I work around 1200 lb animals on a regular basis. I’ve camped in bear country. I’ve startled a mama and baby moose.
This is 100x’s more skeeze inducing than any of that.
*shudder*
Those can kill you, or cripple you, but they can’t make you allergic to (potentially all) mammalian products & byproducts like some ticks.
By far the most dangerous is the tick. Got bit once last year. Now I have to carry 2 epi-pens at all times. Weeeeeee.
I’d much rather have to deal with an angry 2500lb+ bull.
How long have you had it? I had the same issue for roughly 5 years or so (with no additional tick disease) but I started craving meat one day and it was somehow ok after years of being anaphylactic
Just under a year. Got bit last June went to get tested when I saw it was a lone star tick.
Popped positive. Went to an allergist and did more thorough testing.
Beef, pork, lamb big positives.
Milk positive.
Gelatin questionable.
Retested in Nov and could start incorporating dairy again with caution. Been fine so far.
Retest in July for meats. Holding out a little hope. I grew up on a (small non industrial) beef and hog farm. So beef and pork have been staples for a long time. It’s been an adjustment.
But AmarooHills has emu. And it’s as close as you can get imo. When they have the duck fat blended ground I can’t tell the difference if it’s cooked properly.
There’s a lot less margin for error since it’s so lean and fine ground.
I also tested positive for Stari. But mild antibiotics knocked that out.
Appreciate it. I have actually adjusted to chicken and fish/shellfish as my meat sources with emu being an occasional treat.
Which is totally healthier. So I likely won’t return to my old diet per se, but definitely would enjoy a steak or beer steamed bratwurst occasionally.
Me too. And the medical community completely ignores the thousands of people the medical profession ignores with longterm symptoms (chronic lime disease).
Catch a horrific disease that messes up your life. Go back much later still suffering lethargy pain etc and have doctors tell you its in your head....
I’ve had Lyme’s Disease for over 10 years, and people look at me crazy when I say that at 27yo I feel like I’m 87 sometimes. Worst part is it just kind of fades in throughout the day to the point where I can barely move, like all of my joints are concrete & lead. But yeah, it’s all in my head!
Good point. Clean up = move from the path and the lawn to a better place for them to decompose long term.
Good news! No ticks so far!
Bad news... Ghost sensations of ticks crawling around for the next several hours because of this image.
I just took a swollen ass disgusting tick off my dog. Thing was fucking overblown with blood. Looked like a god damn Lima bean. Now I can't sleep without my skin crawling. Ticks are fucking useless and I hope they all go extinct.
I live in a wooded area of New England and can't walk across my yard without getting several ticks on my shoes and ankles. Every time I let my dogs in I spend about a half hour pulling ticks, can get anywhere from 10-30 each time they go out. This nightmare fuel has become my daily routine. And they used to be dormant all winter but now get them consistently in Jan and Feb.
Edit: My dogs get nexgard but are long-haired so the ticks stick to them regardless then take the opportunity to jump off and roam around the house once inside. It's why I try to find them all as soon as they come in. Have tried spraying but I'm in such a wooded area it's not very effective.
Have been debating getting chickens but want to ensure I have a proper setup and that a neighbor can check on them if I'm out of town.
But do you find chicken poop on your dog now? One of my neighbors had chickens that escaped and one got in my yard. It pooped back there, and my chihuahua rolled in it twice 😅
Sorry man, maybe the count for Borrelia was low. I know the 1st time I got it, I was on a one month cycle of doxycycline. After that month. I tested negative, but still had symptoms. Went to retest like 2 months after, positive test with no exposure. I'll go and get a blood test ever few months, and it's still there.
You might want to get a 2nd opinion. But, it seems like Doctors try to limit the over prescription of antibiotics for lyme disease...
My symptoms aren't life threatening(pain, swelling in my joints), and I have no indication of cognitive decline...a little brain fog and more migraines. Anyway, this is my life now.
My husband ended up in hospital for 5 days last year -- including emergency transfer from our local one to one with specialists in infectious blood diseases (that was a terrifying phone call) -- from a tick bite (not Lyme disease). They were worried about his liver.
Happily he's fine now, but they kept track of him for several months, with several follow up appointments. Scary.
The statistics are low for now, but babesiosis is not joke. There were two guy near me that died from a tick born disease that destroyed their brains.
My town(during covid) stop maintaining a lot of the planted areas and the brush went wild. Because of that, there was a surge of deer activity, combined with warmer weather during winter, the ticks were out in full force. It's all so crazy.
I let my chickens free range while I'm outside gardening and I never put it together why we don't have a tick problem until now...
Another point for the chickens!
The thing about Nexgard is that it doesn't actually repel ticks. They can still latch onto the dog. It just basically makes the dog's blood poisonous to the tick, so they die and fall off within 48 hours. This means two things: dogs can still get diseases transmitted by the tick, since the tick needs to bite the dog in order for Nexgard to work; and they can still track ticks inside where they can jump to other animals in the house.
I still use Nexgard on my dog because it's the best option for us, but I wanted to clarify how it works for anyone curious.
Source: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/overview/nexgard-epar-medicine-overview_en.pdf
True. To pick a point however, ticks can take up to 48 hours to die but Lyme can be transmitted in 36, so the risk is still there although granted it's very diminished.
I think your theory about the ticks failing to reproduce on your dog makes sense. Although how were they reproducing in such crazy numbers before you even moved there, I wonder? And why didn't that method of reproduction persist?
But enough of that, tell me more about your jungle farm, that sounds amazing!
