Michigan/Wisconsin wood tick doom

I was hoping that this long,bad winter would have killed most of them off!Guess not so I'm spraying myself and the dogs with DEET!

Horrible in Iowa too. WTF IS GOING ON

Hate these stupid things I've never seen so many...
this sucks

Snagged on off my schnoodle the other day, first time in forever. Mild winter overall, early spring and lots of water; mosquitoes will be bad in Wisconsin as well I suspect.

We had bats in out attic when we moved into a farm in Wisconsin.

Our cat did a spectacular job of getting rid of them.

She would sit on the roof of the porch, and when they came out of the eaves above her, she would leap into the air with her paws spread out to catch them in mid air.

If only there were cheap hand held video cameras back in the 70s.

Once the bats were killed off, we had a hell of a wood tick infestation. I kept a broom by the bed and I would wake at night to sweep half a dozen off the ceiling.

Same thing in the morning.

Thanks for reminding me.

The cat was a glorious mid-air dogfighter, by the light of the setting sun.

Indiana here. Last couple days Iv found two on me and a few on my dogs.

I'm not even near the woods.

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Southside Indianapolis in a neighborhood.

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Was at 1 of the field offices last week & the survey crew said the entomologists at the USDA lab told them that pyrethrum based repellent was much more effective against ticks than DEET.

yup...three so far here in Northern Illinois. More than all last year.

Peppermint oil - they hate it, so do mosquitoes.


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Last Edited by mopar28m on 05/09/2015 11:47 PM

Great. Fucking LYME DISEASE.

RIFE FUCKING MACHINE!!!

Thanks for the advice!

Thanks mopar
good god the bugs and ticks are bad this year in Michigan
we went for a 4 wheeler ride today and everytime we stopped
hordes of mosquitoes decended on us and I had 3 ticks on me.

That's definitely apart of the doom equation. So far replies from Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois all verifying this. Deer ticks are more rare and carry that disease with more frequency. Maybe more wood ticks equals more deer ticks? Probably not. I know several people with Lyme disease. I guess it remains to be seen if the rates of infection go up, but who the heck will show us that!

Because of all the snow it will be a bad year for ticks.
Snow acts as a blanket and insulates them from the cold.
If there was little to no snow it would still take weeks of sub zero weather to lower their numbers.
They are hardy creatures and built for survival.

One thing that will help to lower their numbers this spring and summer is dry weather.

^^^This^^^

Just make sure if you have cats to avoid using it on them or around them as it can make them very sick or even kill them.

I exterminate on the side here in Michigan and I can confirm the ticks are indeed crazy this year.

Your welcome

Southern Wisconsin checking in. I've had a tick on me every day for the past few weeks. Usually I feel them crawling and remove them before they bite.

The dogs are getting eaten alive. Every day I remove dozens of ticks from them.

Once you find one on you what is the best way to remove it?

The best way to kill them is just to rip them in half. Forget the lighter, toilet, paper towel or hornet spray. If you can stomach it, do it, and it's done.

Don't worry about that old tale of "don't let the head get stuck in you = infection". If it's in, just pull it out as low as you can. Add peroxide if it's deep. You'll be fine.

This is in the early stage of trials, but I have been using alcohol pads (buy at any pharmacy) Used by diabetics before an injection etc.

unfold the pad once, and surround the tick holding it gently. The tick will release (or loosen) its grip as the alcohol is toxic to it. A gentle tug and the tick comes off intact...head and all. I then swab the bite area...two birds one swab...also keeps my fingers clean.

I generally smash them and note the blood color. Also, if you happen to have some 33% H2O2 and a syringe, draw up some h2o2 and inject into the tick...it literally explodes! Great fun and quite satisfting.

I think there are vides of this on YT lol

Have no idea what you all are making such a big fuss about. I live in the woods and ride my atv almost every day in the woods and have not seen so much as ONE tick. For the slower people no, I am not in Finland.

please keep in mind ... if there is a red circle about an inch or two beyond the bite are YOU HAVE LYMES DISEASE ... don't wait for them to get a hold... go to the dr immediately and demand dexocycline ... he he won't prescribe it, and tells you your test results are neg ... know that 80 percent of the time they are FALSE NEG ... if you have the "bulls eye" there is NO DOUBT, you have LD ... and the sooner you take care of it, the better ... I spent six months in a wheel chair and two years battling the disease ... and it is extremely painful ... do your self a favor, its easy to cure, if you get to a dr NOW ... or suffer ... you can get doxyclycline from a "farm/feed store" if your dr won't give you a perscription, better than waiting and being sorry

LD has 75 symptoms ... all vague all random or so it seems, if you have 25 (or more) YOU KNOW, and can diagnose yourself, google it ... it is called "the silent pandemic" ... it won't kill you but you will wish you were dead (pets get it too)


obtw, they did a "field experiment" in MD a couple of years back and collected thousands of "wood ticks" not just deer ticks and 90 per cent of them were LD carriers


not fear mongering, trying to save you from a real bad experience ... that I though I could ignore

red ring ? you got it!

Last Edited by Sunny Daze on 05/10/2015 02:15 AM

Ticks are really bad in central BC this year my daughter has had 2 on her already .We rarely see them but there everywhere this year

Yes. Northeast Wisc here. We hate it, very stressful.

Tick Doom

Uncle joe, is that you?

Nasty lil buggers

You are fortunate, some of us are getting nailed by the little bloodsuckers.