Hunting & Fishing God Damn Ticks

[armorpl8chikn]

Re: GOD DAMN TICKS

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UKDslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UKDslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I am very wary of arthropod vectors and their diseases, including ticks and fleas. No one seems to acknowledge human flea infections except with respect to Occupy Wallstreet, but I hope some doctors get their collective heads out of their butts, pull out their microscopes and realize this "head lice" and "bed bug" epidemic we are seeing may not be head lice and bedbugs after all - head lice don't have a larval (worm) stage, nor do adult lice or bedbugs have genal combs. The fact that most (over 90%) of our flea research comes from none other than the House of Rothschild (Miriam Rothschild, specifically), and she was the first one to associate fleas with their ability to spread plague, aka the Black Death that wiped out one third of Europe, doesn't bode well with my reality. Any doctors or entomologists notice all the "dandruff" and "lint" that will either stick to the tip of a ball-point pen or leap 3 feet from it? Put it under your microscope! If any entomologist have any theories please clue me in because I am too darn tired to sort this out; I just don't buy what we are being told... I just think bedbugs and head lice are red-herrings. Lyme is the tip of the iceberg. </div></div>

Yes, I am quoting myself. Human typhus outbreak noted in Orange County California this week, supposedly linked to fleas from feral cats. Typhus has a 10-60% mortality rate folks. I feared an epidemic of this type, or other flea-borne disease, and two days after my post here it is...starting.

New comments on Lyme from today's Medscape mentioned in the other Lyme thread. </div></div>

Holee piffer! And correct me if I am wrong, but Typhus can be carried by a person who shows no symtoms, and never is more than a carrier, and being highly infectious, infect almost everyone they come in close contact with.

This is disturbing news.

Plagues and pestilence.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

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We will all think bad news when a couple fast food workers become carriers....jeez UKD I would have almost rather not known this.....wasn't gonna sleep tonight anyway.

 

[c1steve]

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I got bit last weekend by a tick, first time in 18 years. No redness, but I am treating for the possibility of an infection.

 

[InsidetheStorm]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: armorpl8chikn</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UKDslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UKDslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I am very wary of arthropod vectors and their diseases, including ticks and fleas. No one seems to acknowledge human flea infections except with respect to Occupy Wallstreet, but I hope some doctors get their collective heads out of their butts, pull out their microscopes and realize this "head lice" and "bed bug" epidemic we are seeing may not be head lice and bedbugs after all - head lice don't have a larval (worm) stage, nor do adult lice or bedbugs have genal combs. The fact that most (over 90%) of our flea research comes from none other than the House of Rothschild (Miriam Rothschild, specifically), and she was the first one to associate fleas with their ability to spread plague, aka the Black Death that wiped out one third of Europe, doesn't bode well with my reality. Any doctors or entomologists notice all the "dandruff" and "lint" that will either stick to the tip of a ball-point pen or leap 3 feet from it? Put it under your microscope! If any entomologist have any theories please clue me in because I am too darn tired to sort this out; I just don't buy what we are being told... I just think bedbugs and head lice are red-herrings. Lyme is the tip of the iceberg. </div></div>

Yes, I am quoting myself. Human typhus outbreak noted in Orange County California this week, supposedly linked to fleas from feral cats. Typhus has a 10-60% mortality rate folks. I feared an epidemic of this type, or other flea-borne disease, and two days after my post here it is...starting.

New comments on Lyme from today's Medscape mentioned in the other Lyme thread. </div></div>

Holee piffer! And correct me if I am wrong, but Typhus can be carried by a person who shows no symtoms, and never is more than a carrier, and being highly infectious, infect almost everyone they come in close contact with.

This is disturbing news.

Plagues and pestilence.</div></div>


Sounds like the beginnigns of Zombie apocolypse. Ground zero = Florida.

 

[dogmessiah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SAKOstalker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the No. 1 selling deer and rabbit repellent in the country.
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Funny, in my neck of woods the #1 rabbit repellant for gardens is federal bulk pack.

 

[Jourdan_D]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kimber7wsm</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I doused all my turkey clothes with permethrin this spring. Not one tick or chigger all turkey season... </div></div>

Best stuff ever, you can even use it during deer season as it doesn't smell. Been ISO.g it for 4 years now and have been tick free for 4 years

you can buy premised stuff or for the dame amount buy it concentrated (eBay) and make gallons of it.