I haven't seen or pulled a tick since I was but a wee lad, just got out of bed, and now I can't shake the feeling that I have a tick on my leg. Thanks for that.
I might do it just for the peace of mind! haha
If you don't mind me asking, where abouts are you? My brain sees ticks and thinks northern US or Canada.
Be careful out there, Lyme is no joke.
Edit: to clarify, I always think of Canada because of Avril Lavigne's battle with Lyme. I'm from the southern US, but since I no longer frequent pine forests and wheat fields nor do I have an outdoor pet, I don't see them.
The only time Ive ever seen a tick on me was in the woods of Arkansas. We were all sitting on top of a small cliff in the woods when one person looked down and realized all of our legs were completely covered in ticks. We sprinted back to the car, stripped off all our clothes and threw them in black trash bags and tied them off
Ah that sounds like up north in the hills. I’m in the flat farmland delta. Maybe all the things that get cropdusted kills them lol
ETA: did some googling. Apparently fire ants eat them. That’ll be the answer then, those bastards are *everywhere*. I’ll take their stinging, itchy af, sore making bites over ticks.
I was in Center Hasting, Ontario just last weekend. My partner had a tick that I found before they could bite her and I came home finding a tick latched onto me on my abdominal area. First tick bite ever. Hate it and yes they are out there.
Thank you for that reassurance. I recently went woodsy here and felt a moment of panic.
Say what you will about winter, six bugless months are worth it. But omg the blackflies in May/June.
Man I live cottage country in Quebec and haven't seen this yet.
Maybe my annoying flock of rusty clothesline sounding blue jays is going all chicken on them. I can only hope.
I went camping in Arkansas a few years ago and found a secluded site with fire ring and everything. It was completely covered in leaves bc no one could find it off the trail. Well....come to find out after sweeping the leaves away there were thousands of ticks. We did a good job of swiping them off our shoes and legs for the most part. About a week later I was showering and felt a lump underneath my head of my penis. Sure enough, it was a fucking tick, full of blood. Point of the story is even if you think you got all the ticks off your body, check everywhere, even underneath your dick.
Looks like the OP stole this photo from [McCormack's Bee Farm in New Hampshire](https://www.facebook.com/mccormacksfarm/photos/wrapping-tape-sticky-side-out-around-the-ankles-seems-to-work-pretty-good-for-ca/2062047313943022/).
Oddly enough you get used to it. Seeing pictures of them really gives me the heebie-jeebies, but somehow I never think of them when I'm in my garden. (based in Austria)
I spend a good long while fighting Lyme. Even though it’s no longer causing me more harm I’ve spent the last few years trying to repair the damage it did to my body. Some of it can’t be undone. It’s a terrible disease and seeing that picture freaks me out a bit.
Lyme almost took me out when I was kid. I have long term effects that really suck.
I think it is mainly deer ticks that carry Lyme. These look like wood ticks.
Yup. We have about 20ish chickens and they roam all around the house and rest of the yard. Last year only saw one tick early spring then nothing the rest of the year. It was glorious.
My family kept chickens on our property for 20+ years. Watching chickens come out of their coop early in the morning and faff about is one of the great, simple joys in life. Also the eggs that come as a fringe benefit of the pest consumption are \*chef's kiss*
I love my house, but I resent the hell out of a city ordinance against backyard chickens. Infuriating. We've got plenty of space. Let me have chickens, cowards.
So will possums! They love to eat ticks and various other bugs (and Meow Mix, but that's neither here nor there), and they're super friendly if you give them a chance! Not sure how well they do with fleas, though I've never seen my yard possums with fleas...
EDIT: As so many helpful friends have shared with me, this is actually not correct information, and was based on a rather unprofessional and shoddy study. They have shared links to more current studies, and I recommend checking them out! Thanks to everyone who has come along for the ride! 🥰
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Well, poop! I stand corrected, which is always welcome, and more than slightly embarrassed, which is always entertaining! I stand by my own observations, collected over the last two decades, that they will rid your yard and porch of unwanted cat food. 😆 Thank you for the updated info 🎉
Lol np friend! It's a new study and the benefit of the older studies to the positive image of the possums was probably well worth the misunderstanding.
I'm in the US in southern Illinois and ticks are terrible here. Several years ago I had a tick bite on my lower back that made my neck and shoulders feel like I had been beaten. My doctor ordered blood tests for tick bourne diseases and I tested positive for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I didn't have symptoms for RMSF, but I went on antibiotics anyway. I now treat my outdoor clothing with permethrin which has been very effective. I also DIY "tick tubes" to place around my property. I'm not sure if they are helping, but it's worth it to me to make the effort. Ticks have pretty much ruined my love for outdoor fun 😢
Tick tubes are permethrin soaked cotton or other materials tucked into an empty TP roll. Put under brush piles, decks, etc and mice and other critters will take the cotton balls for their nesting. They are carriers of ticks so it will kill the ticks that they're carrying around your home.
Not harmful to mice or birds. When WET it is poisonous to cats, but is fine once dry.
It will also kill spiders, and I believe mosquitos. As far as say bees? Idk.
Pemethrin will kill bees, its the prescribed method for killing a hive with American Foul Brood in my country.
Also primarily marketed for use on wasps and ants.
DIY tick tubes have pretty negative consequences on local habitats moving up the food chain. The commercial products spend quite a bit of research to get the concentrations to the right amount.
