Tick, chigger, mosquito... Ahh summer.
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Richard, where I saw it was actually at the cotton gin. They also sell all kinds of chemicals, too, and are frequently cheaper than the co-op. Like I said, I don't know what strenght it was and have never used any of it. I was there to buy diazinon. Is the permitherin any good?
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ERNIEB
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Pete, another bad thing is they can sure make some racket. I had 6, thanks to the varmits I'm down to 3. Every night before they roost they raise cane for about 30 minutes. On the plus side they are good watch dogs.
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dmccarty
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patrickg,
I have used all the stuff you have mentioned as well as sulpher. The little #$%^&*() still get me. I'll have to go check the percentage on the bottle of Permethrin but I used it per the instructions on the bottles and I saw ticks an chiggers walking up my legs just winking at me. Grrrrrr.....
I have tried Deet as well which helps somewhat but I really don't like putting something that can melt plastics on my body.....
What I do now is wear long pants that fall over the tops of my tall boots. I take an Ace bandage cut in half and wrap that around my boot tops and up my leg. I tuck my shirt into the pants. This prevents most of the ticks and chiggers from getting to me. One or two ticks might get through but I they seem to get me at the end of the day when I get out of the clothes. I have been using the new Ace bandages that are sticky. They work the first couple of days and then I have to pin them in place. I don't think they are as good as the old fashioned bandages since the news on seem to have a loose weave that the $%^&*( can get through.....
I have noticed as I open up the property and keep the grass/weeds cut low the number of ticks and chiggers has greatly dropped. Last year before I timbered part of the property I could walk up the road and at the end of the road I could pull 30 ticks off my legs. Now that the road is mowed I might see three our four a day.
I would be interested in a chemical or biological control to at least treat my yard to protect the kid.....
Later...
Dan
I have used all the stuff you have mentioned as well as sulpher. The little #$%^&*() still get me. I'll have to go check the percentage on the bottle of Permethrin but I used it per the instructions on the bottles and I saw ticks an chiggers walking up my legs just winking at me. Grrrrrr.....
I have tried Deet as well which helps somewhat but I really don't like putting something that can melt plastics on my body.....
What I do now is wear long pants that fall over the tops of my tall boots. I take an Ace bandage cut in half and wrap that around my boot tops and up my leg. I tuck my shirt into the pants. This prevents most of the ticks and chiggers from getting to me. One or two ticks might get through but I they seem to get me at the end of the day when I get out of the clothes. I have been using the new Ace bandages that are sticky. They work the first couple of days and then I have to pin them in place. I don't think they are as good as the old fashioned bandages since the news on seem to have a loose weave that the $%^&*( can get through.....
I have noticed as I open up the property and keep the grass/weeds cut low the number of ticks and chiggers has greatly dropped. Last year before I timbered part of the property I could walk up the road and at the end of the road I could pull 30 ticks off my legs. Now that the road is mowed I might see three our four a day.
I would be interested in a chemical or biological control to at least treat my yard to protect the kid.....
Later...
Dan
Dan, You may not be thrilled to hear this but spraying with Permethrin is one of the few tick control sprays I could find out about and have some confidence in the info source. From everything I could find out it is safe for people. The reason you don't put it on you instead of your clothes isn't really a safety thing, the stuff biodegrades in contact with your body and doesn't work.
We have a bumper crop of deer ticks this year (plenty of others as well). Might have something to do with the fair sized resident deer population. Just kidding, it is absolutely made much much worse by a high deer population. Still I can't bring myself to try to run the deer off.
Patrick
We have a bumper crop of deer ticks this year (plenty of others as well). Might have something to do with the fair sized resident deer population. Just kidding, it is absolutely made much much worse by a high deer population. Still I can't bring myself to try to run the deer off.
Patrick
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We've had no ticks or fleas either; wonder if it's because the fire ants ate 'em all./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I can broadcast fire ant bait a couple of times a year and you can't find a sign of a fire ant until the next rain and then mounds pop up everywhere. Last week I don't think there were any mounds anywhere, then Saturday and Sunday we got a little over 2.5" of rain and I treated 15 fire ant mounds today./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Incidentally, on Sunday (July 1), in one day, Dallas got 1.5 times the normal average rainfall for the whole month of July.
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Not sure of the %. I use it to spray the places to keep them off the animals and myself. We never seem to have too much of a problem, while everyone else does. This is from a local co-op here so not nationwide. You mix it at 6 ounces to the acre.
Not sure of the %. I use it to spray the places to keep them off the animals and myself. We never seem to have too much of a problem, while everyone else does. This is from a local co-op here so not nationwide. You mix it at 6 ounces to the acre.
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Richard,
Is that 6 ounces of Permetherin per acre? What do you mix it with and how much of the carrier per acre?
Thanks....
Dan
Is that 6 ounces of Permetherin per acre? What do you mix it with and how much of the carrier per acre?
Thanks....
Dan
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Patrick,
I'll try to get a heavier percentage of Permerthin and try it. The stuff I bought at REI was useless. I put it on per the instructions and let it dry over night and I could not tell the difference. Ticks and chiggers were climbing up my legs like happy little campers....
DEET is the product I'm leary of. It certainly works in higher concentrations but I have been in swamps in Floriday at night and two of three different sprays did not do anything to keep the squeeters at bay. There was a bottle that one of the guys had from working a job at Turkey Point, a Nuke Plant, that worked best. I hope it worked because of the DEET concentration and not from something else! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I thought Permethrin is what is in the 30 day contact killer we put on the dogs for fleas/ticks. Or is it the other P chemical....
Later...
Dan
I'll try to get a heavier percentage of Permerthin and try it. The stuff I bought at REI was useless. I put it on per the instructions and let it dry over night and I could not tell the difference. Ticks and chiggers were climbing up my legs like happy little campers....
DEET is the product I'm leary of. It certainly works in higher concentrations but I have been in swamps in Floriday at night and two of three different sprays did not do anything to keep the squeeters at bay. There was a bottle that one of the guys had from working a job at Turkey Point, a Nuke Plant, that worked best. I hope it worked because of the DEET concentration and not from something else! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I thought Permethrin is what is in the 30 day contact killer we put on the dogs for fleas/ticks. Or is it the other P chemical....
Later...
Dan
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One of the most effective methods of controlling the chigger and mosquito population without chemicals, is the introduction of bats. A friend put up nesting boxes near his ponds (read mosquito hatchery) and you hardly notice any insects after dark. He claims a single bat will eat 1/2 its body weight in insects nightly. I don't know if that's true, but I do know he doesn't have chiggers and mosquitos.
Oh yeah, he got the plans for the nesting box from a bird house book, very simple to construct.
Oh yeah, he got the plans for the nesting box from a bird house book, very simple to construct.
