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socceronly
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 07:23pm
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I went to view a property a couple of days ago, which the (selling) agent described as a tick farm.
She said she has to pull several off her dog every day they walk the path behind the property.
Insisted I check myself after walking the property.
Have to say this creeped me out a bit.
I know they have exploded in the last decade. Not sure what to make of it.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 08:31pm
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All I can say is to be diligent in your daily body tick search and removal, as Lyme disease can be terrible. I've been there and was lucky that nothing has shown up since the bullseye red ring showed up, and I received a prompt course of antibiotics. It's been 8 years.
FWIW, if that property has a large number of ticks, I would think they are all over that neighborhood.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 09:11pm
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They run in cycles around here, some years are terrible. One walk between us 2 and the dog we pulled over 200, and we had stayed on the truck path, not out in the bush! We didn't move and that seemed to have been the worst year, but it gives one pause for thought about an area.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 18 Apr 2025 08:26am
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At my house they can be bad. I can tell you though that lowering the rodent population and useing "tick tubes" helped a ton and has been helping from when I started doing this 3yrs ago.
Tick tubes are just permethrin coated mouse nest material. They find it, make nests from it and in turn it kills ticks. Way cheaper to make at home with permethrin spray vs buying tick tubes.
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spencerin
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 08:05am - Edited by: spencerin
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I've owned my property in southern IN for 10 years now. As gcrank1 stated, it seems like they run in cycles, but who knows what causes those cycles. I thought it might be that abnormally cold winters keep the following year's population down, but I've seen mild winters followed by what still seems like lower tick counts. I do know that they like tall grass and not short grass, and I don't remember picking up any ticks from the acre area that I keep mowed around my cabin.
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 08:13am
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In MN we have both deer ticks (bad) and wood ticks (mostly benign). We have a lot of them as well but you just kinda deal with them… pull a few off every day at the end of the day- not much else you can do… springtime is the worst and it calms down quite a bit in summer.
I am curious… what does the makeup look like across the rest of the country? We have MOSTLY wood ticks… but there are a few deer ticks sprinkled in… probably like 1/25 or so are deer ticks.
Nobody LIKES ticks but they’ve never really bothered me (wood ticks that is…)
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 10:29am
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NM has 5 types of ticks, including deer ticks. My part of NM does not have a huge problem like PA, NY, NJ... I believe the low precipitation helps. I think AZ & UT have none for the most part.
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 12:21pm
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Quoting: MtnDon My part of NM does not have a huge problem like PA, NY, NJ... I believe the low precipitation helps
Yes, my understanding is they love humidity. We have quite a few ticks around our farm in PA. Not many up at the cabin way up in NY near Lake Ontario.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 02:13pm
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Where our cabin is in south/central CO, no ticks to my knowledge. Here in north central AZ, nope, none here. Can't say I miss them
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2025 04:57pm
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When my oldest g-son was about 8 he asked," gramps, why did God make ticks and mosquitoes?"
I had no answer 
Decades later I still dont
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Liam2018
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 03:29am
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I guess nowadays you can't really avoid this problem if you choose to live next to nature, as the winters are getting warmer, their population tends to increase.
Best advice I can give is to get into the habit of checking yourself after every walk in the forest/field, get the tick-borne encephalitis vaccine, and get your pets a flea/tick collars.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 09:07am
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We had 2 dogs that reacted badly to the anti-tick meds and that is not an uncommon thing! Some even die; check it out online.
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fitzpatt
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 11:08am
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socceronly
Can you confirm whereabouts that property is? I'm near Maynooth and haven't seen a lot of ticks over the years, but am worried and more cautious now that my young son is with me on the property.
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DRP
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 06:58pm
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I'm knocking on wood and not saying boo, I haven't been hit yet this year. Last year I was buying doxy on the black market. I'm in the southern Blue Ridge, warm, very humid and lush, and overrun with deer. Those of you with real lyme/tick borne illness problems, what is your deer situation like.
The latest here is anaplasmosis (sp?) in everyone's dog. Funny how they catch it in our critters and reliably miss it in us  .
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2025 08:27pm
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I was 'ticked' in Nova Scotia. I believe the tick landed during a morning hike. I didn't discover it until evening and it had feasted well. Two weeks later the red bulls eye showed up. All is well now though.
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treed
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# Posted: 29 Apr 2025 06:46pm
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I have for many years used permethrin spray on all our outdoor clothes. It has made a huge difference.
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 10:39am
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Just pulled this out of my leg. Red swollen itchy spot and black dot flat and sunken in. Tick? 15 years of cabin life in the woods, first time.
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DRP
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 01:10pm
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Yup. It looks like you got him out intact.
My wife went to the doc after we both failed and had a deeply embedded one removed this week. She's on 2 weeks of Doxycycline. There are at least 3 different, nasty, tick borne illnesses circulating around here now. I'm not a fan.
For Lyme, look for a bullseye rash around the bite. Doesn't hurt to get a pic of the bite now and if needed, later. Not everyone presents that tho, don't forget you got bit.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 02:20pm
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Might want to document a deep bite as to when and were, etc in case of issues later
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 03:04pm - Edited by: paulz
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Thanks guys. Skins clearing, still a black spot hopefully just a scab. Itching subsiding. I’ve done a bunch of knocking around in my woods, with buddy the dog, no ideas on location. We did run a rope down the side of the hill, my plan is to hook pulleys top and bottom with a bucket so I can haul tools up to the cabin, instead of forgetting until I’m up there as usual. Might have got it then. Nothing on Buddy.
DRP, look at your wood thread. Still wondering about iron wood from Hawaii.
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Desim
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 07:18pm
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Here in Western Tennessee they are still bad. We have a lot of Alpha-gal syndrome. I have a friend with it and it can be life changing!
I use permethrin spray and have been ok to date.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 19 Apr 2026 09:35pm - Edited by: darz5150
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I guess I'm lucky. Haven't gotten many ticks on me for 20+ years living in the woods.
Here's a little chart/info thingy I keep on the fridge.
Might be helpful.
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philpom
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2026 12:36pm
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I'm not a fan of ticks at all. Every once in awhile yhry had been pretty bad. Step out of the truck to open the gate and get 2 or 3 that fast.
Keeping the grass cut short helps, long white socks makes it easy to spot them early. A few years ago I started treating the yard with either granules or garden end bug spray. 1 treatment a year and out tick problems are largely solved. It's a necessary evil in my mind. Arkansas?
We deal mostly with the Lone star tick and American dog tick.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2026 08:03pm - Edited by: toyota_mdt_tech
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Stay away from tall grass and vegetation, if you must go through, push it down on its side with your leading foot so its flat on the ground when you walk through it. To get an idea how bad the ticks are, take a white sheet, spread it over and area and then lift it up, easy to see them on the white sheet. Give you an idea how thick they are.
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paulz
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# Posted: 26 Apr 2026 08:25am
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Quoting: toyota_mdt_tech Stay away from tall grass
Ok. I’m a bit paranoid lately, I do have some tall grass this year, unusual for my place. I don’t venture into it but the dog does (and chews it). Is that where they are more so than in trees, firewood piles, dead branches and such?
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