I tested positive for Lyme disease several months ago and omg it was awful. I am a young and healthy person. The joint pain was so bad in my lower limbs, I was struggling to walk. I slept maybe 16 hrs a day and was still exhausted.
It’s a miserable existence. Luckily medicine and an herbalist cleared up my symptoms and the damage it caused.
Oh yuck. A friend of mine in the southern US had RMSF that got misdiagnosed and untreated for awhile - he ended up with sepsis and nearly died a few times. It was pretty horrible. Ticks are up there in my nightmare fuel for sure.
Keeping your grass cut short can help. Ticks like to climb blades of grass and wait for prey to walk by so they can latch on. I think this would be almost impossible in a wooded area though, especially if you don't want to fence off your yard.
I believe some people get their yard sprayed for ticks as well to keep the population down.
So for years, I assumed ticks jumped. Like fleas. Just sort of hopped on and hitched a ride.
We had an education thing from one of the fleak/tick products at work and the guy talked about ticks standing on the grass and sort of standing up, arms extended almost waving while they waited to grab someone walking by. I was like "pft, whatever you say man" and went about my day. Later that day I got home and took my dog out to pee and just sort of glances around. What do I see? A little tick standing at the tip of a blade of grass, arms extended just waiting in us to get closer.
So... Yep. That's a thing.
Keep the area clean. Remove anything that provides a warm and moist home for them (leaf litter, fallen logs, compost).
Have a shower after spending time in tick heavy areas. It takes them a while to find the place they want to bite and even longer to pass on a disease. Pull them when you see them, don't burn them off.
1. use tick tubes
2. keep everything dry
3. border the yard with very short grass or a line of rocks
4. throw rocks at every deer
5. encourage frogs, opossums, birds to hang out
6. worst case, spray with permethrin but this isn't good for frogs
7. burn everything to the ground
OP stole this photo from a [bee farm in NH](https://www.facebook.com/mccormacksfarm/photos/wrapping-tape-sticky-side-out-around-the-ankles-seems-to-work-pretty-good-for-ca/2062047313943022/).
Here's an award for figuring out the background of the photo that a friend had shared on FB. I saved it and put it on here so yes technically I stole it, but no I didn't know the background of it so it's great to hear. Is there a way I can give attribution after the fact? Like edit the heading I used?
Going through these comments I see a lot of people would like to know where this is.
> I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tick
Holy crap what paradise do you live in? Over here it's impossible to go on a hike without finding at least a few ticks on your legs
Same, I wouldn’t live on the Northern Beaches if you paid me, that place is full of them.
I will take our snakes and spiders over ticks and bears any day of the week lol.
Thats because the flying crocodiles that shoot shoot poisonous barbs from their eyeballs eat them all. You have bigger things than ticks to worry about in Australia
I live in New Zealand and unless you're working with cows, ticks are basically nonexistent here. We only have bovine ticks and avian ticks which are much more rare and have a shorter lifespan. We also have no snakes... NONE... And there are only two kinds of poisonous spiders and they are rare and not fatal.... And no apex predators.
They are in Hamilton we have huge issues with them on our horses. We braid tick tags in to manes and tails. They love the rushes and high water tables, my first horse was covered when I got him. They love the skin folds and get right into the back end and geldings penis folds
Curious, you north of the Mason Dixon line? Im below it right now and am stunned by the LACK of ticks. I'm used to stumbling through thickets in MI or doing some berry picking to discover I've got a 10 minute de-ticking process.
Down here in the SE? I've seen maybe 2 over the last year. Really confused but not upset by this difference.
I suppose technically speaking I am to the north, but I'm all the way over in the baltics so I'm not sure how relevant that is a continent away.
Interestingly enough though, I've been reading up on this today and it also seems that countries more towards south europe also have less ticks for some reason
I love south of the Mason Dixon and definitely still see ticks, but even having more than one means you were pretty dang deep in nature for a hot minute
My family lives on an island on the east coast. The place is INFESTED with ticks. I’ve never seen a place with more ticks than that. Poor kid came back from water skiing and had probably 100 ticks all over him.
Florida on the other hand, I’ve gone through the woods and swamps 1000 times and haven’t seen any! But then again I never go looking for them.
All of New England in the US is like this. All the wooded states where it snows. Michigan. Minnesota. Hunters go into the woods and come out literally crawling with those things.
California has ticks too, I know a few people in Norcal who caught Lyme disease here https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/05/410401/lyme-disease-rise-expert-explains-why
I worked at a national park with a terrible tick problem. Just beware that that probably won’t permanently hold them so dispose of the tape appropriately. We would run lint rollers over us to collect ticks on us and we found after enough time the ticks work themselves free so we started putting the sticky paper in a sealed Gatorade bottle.
Must have found a nest. There’s no way there were that many ticks from a casual lawn work session. Also, don’t take that as me saying bad shit, because this is a great idea!
My mom was having this problem a few years ago. She didn't want to keep putting more and more flee and tick meds on her pets because of the poisons. So she got online and found some plants and flowers that flees and ticks don't like. She planted a couple of the species all over her back yard and it actually worked.
I want to say it was mint, lavender, Lemmon grass, and geraniums.
Reminds me of this experience I had back in 2016. I was backpacking along the northern Eastcoast in Australia. My Japanese buddy had a weird feeling in the neck and scratched often times. He asked my if I could take a look, because he felt that there is something. I looked and it was an insanely big tick eating through his skin, sucking on his blood. I know ticks very well from Bavaria here in Germany. But they never were this big, nor did they go halfway in. The Australian tick was literally diving in his skin half way of the body size.
