Ticks

[Wayne0 1,552]

Just a heads up. Ticks are out in my neck of the woods! Time to get out the Permethrin.

[WHX?? 55,924]

None here so far  but still early. 

[953 nut 65,016]

Keep the grass cut and avoid bushes the deer have been brushing themselves on. Use a broadcast spreader to apply Spectracide Triazicide insect killer to areas where you will be likely to go for a walk or work outdoors. It isn't as effective as Diazanon was but that has been outlawed for a few years now.

 

 

[WHX?? 55,924]

Good idea Richard but most of mine are picked up out in the woods making firewood. 

It's been suggested to duct tape pant legs to boots but that doesn't really work they just crawl over it but yeah spray your legs and boots down with deep woods off or the like. 

Best thing to do is check the missus all over in the shower at nite for them ... 

 

I got nailed three time by deer ticks ... yep the nasty lyme ones... and they left nasty scars. No pics Sylvia's visuals. 

[JCM 11,067]

24 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

Good idea Richard but most of mine are picked up out in the woods making firewood.

Best thing to do is check the missus all over in the shower at nite for them ... 

 

 

[953 nut 65,016]

18 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

duct tape pant legs to boots but that doesn't really work they just crawl over it but yeah spray your legs and boots down with deep woods off or the like. 

When deer get ticks on them they will brush up against bushes or trees to get rid of them and can get on you while you are just walking by the bush.

[Ed Kennell 45,597]

I Had a tick bite in 1967 that left a perfect 3" diameter bulls eye ring.   Unfortunately, this was  about 10 years before Lymes disease was discovered in Lyme Connecticut.

So I was never treated but weeks after the bite I had all the symptoms , stiff neck, joint pain, face numbness, heart disease, tunnel vision.   

 

[lynnmor 8,728]

18 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

I Had a tick bite in 1967 that left a perfect 3" diameter bulls eye ring.   Unfortunately, this was  about 10 years before Lymes disease was discovered in Lyme Connecticut.

So I was never treated but weeks after the bite I had all the symptoms , stiff neck, joint pain, face numbness, heart disease, tunnel vision.   

 

Did you ever have tests done?  More recent tests are better than what was done years ago.  My daughter hiked the Loyalsock trail for a week many years ago, she returned with serious issues that crippled her for life, tests didn't show much of anything.  To this day we have no clue what happened but it sure looked like Lyme disease.

[Bill D 2,714]

I hose myself down with bug spray that's 40% DEET anytime I'm working out in the yard.  I buy it at Home Depot. 

[Ed Kennell 45,597]

19 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

43 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

Did you ever have tests done? 

In the late seventies after Lyme disease was discovered, I was tested positive but when I took the next level test, it showed negative.   This was ten years after I was bitten and the medical community was very reluctant to diagnose or treat for Lyme disease.  Having experienced all the symptoms both physical and mental I certainly understand how the disease can be crippling or even fatal.  So sorry your daughter had to suffer this disease.   I think I was lucky to have a strong enough immune system to fight off the effects of the disease.

When my immune system was struggling to fight off the flu, colds, and my recent blood loss, the lyme symptoms always come back.   Over the years, I was tested 6 times with 3 positives. Due to fatigue, joint pain, and shortness of breath,  I had full blood test, chest x-rays, and lyme disease tests last week.  All showed negative, so I visit the cardio guru on Tuesday.  Guessing stents may be on the menu.

[ri702bill 11,704]

3 hours ago, JCM said:

Best thing to do is check the missus all over in the shower at nite for them ... 

 

 

[JCM 11,067]

Been listening to him for years. Nothing quite like the sound of a Fender Telecaster.  

[Achto 31,469]

3 hours ago, Bill D said:

I hose myself down with bug spray that's 40% DEET anytime I'm working out in the yard. 

 

I have bumped up to the higher dose when fishing. The Repel 100 with 98% DEET. Bugs fly around you but won't land on you.

Edited yesterday at 06:47 PM by Achto

[Bill D 2,714]

3 hours ago, Achto said:

 

I have bumped up to the higher dose when fishing. The Repel 100 with 98% DEET. Bugs fly around you but won't land on you.

Where did you buy it?

[SylvanLakeWH 31,009]

1 hour ago, Bill D said:

Where did you buy it?

Amazon has it...

[Achto 31,469]

2 hours ago, Bill D said:

Where did you buy it?

 

Wal-Mart, Amazon, sporting goods stores. With the small containers, spray it on your hands & rub on your skin.

