Wood Ticks

[BearGuide]

I was GPS'ing Bait Stations last sunday in northern MN and the ticks are aweful.
I pulled 30 or more from just one trail.  At one time I just set my foot out of my truck and had five on my shoe.

I thought the people heading out 4 wheeling might like to prepare for them.

The deer look to be covered in them as well of the 3 I saw.

[rchaze60]

yeah i bet with all the warm weather we are having and not that cold of a winter...... and they are only going to get worse

[Crazy4Outdoors]

A friend just sent me an email the other day on a better/easier way to remove ticks.  We haven't had a "chance" to use this method yet, but I thouhgt I'd share it with you in case it does work:
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
Hope it works; sounds a little easier than using a tweezers.

[Mayfly]

Everytime I step out my front door I find a tick on me! Those suckers are everywhere!!! I actually found one dug into my leg the other day. I remember when I was a kid I would always find buried ticks, seems rare now. I guess I catch them too early now and when we were kids we were just running wild.

[holdemtwice]

yup they are getting bad here in burnsville as well .  pulled one out of  my youngests  head the other day . i need to get some poison out . and soon 

  HT

[Grute Man]

I was up in Marcell (north of Grand Rapids MN) on May 19 and 20.  We ventured out for a while and the one guy had 10 on him.  I found 3 or 4 and so did Hockey #12.  A couple of them were deer ticks.  The guy with a bunch on him was just standing/sitting around with us while me and Hockey #12 were busy doin stuff.  Seemed obvious to me; could be wrong though.

My daughter had her first encounter with one and we thought she was being attacked by Big Foot the way she was screemin    Kids hey?

Well wear your bug repelant and don't sit still.  That's my take on it.
Grute Man

[BearGuide]

Check your skin: Shown from left to right are a wood tick, a female deer tick and a nymph of a deer tick. Wood ticks don?t carry Lyme disease. Deer tick nymphs are about the size of a poppy seed.

[Catwoman]

I am up by Isle, in deep woods, and ticks are bad, ya.  I usually can feel them right away and get them off me.. have a welt for a week and then just itchy. 

Now, This is more of a girl thing I guess, but I have found something that works near as good as deet for ticks.  I don't have time and I think it's dangerous to skin to bake in the sun and get a suntan, so I use self tanners, specifically, Banana Boat Summer Color or Neutragena spray.  The ticks HATE this stuff, and granted it doesn't smell the greatest to me either, but it works double duty.  I just apply deet around my pantlegs, wrists and neck ... clothing entry points for ticks.

The thing I can't prevent with ticks, and this is another girl thing, is, they hitchhike on my pigtails or hair if it's down, and later find there way to other places.  My hair is too thick for them to find a spot on my head...have never had a tick there.  But I've lost count of the number of times I have been driving home and suddenly at 75 mph on the hiway, a tick leaps off my hair and on me and I'm sure other drivers think I'm a drunk driver as I try to get the thing off me and out the window.

I'm not sure what I would rather have tho... ticks, or the next invasion, flies.  The deer and horse flies here seem impervious to bug repellents and when they mature in July, they bite like bullets.  And of course there are the ever present mosquitoes.

Bring on the first frost, I say.  :-)

CW