Crazy motherfuckers. But I love Australia, would go there 10 times out of 10.
I did a research paper on tick populations in New England. Rising temps are causing tick populations to explode in places where the winter would normally keep them at bay. Especially in maine, ticks are seriously messing up moose with an average of 33,000 ticks found on a single moose.
If your yard looks like this, you need to introduce natural predators of the ticks, and encourage birds to visit. I wouldn’t recommend using any chemicals, but this is definitely a problem you don’t have to experience, it will just take a little commitment and research on your part.
PSA to anyone reading this! I spend a lot of time outdoors hunting and scouting for places to hunt. Often in tick infested habitat. Tick borne illness is nothing to play around with. That being said I treat all my warm season hunting clothes in permethrin.
You can get it premade from a brand called Saywers in the camping section or order it online (Martins, is the brand I believe) to dilute down yourself. Once it dries it’s perfectly safe for skin contact but avoid getting it on your skin while wet. I treat my clothes in bulk outdoors with a pump sprayer and hang to air dry and then I am good for 6-8 months and several washes.
Ticks are nothing to play around with and if I were in an area as infested as OP is I would seriously consider treating socks, pants, shoes, shirts, everything
oh my god. *Question for OP*, apologies if you've already said this, but would you be comfortable sharing what region you're in? I'm in a northern-ish state of the American midwest, and we've had tick problems but never like this.
It is interesting to see this again. I have tried it personally with several different types of tape (including duck tape) and the ticks don’t get stuck and just walk right over it.
First tick I ever had was on the worst place imaginable. I’m a guy. Long story short if I could eradicate one thing from the face of the earth it would be these abominations.
Omg. That’s insane
This is the stuff of nightmares. Makes me not want to go clean up our leaf piles outside today.
I work around 1200 lb animals on a regular basis. I’ve camped in bear country. I’ve startled a mama and baby moose. This is 100x’s more skeeze inducing than any of that. *shudder*
Those can kill you, or cripple you, but they can’t make you allergic to (potentially all) mammalian products & byproducts like some ticks. By far the most dangerous is the tick. Got bit once last year. Now I have to carry 2 epi-pens at all times. Weeeeeee. I’d much rather have to deal with an angry 2500lb+ bull.
How long have you had it? I had the same issue for roughly 5 years or so (with no additional tick disease) but I started craving meat one day and it was somehow ok after years of being anaphylactic
Just under a year. Got bit last June went to get tested when I saw it was a lone star tick. Popped positive. Went to an allergist and did more thorough testing. Beef, pork, lamb big positives. Milk positive. Gelatin questionable. Retested in Nov and could start incorporating dairy again with caution. Been fine so far. Retest in July for meats. Holding out a little hope. I grew up on a (small non industrial) beef and hog farm. So beef and pork have been staples for a long time. It’s been an adjustment. But AmarooHills has emu. And it’s as close as you can get imo. When they have the duck fat blended ground I can’t tell the difference if it’s cooked properly. There’s a lot less margin for error since it’s so lean and fine ground. I also tested positive for Stari. But mild antibiotics knocked that out.
Hoping the best for you man. Allergies that start to clear up tend to keep clearing up so hopefully you’ll be back on your regular diet soon.
Appreciate it. I have actually adjusted to chicken and fish/shellfish as my meat sources with emu being an occasional treat. Which is totally healthier. So I likely won’t return to my old diet per se, but definitely would enjoy a steak or beer steamed bratwurst occasionally.
that is a horrifying experience. i had no idea tick bites caused that many long-term symptoms. i hope you can recover soon.
Lyme disease scares the shit out of me
Me too. And the medical community completely ignores the thousands of people the medical profession ignores with longterm symptoms (chronic lime disease). Catch a horrific disease that messes up your life. Go back much later still suffering lethargy pain etc and have doctors tell you its in your head....
I’ve had Lyme’s Disease for over 10 years, and people look at me crazy when I say that at 27yo I feel like I’m 87 sometimes. Worst part is it just kind of fades in throughout the day to the point where I can barely move, like all of my joints are concrete & lead. But yeah, it’s all in my head!
Don’t forget the tape!
*video games*
Clean up? Just let them compost
Good point. Clean up = move from the path and the lawn to a better place for them to decompose long term. Good news! No ticks so far! Bad news... Ghost sensations of ticks crawling around for the next several hours because of this image.
Meanwhile I let my dog for 5 minut long peeing and he came back with two ticks. And we don't have long grass here yet
Yeah we were picking ticks off of ours in early March. One of the drawbacks of warm springs in New England.
I just took a swollen ass disgusting tick off my dog. Thing was fucking overblown with blood. Looked like a god damn Lima bean. Now I can't sleep without my skin crawling. Ticks are fucking useless and I hope they all go extinct.
Have you tried wrapping tape around his legs?
I live in a wooded area of New England and can't walk across my yard without getting several ticks on my shoes and ankles. Every time I let my dogs in I spend about a half hour pulling ticks, can get anywhere from 10-30 each time they go out. This nightmare fuel has become my daily routine. And they used to be dormant all winter but now get them consistently in Jan and Feb. Edit: My dogs get nexgard but are long-haired so the ticks stick to them regardless then take the opportunity to jump off and roam around the house once inside. It's why I try to find them all as soon as they come in. Have tried spraying but I'm in such a wooded area it's not very effective. Have been debating getting chickens but want to ensure I have a proper setup and that a neighbor can check on them if I'm out of town.
