Ticks are bad lately..Lets hear your ideas

[Slingshot]

You can pull your socks up over the bottoms of your pants and tuck your shirt in, ala Confederate Infantry style. Dog flea collars put on your body in variuos places to discourage them, ala Vietnam Infantry style. Nothing will totally stop them. Use the buddy system, and check each other every half hour, comb your hair to try and pull any out before they attach on your head. Protect your crotch area, underarms, and watch inside and behind your ears. Take a good bath/shower when you get home, and go ahead and wash all the clothes you were wearing.

 

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[sniffer]

you can use all the deet you want, it won't do much good, that's designed to repel mosquitos.
the best thing I've found is good old fashioned Raid with permethrin. you spray it on your clothes from the waist down. since I've done that I haven't found one on me yet

 

[Frankn]

Thanks Sniffer, I will give that a try. Frank

 

[Monty]

Dang sniff, deet has always worked for me. I guess those darn Kansas ticks are meaner and tougher? My grandkmother use to tie a rag around my ankles soaked with coal oil when we picked blackberries and that seemed to deter chiggers and I don't recall getting any ticks either. I remember once I went dove hunting wearing a pair of levis with the button fly. When I got home, guess where I found 4 ticks? I thought I had some kind of venereal disease until I stripped to take a shower. And you can bet I removed them VERY carefully! Monty

 

[CrazySlasher]

I bought a bottle of Sawyer's Permathine (or whatever it's called) but decided not to use it after someone on the forum informed me it very poisonous to cats. Deet is useless against ticks. I use 98.1% deet and it does nothing. My next step is this: http://www.cabelas.com/lightweight-camo-clothing-sale-cabelas-bug-skinz-8482-bugproof-mock-t-1.shtml Thanks to JW15 for the heads up on these.

 

[johnnyblaze]

I bought a bottle of Sawyer's Permathine (or whatever it's called) but decided not to use it after someone on the forum informed me it very poisonous to cats. Deet is useless against ticks. I use 98.1% deet and it does nothing. My next step is this: http://www.cabelas.com/lightweight-camo-clothing-sale-cabelas-bug-skinz-8482-bugproof-mock-t-1.shtml Thanks to JW15 for the heads up on these.

Wearing that in the heat would be brutal


Blaze

 

[Frankn]

FLEAS, they were everywhere! I bombed the house. Washed the dog with flea shampoo. Washed the sheets and to my surprise, there were live fleas on the washed sheets. They survived the wash. Washed them again using soap, 1/4 cup bleach, and some flea shampoo. It worked. It took 7 flea bombs to do the house and I have to do it again in a week to kill the new hatched eggs before they mate. I think I would rather deal with the ticks ! That Raid flea spray appears to work also. On the east coast, a damp spring means fleas and a dry spring means ticks. Frank

 

[dld]

Permathine works great, spray your cloths the night before and after you wear them put them in a plastic bag and it will be good for a second day

 

[Monty]

We had fleas bad here last summer. I sprayed the yard twice and that got rid of them. I also dipped my dog and sprayed all her bedding real well and after about 2 weeks they were nowhere to be found. I used a spray I bought at a farm store and it worked much better than any of those Hartz or flea collar or grocery store bought things. Monty

 

[hollowpointred]

permethrin is the way to go. it doesnt repel ticks, it actually kills them. someone asked what the military uses to keep ticks off the troops. they use permethrin.

 

[freddy williams]

permethrin is the ticket I have seen a few here Alabama but mostly fleas dang they are killers around here as we have very mild winters everything lives all winter long nothing dies off they just slow down

 

[stilllookin]

To try and prevent getting them is best, but I heard if you find one attached take a cotton swab saturated with dish detergent and cover the tick. In a minute or two the tick will back out and stick to the swab for disposal. I have no idea if this will work and make no claims, but will try it for before the summers over I will probably get at least one tick.

 

[Killer Angel]

Permethrin, permethrin, permethrin. If you want to go into tick infested woods or fields soak your clothes in it and let them dry.

If you want to be tick free stay out of their habitat.

I'm not going into the woods until first frost. Plenty of other places to hunt. Summer is when we all want to hunt, but the snakes, ticks and overgrowth make it less than the ideal season to hunt the woods and fields.

First frost the ground won't be frozen but the snakes and ticks will be down for the season.

Now, poison Ivy, that's another thing altogether. You can get that in the dead of winter from touching a barren ivy twig. What the hell do they look like?

 

[cassrh]

I'm in the field every day - doing things other than detecting. I very seldom have ticks or cheegros, possibly because I wear large dog flea collars around the ankles of my boots, and dust my pants legs with 5% Seven dust. The Seven is kept in a sock for easy dusting. In my area the drought has held the bug population down.

 

[Smudge]

May seem obvious, but I handle ticks and mosquitoes the same way.

I went to an outdoors shop and found an ultra lightweight pair of long pants that can unzip into shorts and I wear them, along with a lightweight long sleeve shirt.

It doesn't make me any hotter than I would otherwise be, and it provides less skin for those little monsters to latch on to!

 

[triplehooked]

Crush up some B1 tablets in a bowel with a little bit of water and make a paste,and spread it around your ankles and anywhere else on your body.I've also have use a lint roller to get the small ones off and or a cottonball soaked in fingernail polish remover and put it right on them,they tend to release after a couple soakings.

I don't know how strong your bowel is but mine couldn't crush a B1 tablet!!! Besides, I'm NOT putting anything in my bowels and even if I did I wouldn't be making it into a paste and rubbing it on my body. Nope, not gonna happen......

 

[DIGDIG]

There are some really bad diseases from ticks. I recieved the Limerick shot (spelling?), thinking I was now Superman against ticks I went hunting. Afterwards I pulled a tick off my chest, by the next day my entire body hurt to move, even breathing hurt- found out it's called Ericliosis(spelling? again, sorry) Anyway it effects all your joints then your Liver and untreated can kill children or elderly. It is more common for animals to get but the human strain is out there. I don't feel like Superman no more, lol.

 

[truckinbutch]

Been on the farm my entire life . Have never used a chemical repellant specificly for ticks .
However , my wife and I spend a significant amount of time each evening checking each other for ticks .

 

[poorhunter78]

Been on the farm my entire life . Have never used a chemical repellant specificly for ticks .
However , my wife and I spend a significant amount of time each evening checking each other for ticks .

So Trucker... You use the Ole Checkin for Ticks Routine Aye.....

 

[truckinbutch]

Been on the farm my entire life . Have never used a chemical repellant specificly for ticks .
However , my wife and I spend a significant amount of time each evening checking each other for ticks .

So Trucker... You use the Ole Checkin for Ticks Routine Aye.....

A proven winner .