, not deer.

    The ticks will go for a ride on a deer and via deer runs move the Lyme bacteria from one area to the other, which is how Lyme is spreading ( probably coyote and fox and who knows what else, too ) being super abundant in some areas.

    You can have no deer and still have Lyme disease as long as there is a small area for the mouse and ticks to live in.

    If I'm going to be in the woods ( and I can't go out in my yard any further than the mailbox and be in the woods ):
    Starting around now I spray my shoes, socks and pants ( heavily ) and elbows/arms with permethrin every day, sometimes twice. My clothes, not necessarily my skin. Permethrin supposedly lasts for days and even maybe through a wash . I'm not trusting it.
     
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    They are all deer ticks. Some so small you can barely see 'em (the males are much smaller than the females).
     
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    You got me looking up Sawyer's Permethrin spray early this morning. Guess we should be able to find it at Walmart's and other stores here. Gonna pick up 2-3 bottles of it to start and replace all of the other varieties of sprays we've got… All I've ever looked for is a spray that actually deals with the ticks and stays on the clothes long enough to do some good. Thanks for the info. Looks as tho Sawyer's is it.
     
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    Thanks... I have to pass that on to my brother.... never herd that before and also saw some of those references after your post. But they never say specifically BP, they just say some "facial paralysis"...
    Many/most mammals carry Lyme, including Deer. The white mouse is just one of the most prevalent carriers. On LI, White tailed Deer are the most prevalent carriers spreading it to Deer ticks which give it to humans.
     
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