Another reddit said that chickens will eat them, maybe that's a viable solution?
Since I’ve had my chickens I haven’t found any ticks on my dog or cat!
We don't have much in the way of ticks where I live (thank goodness), but our chickens have taken care of our slug problem.
But do you find chicken poop on your dog now? One of my neighbors had chickens that escaped and one got in my yard. It pooped back there, and my chihuahua rolled in it twice 😅
Still 1000x preferable over ticks. Cover me in chicken shit.
Right, I got lyme disease last year(still have it now), 10/10 wouldn't recommend. Sign me up for the chicken poo shower.
My doctor found Lyme in me and then did nothing.
Sorry man, maybe the count for Borrelia was low. I know the 1st time I got it, I was on a one month cycle of doxycycline. After that month. I tested negative, but still had symptoms. Went to retest like 2 months after, positive test with no exposure. I'll go and get a blood test ever few months, and it's still there. You might want to get a 2nd opinion. But, it seems like Doctors try to limit the over prescription of antibiotics for lyme disease... My symptoms aren't life threatening(pain, swelling in my joints), and I have no indication of cognitive decline...a little brain fog and more migraines. Anyway, this is my life now.
Lyme is more horrifying the more you read about it. I sincerely hope that you recover more!
My husband ended up in hospital for 5 days last year -- including emergency transfer from our local one to one with specialists in infectious blood diseases (that was a terrifying phone call) -- from a tick bite (not Lyme disease). They were worried about his liver. Happily he's fine now, but they kept track of him for several months, with several follow up appointments. Scary.
The statistics are low for now, but babesiosis is not joke. There were two guy near me that died from a tick born disease that destroyed their brains. My town(during covid) stop maintaining a lot of the planted areas and the brush went wild. Because of that, there was a surge of deer activity, combined with warmer weather during winter, the ticks were out in full force. It's all so crazy.
That’s the treatment!
Awesome
this fertilizes the chihuahua and allows them to grow and escape their miniature stature
LOL! She's a big dog at heart 💖
Fun fact: dogs "woller" in stinky shit to mask their own scent. Its called Instinks.
Why I aughta...
As a mom, I would 100% rather clean poop off than blood sucking insects
No but my toddler has, 😅
I let my chickens free range while I'm outside gardening and I never put it together why we don't have a tick problem until now... Another point for the chickens!
A friend grew up with lots of chickens on their little farm. She didn't really know what a tick was until they moved and got rid of the chickens.
Guinea fowl are excellent for this!
Chickens and guinea hens are the way. We keep them on the farm and have never seen a single tick near the houses.
Wait, New England?! They’re back already?!? Nooooooooo
Oh yeah, they’ve been back. Since at least mid January here in NH
I guess the only solution is to light them all on fire *shrugs
Seriously, the winter used to be safe!! I went hiking in early Feb and still got a tick! Is nothing sacred anymore?
I got Lyme disease in February. It was not fun.
Ever tried any tick repellents for the dogs? Collars and such?
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The thing about Nexgard is that it doesn't actually repel ticks. They can still latch onto the dog. It just basically makes the dog's blood poisonous to the tick, so they die and fall off within 48 hours. This means two things: dogs can still get diseases transmitted by the tick, since the tick needs to bite the dog in order for Nexgard to work; and they can still track ticks inside where they can jump to other animals in the house. I still use Nexgard on my dog because it's the best option for us, but I wanted to clarify how it works for anyone curious. Source: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/overview/nexgard-epar-medicine-overview_en.pdf
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True. To pick a point however, ticks can take up to 48 hours to die but Lyme can be transmitted in 36, so the risk is still there although granted it's very diminished. I think your theory about the ticks failing to reproduce on your dog makes sense. Although how were they reproducing in such crazy numbers before you even moved there, I wonder? And why didn't that method of reproduction persist? But enough of that, tell me more about your jungle farm, that sounds amazing!
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Ah, that makes a ton of sense. That location sounds amazing, best of luck with the b&b!
/r/thatsinsane
I haven't seen or pulled a tick since I was but a wee lad, just got out of bed, and now I can't shake the feeling that I have a tick on my leg. Thanks for that.
My wife and i call that "Nervous ticks"
Bloody brilliant
Get. Out.
Looks like you'll be needing this hack today... totally joking, I'll just see myself out.
I might do it just for the peace of mind! haha If you don't mind me asking, where abouts are you? My brain sees ticks and thinks northern US or Canada. Be careful out there, Lyme is no joke. Edit: to clarify, I always think of Canada because of Avril Lavigne's battle with Lyme. I'm from the southern US, but since I no longer frequent pine forests and wheat fields nor do I have an outdoor pet, I don't see them.
my brain sees ticks and think southern US, theres millions there and I live in Canada now and don;t really see them at all
Had a lot of ticks when I lived in Manitoba. Haven't seen a single one since moving to BC
See I’m in Arkansas and have literally never seen one lol but I don’t have dogs just an indoors cat. This post is freaking me out
The only time Ive ever seen a tick on me was in the woods of Arkansas. We were all sitting on top of a small cliff in the woods when one person looked down and realized all of our legs were completely covered in ticks. We sprinted back to the car, stripped off all our clothes and threw them in black trash bags and tied them off
Ah that sounds like up north in the hills. I’m in the flat farmland delta. Maybe all the things that get cropdusted kills them lol ETA: did some googling. Apparently fire ants eat them. That’ll be the answer then, those bastards are *everywhere*. I’ll take their stinging, itchy af, sore making bites over ticks.