 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Repel-100-Percent-Deet-Pump-4-oz/16561282

 

https://www.amazon.com/Repel-Insect-Repellent-Spray-4-Ounce/dp/B004H89KFC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa

 

[WHX?? 55,924]

9 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

tested positive but when I took the next level test, it showed negative

Whenever I got bit I went to the VA and they never tested for it. They said it may show up but probably not. They just gave me pills and sent me packing. I never got the bullseye. 

My dad got it with a huge bullseye and the doc up north knew right away what it was since it's common up there. They gave him pills where he couldn't have alcohol for a couple of weeks. I'll have none of that ...

[kpinnc 17,689]

2 hours ago, Achto said:

spray it on your hands & rub on your skin.

 

And don't touch yer yapper until you wash your hands. 

 

Tastes like crap and makes your tongue and lips numb. 

 

...At least that's what I hear. 

[Wayne0 1,552]

10 hours ago, kpinnc said:

 

And don't touch yer yapper until you wash your hands. 

 

Tastes like crap and makes your tongue and lips numb. 

 

...At least that's what I hear. 

Also, don't get it on yer fishin' line. It melts Mono.

[Treepep 1,102]

Picked up a Lone star visiting my folks in South Carolina a decade ago.  Since then I cannot eat beef or pork.  Really any fatty meat.  I do sometimes just gets me blotchy and felling like I've been huffing paint.  Dunno if that is worse that putting Deet on your skin?

[SylvanLakeWH 31,009]

3 minutes ago, Treepep said:

Dunno if that is worse that putting Deet on your skin?

Good point... 

[JCM 11,067]

6 hours ago, Wayne0 said:

Also, don't get it on yer fishin' line. It melts Mono.

I bet your favorite fishing hole is Chebacco Lake .   Fished there once and rode Moto -cross bikes on the ice in Winter with the tires picked back in the mid 70's.

[Lane Ranger 11,931]

On 4/16/2026 at 12:12 PM, Ed Kennell said:

In the late seventies after Lyme disease was discovered, I was tested positive but when I took the next level test, it showed negative.   This was ten years after I was bitten and the medical community was very reluctant to diagnose or treat for Lyme disease.  Having experienced all the symptoms both physical and mental I certainly understand how the disease can be crippling or even fatal.  So sorry your daughter had to suffer this disease.   I think I was lucky to have a strong enough immune system to fight off the effects of the disease.

When my immune system was struggling to fight off the flu, colds, and my recent blood loss, the lyme symptoms always come back.   Over the years, I was tested 6 times with 3 positives. Due to fatigue, joint pain, and shortness of breath,  I had full blood test, chest x-rays, and lyme disease tests last week.  All showed negative, so I visit the cardio guru on Tuesday.  Guessing stents may be on the menu.

 

Ed , I read this book s couple years ago.  Very informative.  After WWII , the United States had lots of research on chemical and biological weapons (mostly as a result of capturing Data and labs of our enemies) .  When the Korean War broke out we actually used a number of biological weapons.   It too several decades for this author to get the information that substantiates this tick research ( one of several contaminated live critters that we used).
 

One of them was ticks!  We had labs on Long Island, New York and in Wisconsin that university scientists under government contracts developed a more toxic strain of ticks that were actually dropped into North Korea.  It has long been speculated that some of these ticks did get into our environment. 
 

 

[Ed Kennell 45,597]

26 minutes ago, Lane Ranger said:

It has long been speculated that some of these ticks did get into our environment. 

Could this be the reason the medical community was so reluctant to diagnose or treat the disease?  

It's existence was finally revealed in the '70s when  two mothers did thier own research to determine why many of thier children in Lyme Connecticut were suffering the same symptoms of rashes, fatigue, numbness, and sore stiff joints.   Their research finally revealed the common thread...a tick bite with a red bulls eye ring.

 

[EB-80/8inPA 2,000]

“Lyme disease, primarily caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, has been the subject of much research and debate.”

”Lyme Disease can be accompanied by protozoan co-infections like Babesiosis.”

 

This dynamic duo of disease may be effectively treatable with a combination of doxycycline (for bacteria) and ivermectin (for parasites), according to the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, anyway:

https://open.substack.com/pub/2ndsmartestguyintheworld/p/lyme-disease-cure-ivermectin-and-859?r=4adxq7&utm_medium=ios

Research footnoted.

 

I’m hoping all the ticks that may have come out get zonked during this weekend’s polar vortex.  They can take the skeeters with them too for all I care.

Edited 32 minutes ago by EB-80/8inPA