 

[BIGBOY1975]

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Let some of us coon-asses go up there were yall have a rabbit and deer problem it wont be a problem for long thats all im saying.

 

[L42a1]

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found one once on my shoe lace. Its the only one ive ever seen. killed it on the spot.

 

[SAKOstalker]

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ive been using this stuff and it works well............

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SAKOstalker</div><div class="ubbcode-body">try this

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[UKDslayer]

Re: GOD DAMN TICKS

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Infinity</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't mind the woodticks. It's those little fucking deer ticks that are bad. Got a bite on my ankle and sure as shit the little bullseye has formed. So now, I guess I may have Lyme disease. Anyone know how that progresses? I'm not one that goes to doctors much, I usually have to be hauled there. I'll take a pic tomorrow.

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Eek, hate those lil buggers. My pups both got lyme disease this past summer. I'm also not much for doctors. That said, I would highly recommend going to one. If you get it treated prior to major joint pain/damage, you won't have much to worry about. Best of luck... </div></div>

This is not the rash of Lyme (erythema migrans), this looks like Tunga penetrans (sand flea, jiggers).

 

[Jmilera]

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docycycline for 7 or 20 days just to be safe brother.

 

[vwhugger]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UKDslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Infinity</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't mind the woodticks. It's those little fucking deer ticks that are bad. Got a bite on my ankle and sure as shit the little bullseye has formed. So now, I guess I may have Lyme disease. Anyone know how that progresses? I'm not one that goes to doctors much, I usually have to be hauled there. I'll take a pic tomorrow.

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Eek, hate those lil buggers. My pups both got lyme disease this past summer. I'm also not much for doctors. That said, I would highly recommend going to one. If you get it treated prior to major joint pain/damage, you won't have much to worry about. Best of luck... </div></div>

This is not the rash of Lyme (erythema migrans), this looks like Tunga penetrans (sand flea, jiggers). </div></div>

When I pulled the critter off, it sure looked like a deer tick. I didn't get lyme disease unless it takes a long time for it to develop. If I had it, I would think that ring would just radiate out as the infection(?)spread. My guess is the trauma of the bite itself caused the ring with the dot inside. Apparentally, Deer ticks bite much deeper than regular Woodticks. (Dogticks) I did do the doxacycline thing. I have a hard knot there at the bite site. But it is slowly getting back to normal, I think.

 

[spradley]

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There is a test for Lyme Disease.. I took it years ago and was negative although I had some symptoms. Was pretty sure only a brown tick but had a weird ring around it and had achy joints. Ended up doing a round of Augmentin anyway.

The area where I pig hunt is eat up with Lonestar Ticks which aren't known for Lyme disease but these ticks will get very intimate with you. So far I've picked two off my junk. I'm 47 and this is a first. Had one in the crack of my ass at the top, one in the bend of my left arm and one on the back of my neck. These tick bites take a long time to heal and leave a hard knot as one described while healing but slowly get better.

 

[jasonahull]

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Thats something I hope to never experience.

 

[Longspring]

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I'm not sure what kind these are but they are everywhere I hunt this year . Elk opener is in 4 weeks and it's 104 . Fires burning everywhere . Not looking good . (election years right ?)

 

[InsidetheStorm]

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Looks like deer ticks to me!

 

[EBM]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Longspring</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm not sure what kind these are but they are everywhere I hunt this year . Elk opener is in 4 weeks and it's 104 . Fires burning everywhere . Not looking good . (election years right ?)

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These are dog ticks. Deer ticks are much smaller!

You know if there were 3 on top of your pants there were probably 12+ underneath! Yikes!!

 

[KYS]

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Ticks are really bad this year in KY mainly the dog ticks. I went out today for about 45 minutes to zero a rifle. I took a new in the grass for about 30 seconds to staple up a target and had one on my neck as soon as I got back in the UTV.

On another note, I did try that listerine trick. Took the original, brownish stuff and put it in a spray bottle. Sprayed my clothes down, boots, and hat. Not one tick or chigger the whole day. And damn, did I smell good!!

 

[inspcalahan]

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Had one on my balls last year - took a while to dig him out....still have the nightmares

 

[Possum]

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My uncle just got home from being airlifted to a major hospital because of complications brought on by tick fever... Bad buisness

Say what ya will, most of the fellas will wear panty hose in the field if it's tick season.

