PSA: heavy tick season is here

[kansasdad]

With a warmer winter than average, tick season is looking to be a heavy one in many parts of the country. Understanding where ticks hang out, where they like to attach to your skin, and having plans for removal should they be attached should be a core knowledge of all outdoors folks.

Google AI provides these suggestions for reducing tick problems:

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[F250]

Sprayed all our hiking and turkey hunting clothes with permethrin yesterday. Ticks are really bad this year !!

 

[mtmiller]

I learned something cool today. If you find a tick before he is embedded, it just floats in the toilet (n=lots). Now if you find a tick stuck in your dog, but not yet bloated, he sinks in the toilet bowl (n=1).

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[howl]

Send your clothes to insect shield for treatment. Include socks. Problem solved.

 

[HuntTheUnknown]

Have seen plenty of ticks in southwest Montana this year. Good advice!

 

[redhaze]

There has been some discussion about the alpha gal reaction here in Texas from the Lone Star Tick- has a white spot on its back. The reaction makes you allergic to red meat. I thought this was BS, but it's for real according to some biologists .

 

[Nick87]

There has been some discussion about the alpha gal reaction here in Texas from the Lone Star Tick- has a white spot on its back. The reaction makes you allergic to red meat. I thought this was BS, but it's for real according to some biologists .

Seems to be a thing. We've been checking the kids religiously.

 

[buckbull]

I live in tick central. Ive most likely pulled 20 off me this year. Had two attached to my dick. My sister stopped counting ticks at 47 on my golden retriever his last bath. He is on credlio so they die soon after the bite. Ticks and these damn buffalo gnats are the worst part of living where I do.

 

[rogerthat]

Where’s Waldo?

 

[Southern Elk]

I was just talking to a friend last week who got the red meat allergy from one. So did his cousin. It makes him deathly sick. The first time he got sick with it was on airplane. I can’t imagine not being able to eat red meat.

 

[Jamen]

Probably 14 years ago or so i was out sweeping for leafy spurge beetles. I was walking up a hill back towards the truck. I must have walked through a nest. My jeans were brown. I ran up the hill so fast to the cemetery where the grass was mowed. Took my pants off right there and shook them out. there had to have been a few hundred on my jeans. Ever since then i treat my pants and carry a lint roller with me i roll my pants off before i get in my vehicle.

 

[Dave N]

There has been some discussion about the alpha gal reaction here in Texas from the Lone Star Tick- has a white spot on its back. The reaction makes you allergic to red meat. I thought this was BS, but it's for real according to some biologists .

There has been reports of them in Illinois.

 

[NEW PA MT MN]

They are horrible here in western Pa. Even after a very cold winter. I got one attached for less than 24 hrs and didn't think too much about it. Over a week later I was super sick for 4 days and finally went to the urgent care I got Anaplasmosis.

 

[buckbull]

There has been reports of them in Illinois.

I can confirm they are in west central illinois.