ANewCreation
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I am itching just reading this thread! DH pulled two ticks off of him last week after we were in the backyard trimming some vines. We have treated the back and front yards this week and it usually helps. Ticks in VA are always bad but this year they seem to be worse.
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mike4947
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Here's a question maybe someone can answer for me.
How come they make products that either kill or repel fleas & ticks,and some even mosquitos for dogs but they don't have anything for humans?
Being a mosquito & black fly magnet as well as a great tick and flea attractor I would love something I could put on once a month or even weekly.
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pasusan
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pkunk wrote:From the CDC....
How to remove a tick
1. Use fine-tipped tweezers and protect your fingers with a tissue, paper towel, or latex gloves. Avoid removing ticks with your bare hands.
2. Grasp the tick as close to the skin surface as possible and pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don't twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal.
3. After removing the tick, thoroughly disinfect the bite and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water. This is what I found and followed. I have some really fine-tipped tweezers and grabbed at the skin under the tick - didn't want to squeeze the tick and didn't want any head parts left in there. 
srt20 wrote:Haha at reading these posts.
I dont think some of you could handle it in the northwoods of WI. When out in the woods, I get at least 4 ticks per day. Last year I applied tick preventative a little to late to my Black Lab dog. I had to pick 36 ticks off of him. He was only in the woods for 3 hours. Not fun on a black dog. Missed one and it got to the size of 2 corn kernals before I got it. Had another engorged on him this spring about the size of 1 kernal. Ticks are just part of life here.
BTW never had a deer tick stick in the skin yet. Deer ticks are the small ones that carry Lymes. The big wood ticks dont carry Lymes. All the ticks we ran into so far this spring were deer ticks. Little things. When I saw mine I thought it was an especially dark mole till I brushed over it with my fingers.
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I'm really glad this post started and encourage everyone to take it seriously. We were living near Culpeper, VA back in 1995 and pulled off a lot of ticks for a period of time in early summer after walking the dog beneath trees. I missed one that was in my hair, fell out later.
I got sicker than I've ever been for a couple of weeks...ended up in the hospital for a week where they noticed yet another tick on my back, which tipped off a smart doctor who made a guess and diagnosed Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis. (Later confirmed by blood tests sent away to a lab.) Antibiotics knocked it out pretty fast, and luckily it was acute but not chronic like Lyme can be.
I read an article that summer in USA Today that a group of older men who played golf on a course in VA had had tick bites, become ill and some even died, same disease. Other cases also reported that year in the South. My doctor said it was similar to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever without the spots.
Bottom line, if you've pulled some out and start feeling lousy, mention ticks when you see the doctor.
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Pawz4me
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srt20 wrote:I dont think some of you could handle it in the northwoods of WI. When out in the woods, I get at least 4 ticks per day. Last year I applied tick preventative a little to late to my Black Lab dog. I had to pick 36 ticks off of him. He was only in the woods for 3 hours. Not fun on a black dog. Missed one and it got to the size of 2 corn kernals before I got it. Had another engorged on him this spring about the size of 1 kernal. Ticks are just part of life here.
Back in the day before all the spot-on tick stuff like Frontline was available, it was a nightly ritual from spring through fall to de-tick the dogs. We had three, and it was common to pull 20 or 30 ticks off each dog. What fun.
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johnvb
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Went to Belle Isle, Va. last weekend. The wife was out of the truck helping me back into the site and screamed tick...had one crawling on her foot. That night she found one on her leg and removed. After packing up early and coming home due to the threat of rain...or ticks, wife removed 5 more and I removed two.
Never in our RV'n days have we experienced ticks like this.....hope she goes again. I was recommended Sawyer bug lotion/spray for clothing, maybe that will get her back in the woods!
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Boy, we're lucky. Our cat is a "roamer" in/out and is a shelter cat. Had her almost two years and have yet to see the first flea/tick on her. Knock wood. We treat her faithfully with the flea/tick preventative we buy on line from Picard Meds. Did have to get her a rabies booster for the bat she caught. The second one we passed as it was a no go on the second. Apparently, they're not good to eat as she only did half of one. Due to get another rabies in 2013. If it climbs/swims/flies/walks etc, she'll catch it. Fish and frogs included.
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HERE's a neat , cheap little tool to get them off easily.
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We've been blessed with several groups or flocks of little birds, not as tall, as the short white clover, not much bigger than Hummingbirds.
They have been all over the place doing bug patrol apparently. Some are blue some are gray and some are gray with barred on the back.
I saw a couple sitting on the tomato cages. They zipped off catching bugs in flight. last one i saw yesterday had caught a white winged moth and it was sticking out of both sides of his beak when he landed. Nothing is getting within 10 ft of the tomato plants.
I haven't seen this before an am glad. I don't like poison on the lawn. I waded through the grass barefoot yesterday and didn't pick up any bugs. Early last month though we were enundated with ticks til the birds appeared I guess. Now if some would start eating the Mosquitoes that go after my wife.
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sammie2011
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Wind River wrote:Ticks came out early in Wyoming. Be on the look out. Inspect yourself and pets.
Avon sells some TICK repellant - does it work? Or maybe some other brands?
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