Dead ticks

[jaxs]

Each chigger bite is equal to 10 mosquitoe bites on me. I'd consider drinking DDT if it made chiggers leave me alone.

 

[oosik]

Chiggers - Ha - being from AK - had NO knowledge of these nasties when visiting my wife's relatives in Omaha. So - - everybody is giving me the weird eye as I'm sitting out on the front lawn soaking up suds. About half an hour of that and I was itching, scratching and cursing for remainder of the day. Those bites actually hurt.

 

[cqaigy2]

Boy, sounds like you have absorbed some sort of pesticide. Do you spray around the house or barn?

 

[mljenkins]

First, I wish your brother a full recovery from Lyme Disease.
I'm 67 years old and a few medications came with the years. Your question got me thinking, we put a 30 day flea and tick killer on the cats and they sometimes sit on my recliner. That stuff used to work so well that we only had to put it on the dog and the cats didn't have fleas or ticks. The dog died a while back. This year, we're putting the flea and tick killer on both cats but they're still scratching. It's hard to believe a small transfer from two cats is killing ticks on me, especially since, I'm staying out at the farm and seldom around those cats. Maybe I should give the cats some cholesterol medicine.

It’s probably the flea spray. If we spray our horses with Pyrethrin/Permethrin fly spray it will keep the ticks off. We usually get dog ticks here, deer ticks are horrible because they are so small they are hard to spot.

 

[rekees4300]

For years I've occasionally gotten a tiny tick attached to my miserable old hide. I think they're called deer ticks as often as not, by the time I find them, they seem to be dead. Does anyone know, WHY THEY'RE DEAD? I'm not complaining about it, I just wish they'd die before they inject the itch serum.

Be afraid, be VERY afraid! :shocked: Don't know why they are dying but do know they are very dangerous, spread multiple diseases. Last bite I had took 18 months to heal but, far as I know, didn't get any diseases. Watch out for a bullseye ring around a bite, that's a symptom of Lyme disease.

 

[Sigarms]

I'm in my 50's. Have multiple ticks on my body over the years which were removed, but NONE have ever been dead.

Rubbing alcohol kills them pretty well. Keep a pill bottle full of the stuff and whenver one comes off, they go into the bottle. You generally want to keep them for while to esnure you haven't gotten anything, and by bad chance you catch something, you want to have the actual tick on hand that caused the problem IMO.

 

[bigtiller]

I'm in my 50's. Have multiple ticks on my body over the years which were removed, but NONE have ever been dead.

Rubbing alcohol kills them pretty well. Keep a pill bottle full of the stuff and whenver one comes off, they go into the bottle. You generally want to keep them for while to esnure you haven't gotten anything, and by bad chance you catch something, you want to have the actual tick on hand that caused the problem IMO.

That's a good idea, I have plenty of empty pill bottles.

 

[stuckmotor]

If a little garlic is on a pizza or something I'll eat it but I don't seek it out. Large quantities disagree with me.

 

[stuckmotor]

Oosik,
These ticks are about the size of the head of a straight pin. I'm not familiar with pepper corn. We used to have only wood ticks then they reintroduced deer to our area and now we have deer ticks.

 

[stuckmotor]

I occasionally spray some ant and roach killer but usually wrap my hand and arm in a tall kitchen bag when I do. I don't think I've used any this year.