TICKS: bad this year?

[oosik]

No great problem here yet. It's just to darn cold. Only see the tiny ones - this years hatch. I know there will be more if it ever warms up.

 

[fiddlearound]

Forty years ago when we first moved here (central Texas), ticks were terrible.
Then the imported fire ant arrived. NO TICKS for the last 30 years.
Even eliminated the big red carrier ants! Hmmmm, haven't noticed any chiggers either.

So get yourself a bunch of FIRE ANTS!

 

[PuffyC]

Forty years ago when we first moved here (central Texas), ticks were terrible.
Then the imported fire ant arrived. NO TICKS for the last 30 years.
Even eliminated the big red carrier ants! Hmmmm, haven't noticed any chiggers either.

So get yourself a bunch of FIRE ANTS!

Here in Oklahoma the fire ants and ticks seem to have signed a nonaggression pact with each other. Instead they both target their common enemy which is us.

 

[BnRidge]

Here in Oklahoma the fire ants and ticks seem to have signed a nonaggression pact with each other. Instead they both target their common enemy which is us.

No fire ants here. No fire ants, ticks, venomous snakes, bears or wolves. Coons eat the sweet corn, deer nip off the soybeans, woodchucks burrow under the foundations, other than that, we're kind of in a "not much hassle from the wildlife" zone.

 

[dirttoys]

guineas rock, if you dig the built in alarm, and can keep other things from eating them, they will thin the population.

Personal defense is deet or Permethrin deet seems to be the most effective. Permethrin can be used on clothing/camping gear with out harming it.

biphen or the like through a mister does very well when creating safe areas and will last 30 days or so.

Ticks are a critter I wish god would have passed on.

Best,

ed

 

[dmccarty]

Here in Oklahoma the fire ants and ticks seem to have signed a nonaggression pact with each other. Instead they both target their common enemy which is us.

Yeah, here in NC, the fire ants don't seem to have bothered the ticks or chiggers that much. When I lived in Florida, I don't remember finding ticks on me, but chiggers, Oh Lordy, Yes. My dad thinks the lack of ticks in Florida, at least back then, was because of all of the dipping of the cattle killed off the ticks. He said the ranchers used to dig a trench, which would fill with water, and was then treated with a chemical to kill ticks and other pests. The cattle were driven through the trench for treatment. If you did that today, one would be in jail.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

My dad's farm had a concrete dip tank that was probably built in the 1920s. Even back then they didn't want insecticides contaminating their wells.

 

[oosik]

It's been cool and wet all the month of June. Very few ticks. Now it's beginning to warm up - time will tell.

 

[drizler]

https://web.uri.edu/tickencounter/files/TERC_Permethrin_FactSheet.pdf

Tip #7: Tuck in your shirt tail when adult ticks are active but tuck your pant cuffs all the time

Did you know…nymph and adult stage ticks tend to hang out at different heights in the landscape? Nymphs stay close to the ground while adults adventure up just a bit onto vegetation. Because of that, adult ticks typically latch on about knee level as hosts pass by, while nymphs commonly latch on...

web.uri.edu

We get our permitherin at Tractor Supply. Back in the livestock medical section

 

[Torvy]

Used to have ticks all over in NE South Dakota. I haven't run into any here in North Texas. Chiggers are another story. Fire ants, too. Ticks are annoying, but the bad part of ticks is random chance. Every chigger or fire ant bite is bad.