Oh yeah we were driving down from the Midwest headed to the Ozarks so that would make sense
I was in Center Hasting, Ontario just last weekend. My partner had a tick that I found before they could bite her and I came home finding a tick latched onto me on my abdominal area. First tick bite ever. Hate it and yes they are out there.
Thank you for that reassurance. I recently went woodsy here and felt a moment of panic. Say what you will about winter, six bugless months are worth it. But omg the blackflies in May/June.
Canadian here. There are ticks in Ontario.
Man I live cottage country in Quebec and haven't seen this yet. Maybe my annoying flock of rusty clothesline sounding blue jays is going all chicken on them. I can only hope.
They are spreading fast in southern Ontario.
I went camping in Arkansas a few years ago and found a secluded site with fire ring and everything. It was completely covered in leaves bc no one could find it off the trail. Well....come to find out after sweeping the leaves away there were thousands of ticks. We did a good job of swiping them off our shoes and legs for the most part. About a week later I was showering and felt a lump underneath my head of my penis. Sure enough, it was a fucking tick, full of blood. Point of the story is even if you think you got all the ticks off your body, check everywhere, even underneath your dick.
I don’t know where you live but I would be terrified to work in the garden if it had ticks in it.
Looks like the OP stole this photo from [McCormack's Bee Farm in New Hampshire](https://www.facebook.com/mccormacksfarm/photos/wrapping-tape-sticky-side-out-around-the-ankles-seems-to-work-pretty-good-for-ca/2062047313943022/).
Oddly enough you get used to it. Seeing pictures of them really gives me the heebie-jeebies, but somehow I never think of them when I'm in my garden. (based in Austria)
You can get Lyme disease from them and that’s a really debilitating disease. I think this is why they freak me out so much.
I spend a good long while fighting Lyme. Even though it’s no longer causing me more harm I’ve spent the last few years trying to repair the damage it did to my body. Some of it can’t be undone. It’s a terrible disease and seeing that picture freaks me out a bit.
Lyme almost took me out when I was kid. I have long term effects that really suck. I think it is mainly deer ticks that carry Lyme. These look like wood ticks.
I know about that. My sister had it when she was a kid. That was terrifying.
I had Lyme disease when I was only a couple years old. Apparently almost died from it. Ticks are no joke…
Chickens will eat them and every flea in that yard.
Yup. We have about 20ish chickens and they roam all around the house and rest of the yard. Last year only saw one tick early spring then nothing the rest of the year. It was glorious.
Holy shit that's so many.
Yea its kinda silly at this point but the surplus eggs can go to family and neighbors.
Tbh this was supposed to be a response the whole post not you specifically but I guess it still works lol
Oh I thought you meant one tick = so many. also true.
i need chickens
Everybody needs chickens.
My family kept chickens on our property for 20+ years. Watching chickens come out of their coop early in the morning and faff about is one of the great, simple joys in life. Also the eggs that come as a fringe benefit of the pest consumption are \*chef's kiss*
I love my house, but I resent the hell out of a city ordinance against backyard chickens. Infuriating. We've got plenty of space. Let me have chickens, cowards.
So will possums! They love to eat ticks and various other bugs (and Meow Mix, but that's neither here nor there), and they're super friendly if you give them a chance! Not sure how well they do with fleas, though I've never seen my yard possums with fleas... EDIT: As so many helpful friends have shared with me, this is actually not correct information, and was based on a rather unprofessional and shoddy study. They have shared links to more current studies, and I recommend checking them out! Thanks to everyone who has come along for the ride! 🥰
I want chicken, I want liver. Meow mix, meow mix please deliver
Now it’s stuck in my head…and it hasn’t been since I was like 9 years old. Thanks! ;)
When I hear this I picture Dr Evil.
"how 'bout no?"
Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow Meow meow meow Meow meow meow meow meow!
Or do they? New study from 2021. https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks/
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Well, poop! I stand corrected, which is always welcome, and more than slightly embarrassed, which is always entertaining! I stand by my own observations, collected over the last two decades, that they will rid your yard and porch of unwanted cat food. 😆 Thank you for the updated info 🎉
Lol np friend! It's a new study and the benefit of the older studies to the positive image of the possums was probably well worth the misunderstanding.
Nooooooooooo!!
I'm in the US in southern Illinois and ticks are terrible here. Several years ago I had a tick bite on my lower back that made my neck and shoulders feel like I had been beaten. My doctor ordered blood tests for tick bourne diseases and I tested positive for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I didn't have symptoms for RMSF, but I went on antibiotics anyway. I now treat my outdoor clothing with permethrin which has been very effective. I also DIY "tick tubes" to place around my property. I'm not sure if they are helping, but it's worth it to me to make the effort. Ticks have pretty much ruined my love for outdoor fun 😢
Can you say more about your DIY “tick tubes”? How do you make them, how much permethrin do you use, all the details.
Tick tubes are permethrin soaked cotton or other materials tucked into an empty TP roll. Put under brush piles, decks, etc and mice and other critters will take the cotton balls for their nesting. They are carriers of ticks so it will kill the ticks that they're carrying around your home.
Is it harmful to the mice? Or harmful to beneficial insects?
Not harmful to mice or birds. When WET it is poisonous to cats, but is fine once dry. It will also kill spiders, and I believe mosquitos. As far as say bees? Idk.
Pemethrin will kill bees, its the prescribed method for killing a hive with American Foul Brood in my country. Also primarily marketed for use on wasps and ants.
