Tick prevention

[John_Mc]

I haven't found any 7%, will 10% work? Tractor Supply and amazon have that.

Yes. You can also but stronger and just dilute it with water.

Note that in liquid form, permethrin is highly toxic to cats - even just getting it on their skin can cause them problems. Once dry, it does not seem to be a problem for them, though I would not want them eating the cotton balls.

 

[rontaki]

I think the PC term for chiggers is chigros.

Google's AI Overview:


Chegro primarily refers to a village in the Giridih district of Jharkhand, India, or a synonym for a chigger mite. The village has a population of 2,919 (as of 2011), while "chegro" also refers to parasitic larval mites. Additionally, it is used as a term for a specific housing firm in Nigeria.
Key Information about Chegro, Jharkhand:

• Location: Dumri Block, Giridih district, Jharkhand, India.
• Railway Station: Chegro (CEME) is a 2-platform station.
• Population: 2,919 residents across 482 families (2011 census).
• Demographics: Literacy rate was 64.65% in 2011, with a male literacy rate of 81.07% and female literacy rate of 48.01%.

Other Meanings:

• [Chegro/Chigger (Biology)]: Red parasitic larvae of mites (genus Trombicula) that cause skin irritation.
• [Chegro Homes (Nigeria)]: A housing developer targeting Nigerians at home and in the diaspora.
• [Derogatory Term]: A term historically used in borderlands to refer to lower-class Mexican migrants.

 

[DarkBlack]

1975 - Lyme Connecticut... huge outbreak of what was originally thought to be early-onset arthritis, identified by the following year to be a new disease transmitted by ticks. Hence the name, and the rest is history.

It was later proven that it has existed for thousands of years, all over North America, but was only first-identified in Lyme CT. Throughout the late 1970's, knowledge and awareness of this disease was mostly isolated to CT and NY, along with one or two doctors operating in MI and WI. During the 1980's, knoweldge of it spread.

Several write-ups, you could read on this the rest of your life and never run out of material, but this is the first one that popped up in Google: History of Lyme Disease - Bay Area Lyme Foundation

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