Ticks
Man, ticks are a real problem around here this year. Connie and I can't walk across the yard without picking up at least one or two of them. Usually we can feel them walking on us and send them to tick heaven on the express train, but every now and again one will latch on trying to get a blood meal. We have to do self inspections nearly constantly. Worries me with all the pathogens those suckers (literally) will carry. But so far (knock on wood) neither Connie and I have come down with any known tick borne illness.
Just a few minutes ago I was in the bathroom and noticed a medium sized one waving it's "arms" at me, like "Hey! Come here! I want to talk to you!" Then I saw two more really tiny ones walking across the linoleum. Guess they are hanging onto our clothes and drop off when we change for the night. Damn, I'm itching just thinking about them. It's not just here on our acreage, as a friend of ours about 10 miles away mentioned that he is having the same problem. Gotten to where he doesn't even want to go out of the house. Yeah, life in the country with nature all around. The bloom doesn't smell quite so good on this rose like it used to. I used to think that I liked just about everything nature wise except squirrels. And fire ants. Oh yeah, mosquitoes and yellow flies. The list just keeps getting longer and longer. So tell me, how hard would it have been for God to make ticks not attracted to human beings? :shrug01: |
Hey Rich try chickens. We moved 2yrs ago to a more rural house & got some chickens. I think we found one tick last yr.
Not sure if you need anymore animals but they eat a lot of bugs! Good luck Chris |
Do what the military does and get some of your clothes treated with permethin. Like this place https://www.insectshield.com/ISYOC.aspx
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You would think as much as I sweat when working outside in the heat that any ticks on me would just drown. :D |
I have found four ticks on my person already this spring, and two had started to dig in. Got three in one day, walking a wooded stream bed for few miles, then got the last one in my mom's yard. All Lone Star Ticks. Always used to just be Wood Ticks, now it might be anything.
Can't wait for the chiggers to get active, take your mind off the ticks... |
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Right now, feeding the hawk has risen to the top of the list. I actually feel guilty when I see him up in a tree scouting the ground for an offering and I wasn't able to do my part. |
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Back when we used to have the mouse colony, I was feeding a small owl that was hanging around. He liked the fuzzies I would throw on the ground towards him when he sat in the tree to watch me. One day I gave him a small hopper, and he struggled to fly away with that one. Never saw him again afterwards, for some reason. It's kind of difficult to get the hawk to associate free meals with me, however, since I have to shoot the squirrels when they are around and he just shows up later on. But I am thinking that he does associate the sound of a gun shot as a sort of dinner bell. I don't know what he thinks when I am down on my shooting range sighting in guns or doing target practice, however. Probably disappointed to find no squirrels for him, I guess. And perhaps thinking I lost my touch with the gun, too. :o |
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