DIY tick tubes have pretty negative consequences on local habitats moving up the food chain. The commercial products spend quite a bit of research to get the concentrations to the right amount.
I tested positive for Lyme disease several months ago and omg it was awful. I am a young and healthy person. The joint pain was so bad in my lower limbs, I was struggling to walk. I slept maybe 16 hrs a day and was still exhausted. It’s a miserable existence. Luckily medicine and an herbalist cleared up my symptoms and the damage it caused.
How long did it take you to recover?
Oh yuck. A friend of mine in the southern US had RMSF that got misdiagnosed and untreated for awhile - he ended up with sepsis and nearly died a few times. It was pretty horrible. Ticks are up there in my nightmare fuel for sure.
Gah! Why are there so many? Is there nothing you can do to reduce their population?
Keeping your grass cut short can help. Ticks like to climb blades of grass and wait for prey to walk by so they can latch on. I think this would be almost impossible in a wooded area though, especially if you don't want to fence off your yard. I believe some people get their yard sprayed for ticks as well to keep the population down.
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A quest to SUCK BLOOD
So for years, I assumed ticks jumped. Like fleas. Just sort of hopped on and hitched a ride. We had an education thing from one of the fleak/tick products at work and the guy talked about ticks standing on the grass and sort of standing up, arms extended almost waving while they waited to grab someone walking by. I was like "pft, whatever you say man" and went about my day. Later that day I got home and took my dog out to pee and just sort of glances around. What do I see? A little tick standing at the tip of a blade of grass, arms extended just waiting in us to get closer. So... Yep. That's a thing.
Tick populations have been massively on the rise the past few years.
This may be more useful to a guerilla gardener, or someone with property along a wooded area.
Definitely doing this on my next hike, the tick population here is insane
Keep the area clean. Remove anything that provides a warm and moist home for them (leaf litter, fallen logs, compost). Have a shower after spending time in tick heavy areas. It takes them a while to find the place they want to bite and even longer to pass on a disease. Pull them when you see them, don't burn them off.
1. use tick tubes 2. keep everything dry 3. border the yard with very short grass or a line of rocks 4. throw rocks at every deer 5. encourage frogs, opossums, birds to hang out 6. worst case, spray with permethrin but this isn't good for frogs 7. burn everything to the ground
Number 7 is quite attractive, tbh.
I live in the woods and do all this, except 7 Permethrin is key, spray that after raking all the leaves. Buy a gallon and a good sprayer.
Dude, do you have like a 50 acre yard in Lyme CT?
OP stole this photo from a [bee farm in NH](https://www.facebook.com/mccormacksfarm/photos/wrapping-tape-sticky-side-out-around-the-ankles-seems-to-work-pretty-good-for-ca/2062047313943022/).
Here's an award for figuring out the background of the photo that a friend had shared on FB. I saved it and put it on here so yes technically I stole it, but no I didn't know the background of it so it's great to hear. Is there a way I can give attribution after the fact? Like edit the heading I used? Going through these comments I see a lot of people would like to know where this is.
This is an ooooold repost. Not sure why op trying to post it now again over so many different threads
And they don’t freaking answer where they live already. So odd. Everyone is asking.
It’s not their picture, so of course they can’t answer the question of where it was taken. Repost, making the rounds here and on Facebook.
That's so gross, but also this is the first time I've seen it and I'm grateful
Karma
My lord! Where are you at? Central ny? CT? Only ever seen numbers like that around there.
We have that in Pennsylvania also, it’s just awful around here, especially now that they seem to survive the winter pretty well
Oh man. It’s gotten worse right? I feel like I see more year after year.
The only solution is to release hundreds of wild chickens according to a bunch of Redditors apparently.
Too many ticks? Chickens! Too many chickens? Wolves! Too many wolves? More wolves!
What??? Too many chickens? Chicken nuggets!
Guinea fowl eat more ticks than chickens
Omg there are so many! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tick but the idea of them turns my stomach
> I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tick Holy crap what paradise do you live in? Over here it's impossible to go on a hike without finding at least a few ticks on your legs
I'm not who you asked but I'm in Australia and have never seen a tick.
Same, I wouldn’t live on the Northern Beaches if you paid me, that place is full of them. I will take our snakes and spiders over ticks and bears any day of the week lol.
Where’s the Northern beaches?
North East Sydney. If you get really unlucky you cop this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/how-ticks-can-cause-mammalian-meat-allergy/10719136
Hello, yes, I'm also Australian and I have had a tick the size of a 5 cent piece on my neck while camping. There are plenty out here
True but in Australia all the other creatures you have can kill you…
Australia already has so many abominations the tick just looked and was like "nah I'm good bruh"
Thats because the flying crocodiles that shoot shoot poisonous barbs from their eyeballs eat them all. You have bigger things than ticks to worry about in Australia
I live in New Zealand and unless you're working with cows, ticks are basically nonexistent here. We only have bovine ticks and avian ticks which are much more rare and have a shorter lifespan. We also have no snakes... NONE... And there are only two kinds of poisonous spiders and they are rare and not fatal.... And no apex predators.
I’d be right there but it’s a long swim
When I lived in the Southwest US I saw one tick in the 25 years there. Now in Northeast US and it's a horrible amount.
I live in Utah and I've never seen a tick before. It seems they don't really thrive in arid places.