 

[spradley]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: inspcalahan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Had one on my balls last year - took a while to dig him out....still have the nightmares</div></div>

Let me guess, you never felt a thing?

I had one on the head of my junk then another smack in the p-hole.
very traumatic when you see that. lol

 

[Southbreeze]

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Now that when I say "phuk it" i'm going home!

That's like that poor bastard in Brazil that hop'd in the river to take a piss and that little eel thing swam up into his dick..........phuk that. I'm taking my toys and going home.

 

[Jmilera]

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Try eucalyptus extract, better than 100 deet

 

[MLC]

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I've been averaging 3-5 a day.

 

[bassani]

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thats why i dont do the woods in the summer time anymore

 

[jdr724]

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best thing I've bought in a while was the "original bug shirt" in the elite series camo and the zipper fly pants. Great ventilation on the jacket and I can say nothing will get through it.

Just wear a ball cap under it to keep the screen away from your face.

 

[c1steve]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't mind the woodticks. It's those little fucking deer ticks that are bad. Got a bite on my ankle and sure as shit the little bullseye has formed. So now, I guess I may have Lyme disease. Anyone know how that progresses? I'm not one that goes to doctors much, I usually have to be hauled there. I'll take a pic tomorrow.

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Untreated Lyme disease is horrible, almost as bad as untreated syphilis. The best place in the country to have your blood samples sent to is IgeneX.

You do have the bullseye rash, better keep track of this thing.

 

[Great-White Hunter]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jeff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ticks have been really bad here in Virginia this spring. Every time the dog comes back in from the back he has one or two on him</div></div>

I hear you, Jeff, I am in Midland and the ticks are horrible! I grew up in NY and never had a tick on me. Now, it is almost guaranteed that everytime I go into the woods, I will have a tick on me somewhere, unless I am wearing my tall rubber Lacrosse boots. Ticks won't climb up those.

 

[Killer Spade 13]

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It's not the deer ticks I mind, it's those little spawns of Satan that you cant even see that end up burrowing in your skin at your sock tops. your underwear seams, etc. GOD I hate those things.

You can't even see them on your body!!!!

 

[UKDslayer]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Longspring</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I'm not sure what kind these are but they are everywhere I hunt this year . Elk opener is in 4 weeks and it's 104 . Fires burning everywhere . Not looking good . (election years right ?)

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Dermacentor variabilis (dog tick)if the female scutum looked white and you are hunting east of Colorado, or Dermacentor andersonii (Rocky Mountain Wood Tick) if the female scutum looked more metallic and west of Colorado or Rocky Mountain States; female on left, males on right. These species cause Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, tularemia, tick paralysis, erlichiosis. This tick's scutum looks white => D. variabilis. Ixodes has a black scutum usually.

 

[wyosniper]

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I had rocky mountain spotted fever from them bastards, and i got really sick. I almost died, before they figured it out. I wouldnt mess around if you have any syptoms, go to the doctor, i still have problems from that one tick bite.

 

[BoilerUP]

April 7th...and I just pulled a nymph deer tick out of my 2 1/2 year old's ear.

Sonofabitches...

 

[Mr Flannel]

I have chronic lyme and the treatment I'm currently undergoing is a cast-iron bitch. Never been so sick. If you get a tick bite, you need to assume that the fucker has infected you with something. Treat early and you'll save yourself years of misery.

 

[mdharris68]

I had my first tick of the year today crawling on my neck. Had to use a magnifying glass to tell it was a tick. I got 6 days of turkey camp starting tomorrow to get some more. I guess I will bring some garlic along to keep them off me, and maybe some listerine in a spray bottle for extra insurance.

Make that two, one under waistband.

 

[nexusfire]

Just spray your Damn clothes

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[264win]

Another thought on prevention.
Several Biologists and Wardens who are around ticks often have suggested wearing a thin tight layer of clothing against your skin.
Underarmor or the like, also 100% Deet on cloths and eating Garlic.

 

[BillyGoatMachine]

Ticks and Poison oak, what the fuck did nature create them for??? I've been bit over 120 times by ticks and somehow managed not to get Lymes yet....... Had one on the tip of my pecker when I was two. Family joked that it was my first stiffy!