Bug season and bites.

[mcfarmall]

Yeah, I took my dog to the vet yesterday for his annual vaccinations and to pick up his flea/tick/heartworm/intestinal worm meds and left $533.00 lighter. My arse is still bleeding from that trip.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yeah, I took my dog to the vet yesterday for his annual vaccinations and to pick up his flea/tick/heartworm/intestinal worm meds and left $533.00 lighter. My arse is still bleeding from that trip.

Imagine what a comparable bill would be if you had been the patient. YIKES!

 

[drizler]

TickEncounter Resource Center


Here is the comprehensive say showing you how to treat your clothes in yourself and manage dealing with ticks in the outdoors. Permethrin is cheap at tractor supply, something like a lifetime supply is $16 for a quart. Take note how well it holds up in soaked clothing which is been washed.

 

[Jstpssng]

Black flies bother me more than the ticks do; it seems that I have a worse reaction to them every year. Right now my arms look like I've got poison ivy. The bites turn into craters that won't heal for a month.

 

[big bubba]

Black flies bother me more than the ticks do; it seems that I have a worse reaction to them every year. Right now my arms look like I've got poison ivy. The bites turn into craters that won't heal for a month.

do feel for ya, they can be voracious esp up north. horseflies the same down here when they come into season. i try to wear long sleeves & pants in the worst of it. maybe some spray around the cuffs & pant legs. keep things mowed down around the traffic areas.
i don't have a chemical cure all as i don't go ballistic on chemical warfare. so far, no problem w/ bites after all these years.
now if i were raising kids again, different story i guess in areas of biting insects.

i'm not a purist by any means. i just like to keep it simple in the chemical remedies, have lots of natural watershed around..so far, no complaints. if i were raising cattle again....well don't ask me. i just have the wildlife around water that i know spread ticks, etc
hope those black flies ease down. are they for full season or just a life cycle? best regards

 

[oosik]

Pretty fortunate - a few mosquitos but it is too hot for them in the afternoon. A lot of really small wood ticks this year. Later in the year I'll see some deer and horse flies

 

[rd_macgregor]

Black flies are just showing up here now as the days get (too slowly!) warmer. I expect mosquitoes will be along soon enough, too. Horse flies aren't usually around until late June or early July, when it is much warmer. I really don't like things that bite (or sting) me...

 

[/pine]

West Nile Virus found in mosquitoes in Ohio, Washington

Be careful out there...especially this holiday weekend...!

 

[MossRoad]

They've found it in Indiana again this year in Elkhart County just east of us, and the county just NE of Purdue U in west-central Indiana.

 

[ruffdog]

My wife and I just came in from picking black cap berries..........MOSQUITOS!!!!!!!! And the heat index is at 100deg and the air is thick. I put on my mosquito net hat and work coveralls that have been sprayed.