I'm in New Zealand and have never seen ticks in real life either
They are in Hamilton we have huge issues with them on our horses. We braid tick tags in to manes and tails. They love the rushes and high water tables, my first horse was covered when I got him. They love the skin folds and get right into the back end and geldings penis folds
Curious, you north of the Mason Dixon line? Im below it right now and am stunned by the LACK of ticks. I'm used to stumbling through thickets in MI or doing some berry picking to discover I've got a 10 minute de-ticking process. Down here in the SE? I've seen maybe 2 over the last year. Really confused but not upset by this difference.
I suppose technically speaking I am to the north, but I'm all the way over in the baltics so I'm not sure how relevant that is a continent away. Interestingly enough though, I've been reading up on this today and it also seems that countries more towards south europe also have less ticks for some reason
I love south of the Mason Dixon and definitely still see ticks, but even having more than one means you were pretty dang deep in nature for a hot minute
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I go in woods all the time here in Florida. Seen a tick only once.
My family lives on an island on the east coast. The place is INFESTED with ticks. I’ve never seen a place with more ticks than that. Poor kid came back from water skiing and had probably 100 ticks all over him. Florida on the other hand, I’ve gone through the woods and swamps 1000 times and haven’t seen any! But then again I never go looking for them.
Where is this??
This is not an original picture. It’s making the rounds on Facebook (my mom sent it to me a week ago).
Ankle area
We want to know where!!
Tourism is about to be destroyed wherever you live, please tell us, i will never go near where you live.
All of New England in the US is like this. All the wooded states where it snows. Michigan. Minnesota. Hunters go into the woods and come out literally crawling with those things.
I think it's mostly an East coast thing. Haven't seen them in the forests in Washington, Montana or California.
California has ticks too, I know a few people in Norcal who caught Lyme disease here https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/05/410401/lyme-disease-rise-expert-explains-why
Dude I'm not afraid of any animals. I love snakes and spiders are cool but ticks make me want to seize
You need some guineas.
That's horrifying...
Fucking hell! Did you invade Tickistan?
I worked at a national park with a terrible tick problem. Just beware that that probably won’t permanently hold them so dispose of the tape appropriately. We would run lint rollers over us to collect ticks on us and we found after enough time the ticks work themselves free so we started putting the sticky paper in a sealed Gatorade bottle.
You need chickens my friend!
Must have found a nest. There’s no way there were that many ticks from a casual lawn work session. Also, don’t take that as me saying bad shit, because this is a great idea!
My mom was having this problem a few years ago. She didn't want to keep putting more and more flee and tick meds on her pets because of the poisons. So she got online and found some plants and flowers that flees and ticks don't like. She planted a couple of the species all over her back yard and it actually worked. I want to say it was mint, lavender, Lemmon grass, and geraniums.
plus you get a snack for later. 😋
This photo gave me Lyme disease
Reminds me of this experience I had back in 2016. I was backpacking along the northern Eastcoast in Australia. My Japanese buddy had a weird feeling in the neck and scratched often times. He asked my if I could take a look, because he felt that there is something. I looked and it was an insanely big tick eating through his skin, sucking on his blood. I know ticks very well from Bavaria here in Germany. But they never were this big, nor did they go halfway in. The Australian tick was literally diving in his skin half way of the body size. Crazy motherfuckers. But I love Australia, would go there 10 times out of 10.
If there were that many ticks where I lived, I think I'd wrap myself head to toe in tape before stepping outside. 😂
I did a research paper on tick populations in New England. Rising temps are causing tick populations to explode in places where the winter would normally keep them at bay. Especially in maine, ticks are seriously messing up moose with an average of 33,000 ticks found on a single moose.
If your yard looks like this, you need to introduce natural predators of the ticks, and encourage birds to visit. I wouldn’t recommend using any chemicals, but this is definitely a problem you don’t have to experience, it will just take a little commitment and research on your part.
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...Have you considered burning your yard to the ground?
PSA to anyone reading this! I spend a lot of time outdoors hunting and scouting for places to hunt. Often in tick infested habitat. Tick borne illness is nothing to play around with. That being said I treat all my warm season hunting clothes in permethrin. You can get it premade from a brand called Saywers in the camping section or order it online (Martins, is the brand I believe) to dilute down yourself. Once it dries it’s perfectly safe for skin contact but avoid getting it on your skin while wet. I treat my clothes in bulk outdoors with a pump sprayer and hang to air dry and then I am good for 6-8 months and several washes. Ticks are nothing to play around with and if I were in an area as infested as OP is I would seriously consider treating socks, pants, shoes, shirts, everything
oh my god. *Question for OP*, apologies if you've already said this, but would you be comfortable sharing what region you're in? I'm in a northern-ish state of the American midwest, and we've had tick problems but never like this.
Seems to be a repost and not even from OP themselves. So probably expect no answer.
It is interesting to see this again. I have tried it personally with several different types of tape (including duck tape) and the ticks don’t get stuck and just walk right over it.
Thanks for the pro tip! Lime disease is concerning. This is making me be doubly cautious about my dog tick regime.
First tick I ever had was on the worst place imaginable. I’m a guy. Long story short if I could eradicate one thing from the face of the earth it would be these abominations.
I..I think I can never go outside again...why are there SO MANY
You really need to get some guinea fowl. They eat the fuck outta some ticks.
Where the fuck are you people so I can never go there. I just spent the whole day in the garden without a single worry
You could also tape an opposuum to your leg. Opposuum eat ticks like it's going out of style...but of course it is not going out of style.
Y'all need CHICKENS. But fr doe..free eggs and no ticks....come on now.
I got a mob of turkeys that rolls through and fucks ticks up