Seed ticks ate me up

[PastorKen]

LINT ROLLER !!!!!!

Great idea! And someone else said duct tape.

 

[Longbowwally]

I never go in the woods without Sawyers Permethrin sprayed on my clothes...Lymes disease back in the 90's taught me that lesson....Ticks ain't nothing to play with....

 

[Aeds151]

As someone who works on forested lands, I used to treat my clothes with pemethrin according to label. Then I got lazy and just sprayed it on my clothes right before hitting the woods. It finally hit me one day, I spray all this cancer juice on me and I am still tore up with seed ticks, ticks that have caused me to contract RMSF, big ones small ones, red bugs, and whatever else causes these weeping welts. I decided a while back im done with the canned chemicals. I spray petroleum based paint, industrial application of glyphosate, and inhale smoke for a living so if I can eliminate exposure, I will. Jmo


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[PastorKen]

im done with the canned chemicals.

So what do you do now to avoid ticks?

 

[NW_Arkansas22]

As someone who works on forested lands, I used to treat my clothes with pemethrin according to label. Then I got lazy and just sprayed it on my clothes right before hitting the woods. It finally hit me one day, I spray all this cancer juice on me and I am still tore up with seed ticks, ticks that have caused me to contract RMSF, big ones small ones, red bugs, and whatever else causes these weeping welts. I decided a while back im done with the canned chemicals. I spray petroleum based paint, industrial application of glyphosate, and inhale smoke for a living so if I can eliminate exposure, I will. Jmo


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Dang....sounds like permethrin would be the least of your worries if that's the case.

Not sure what you do, but your job sounds like something that will show up in a commercial one day...."If you or a loved one was exposed to round up, please call now".

 

[Aeds151]

Ya they had the audacity to send an email saying “the epa has declared glyphosate safe if you follow the label” meanwhile people are being awarded literally billions of dollars for non hochkins lymphoma. The paint I use to mark trees for commercial sale says something along these lines... over occupational exposure to petroleum based paints can cause neurological disorders and cancer of the blood. And then the smoke from wildfires. At this point, I dont do anything for ticks except pick them off when i get home since I am a dead man walking. For weekend hunters, PMeth probably helps though.


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[Longbowwally]

As someone who works on forested lands, I used to treat my clothes with pemethrin according to label. Then I got lazy and just sprayed it on my clothes right before hitting the woods. It finally hit me one day, I spray all this cancer juice on me and I am still tore up with seed ticks, ticks that have caused me to contract RMSF, big ones small ones, red bugs, and whatever else causes these weeping welts. I decided a while back im done with the canned chemicals. I spray petroleum based paint, industrial application of glyphosate, and inhale smoke for a living so if I can eliminate exposure, I will. Jmo


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I don't want to jinx myself, but since I've been using permethrin I don't remember finding a tick on me and I spend a lot of time in the woods(I live in the woods lol) ......

 

[ricky racer]

Man, I'm glad I live in Michigan. We've got skeeters and ticks but my normal attire out in the woods in the summer is shorts and sandals. If you keep moving, the skeeters ain't bad and ticks aren't too bad around here. Where I hunt in PA, ticks are an issue but I only hunt there in November. As long as it's cold, ticks are pretty dormant. I rarely shoot a deer here in Michigan where I find ticks on them. In PA I don't know if I've ever killed a deer without ticks.

 

[Aeds151]

Glad the PMETH works for you. I have heard something about blood types as well. I can go flip a burger on my grill and be ate up with mosquitoes but my wife can eat the burger out side and have no problem. Same with ticks. Maybe they just love my awesome blood. Has anyone heard that this parasitic insects prefer blood types can hone in on one they like?


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[b73]

Glad the PMETH works for you. I have heard something about blood types as well. I can go flip a burger on my grill and be ate up with mosquitoes but my wife can eat the burger out side and have no problem. Same with ticks. Maybe they just love my awesome blood. Has anyone heard that this parasitic insects prefer blood types can hone in on one they like?


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Yes I’ve heard that. They love my - blood type. If I walk in with someone they sometimes end up helping me swat the bugs off me. They have 1 maybe 2 mosquitoes by them and I look like a walking wall of mosquitoes. I’m a blood sucking magnet!!!


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[DelaWhere_Arrow]

Yes I’ve heard that. They love my - blood type. If I walk in with someone they sometimes end up helping me swat the bugs off me. They have 1 maybe 2 mosquitoes by them and I look like a walking wall of mosquitoes. I’m a blood sucking magnet!!!


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This for mosquitoes in my wife’s case. She gets about 5x the number of bites I do regardless of preventative measures.

 

[b73]

This for mosquitoes in my wife’s case. She gets about 5x the number of bites I do regardless of preventative measures.

I thought it might be related to diet but the blood type just makes way more sense to me. I changed my diet pretty drastically, short term, and didn’t notice any difference.


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[joel0711]

Permethrin on clothes,allowed to dry the day before,Snake boots with pants stuffed in them. Use the boots more for ticks and chiggers than for snakes.

 

[lawrence]

Still like my bug tamers (pants and jacket) in addition to permethrin

 

[fbwguy]

I’m currently itching my chiggers bites, both ankles are chewed up. Took my tractor out back yesterday in my work clothes. Bad move on my part

 

[Bhatcher]

Martins Permethrin....that is all. Water based doesn't stink like gasoline. I have cheap compression pants and shirts that I use under regular clothes both layers doused in it. I gleefully watched a tick die on it on a hunt a week ago. Learned my lesson the hard way too.

 

[PastorKen]

Has anyone heard that this parasitic insects prefer blood types can hone in on one they like?

Mosquitos definitely prefer some people over others. And it can change. When I was younger they preferred me. But for the last decade or more they haven’t bothered me too much. I’m not sure what the attraction is based on.