Tick warning

[46er]

Seems a lot of folks are predicting bad times in the woods this year. I have seen a shortage of spray permethrin in local shops, so I bought more of the clothing dip.

http://www.caryinstitute.org/press_2012-03-15.html

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/bracing-for-a-hungry-tick-season/

 

[Teegate]

So far I have found the ticks to be unusually light. Granted it is an early spring.

Guy

 

[Boyd]

I haven't seen too many down here yet either. But there was a huge one on my pants yesterday as I sat out in the woods. At first I thought it was a spider!

 

[dogg57]

Did you know that ticks have a two-year life cycle and do not die with the first frost? When the weather is consistently below 40 degrees, they settle down for a long nap, occasionally waking up on a warm day. This winter, there were 25 days that the temperature was above 50 degrees. A very wet fall and mild winter is expected to produce an increase in tick activity this spring. As spring roars in, with the sun ablaze, adult and nymph ticks are waking up. One tick may lay 2,000 to 3,000 eggs that will hatch in the spring, releasing an army of very hungry larval ticks searching for their first blood meal.

http://www.naturalawakeningscnj.com/SOM/April-2012/Tackling-Springtime-Ticks-and-Insects/

 

[Pine Baron]

Have been seeing them all through the winter, picking them off the dog mostly. They never seemed to have gone dormant this season.

I have two bites, now, from this past weekend that need to be checked out. (Dr. on Fri.) Looks like it could be a rough summer season.

John-

 

[MarkBNJ]

Ticks and chiggers are two species I would happily eradicate, and to hell with the circle of life. Throw stinkbugs in as well, simply because I'm going to hear "ooohhh, stinkbug, Daaaaaaddddd!" about 2000 times this summer.

 

[46er]

Add the illegal alien bugs that are killing trees to that list. I know of no reason any of them should be in the 'circle of life'.

 

[piker56]

I went out canoeing on Sunday. I don't even remember being on land, except launch and take out. Today I found a tick firmly embedded in my back. Varmint kong!

 

[Pan]

Lyme Disease: The Perfect Storm Is Headed Our Way

04/18/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/lyme-disease_b_1429984.html

 

[Boyd]

Yeah, it's the end of the world.

 

[piker56]

Once you've had Lyme disease, can you get it again, or are you immune.

 

[dogg57]

Once you've had Lyme disease, can you get it again, or are you immune.

Yes, Even if you've had Lyme disease before, you can get it again. I know this to be true with me."Chronic lyme disease" is a highly controversial subject

 

[piker56]

Yes, Even if you've had Lyme disease before, you can get it again. I know this to be true with me."Chronic lyme disease" is a highly controversial subject

I got it in the early 90's and have not suffered any long term symptoms. I guess I'll still need to be carefull.

 

[Adam Buchler]

Once you've had Lyme disease, can you get it again, or are you immune.

You build immunity after exposure but over time that can wear off. Same reason why you need to get booster vaccines every so many years.

 

[Adam Buchler]

I was out near hawkins bridge saturday....plenty of ticks there

 

[manumuskin]

They could make Lyme's vaccine out of my blood according to my wife.My mom once picked over 80 ticks off my hide in one day when i was 9.I am amazed at all the people I know who have it,none of them spend a great deal of time in the woods.I think I never got sick much as a kid or even now because I played in the dirt constantly as a kid and ate sammiches with dirty hands while in the woods.I innoculated myself.I used to be so knotty as a youngun I felt like a cheese grater.By the way does sasquatch get ticks?Did you check under hawkins for the Squatch?Perhaps they are the trolls of old before anyone knew of Squatch?

 

[46er]

I now get to take 3 weeks of doxycycline, 2 weeks of acidophilus and carry a nice bullseye on my back. Blood work in 8 weeks will tell the tale. The doc let me squash the blood sucker, no blood, good news The itch was driving me crazy, lower right shoulder, so I went to the doc. Glad I did.

 

[Pine Baron]

...so I went to the doc. Glad I did.

Ditto, 46er. Both bites I received were early stage Lyme. Caught it early enough, so I'm only on the doxy. It doesn't pay to put it off, that's for sure.

John-

 

[piker56]

I now get to take 3 weeks of doxycycline, 2 weeks of acidophilus and carry a nice bullseye on my back. Blood work in 8 weeks will tell the tale. The doc let me squash the blood sucker, no blood, good news The itch was driving me crazy, lower right shoulder, so I went to the doc. Glad I did.

46'er, when I got it in 1992, the treatment philosphophies(sp?) were not set. I took doxycyclene for 3 months. I can't complain, since I've suffered no symptoms since.

 

[46er]

One of the most current, and better sources of info, I have found on it. And it just go's to show, nothing is foolproof, not even permethrin.

http://www.columbia-lyme.org/