TICKS

[koolma_k]

@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:

Bong ticks are lazy in this weather. They prefer hot a humid over cold and wet. They are there, but they have not come out in force yet. The weather is supposed to be cool the rest of the week, so I’d guess there won’t be many ticks camping with you all this year. The recent frost may have helped a lot too.

heehee… Bong ticks are lazy… I bet they still like cheetos though 😈 😆 (sorry, I couldn’t resist!!!)

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Bong ticks. Hmm. Lazy and like cheeto’s. Hmm. Ain’t goin there. 😆

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

OK now they have feathers and are taking over the world. 😯 (see thread stealers)

[koolma_k]

@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:

OK now they have feathers and are taking over the world. 😯 (see thread stealers)

(pages 1698 and 1699 so far… just giving the pages because they go so fast on that thread 🙂 )

[Todd300]

Picked up my first ticks of the season while getting an FTF. Amazing that I found over 150 caches in the last couple months and didn’t get one confirmed tick. Luckily neither was embedded into me and I just flicked both off when I was outside.

[elfdoctors]

Tick populations are always highest in May (so it always seems to generate a lot of complaints).

However, my impression, both from my experiences out in the field as well as seeing how many people are coming in to the office with tick bites, suggests that this is a mild year for ticks.

[brkster]

Not sure if it’s a mild season, or the Deep Woods Off I’ve been using is working, but after visiting areas of Bong and a few other places around Waterford and Mukwonago in the last week, I came out tick-free.

[Scrappy Scout]

Does anyone knoe how long before syptoms can start of lyme disease. The reason I ask is I pulled a Deer tick out of my knee on Saturday and the area around where I pulled it out is soar. when I went to go kneel down today to do something it started to get soar again. I have a call out to my doctor but i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem or know what it could be.

Scout
Kevin

[-cheeto-]

@Scrappy Scout wrote:

Does anyone knoe how long before syptoms can start of lyme disease. The reason I ask is I pulled a Deer tick out of my knee on Saturday and the area around where I pulled it out is soar. when I went to go kneel down today to do something it started to get soar again. I have a call out to my doctor but i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem or know what it could be.

Scout
Kevin

I had an embedded deer tick last year on my belly. It actually ended up getting infected but I lucked out on the lyme’s disease. Perhaps your “entry wound” is showing signs of a small infection starting? I am no doctor but I wouldn’t jump to lyme’s disease right away.

Did you get all parts of the tick out of your body?

[Team Vaughan]

I was just recently diagnosed with Lyme disease this spring well before the ticks were out. My doctor told me it could take over a year in some cases before any symptoms are noticed. Funny thing is I didn’t remove any in bedded ticks from me last year.

All you need is a quick blood test at the doctors office.

Chris

[jerrys dad]

I was diagniosed within a week. I had the red spot forming in the area. The doctor did the blood test then pills for a month.

[Scrappy Scout]

Well kids i have an update and Cheeto you are right my doctor said that the area is just infected and that gave me 2 pills to take and thats it then she said wait and see if i get any syptoms then call but as of right now it looks to be infected no parts left in just a small infection. YA!!!!!

[bartrod]

I pulled tick #19 of the season off of me today…two of which were deer ticks…had lyme’s disease several years ago…nasty! I’ve never seen them as bad as they are this year…gotta check myself every time I leave the house it seems 🙁

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[Team Black-Cat]

I stopped at a cache today with my mother. It was a short, .2 mile hike on a grassy two-track. We had to stop every hundred feet or so to pull off a dozen or so ticks each time. The tick count for that single cache was well into the hundreds.
Ticks never botered me too much before, but there are way too many of them this year.

[bartrod]

I collected ticks #22-32 today 🙁

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

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