The ticks were bad today
 

Took the horse out on a little 4 hour ride today at the local gamelands. Saw four deer, no bear or turkey. The ticks were just awlful, I was riding along the dirt road with short grass on the edges. Through the coarse of the ride I pulled 15 ticks off the horses legs, I came home and showered and found one in my hair and another on the bottom of the tub. I am used to finding one or two, but seventeen, thats bad.

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17 wow! Thats a bad day. I'm just wondering how in the heck you can find those little things on a horse. Are horses susceptable to lyme disease?

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He has white hair and they didn't dig in yet. I thinkhorsescan get lyme disease. It spoiled the whole day jumping off and looking for the little devils. I seen one on a blade of grass. They hang there and when they feel movement or vibration they throw their legs out to catch on to what ever goes buy. I hate them.

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Now every little itch I feel I think its a tick crawling on me. [:@]

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been there! done that! That's an awful feeling![:@]

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yes they are but local vet says most cant afford the treatment for horse.i read article somewhere on this.my sisters dog ran down a rabbit today, i ran after the dog yelling to stop but the rabbit went into a net and went into shock.

i thought i could hold it and try to help ,i could not believe there was 9 huge ticks on that rabbits neck.

anyone that eats a rabbit in my opinion is not good.

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Ok tell me Y the ticks are so bad of late.I would like to see if any of you have the same idea i have.Later on i will post what i think it is from

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dont know but everyone here in pa. is blaming PENNSTATE FORESTRY for the bug problems we are having.they did admitt they released BUGS to improve forest.

dont know if tick was released but a few others were.i see a lawsuit soon against PENNSTATE FORESTRY for damage these bugs are doing to homes,many are getting real mad over bug problems here in pa.

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The immature stages are frequently found on small rodents such as meadow mice and occasionally is found on birds and small animals.These are a few ways that Ticks expand their range.[/align]

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I was wrong, it wasn't 17 ticks it was 18. I just found one aroundthe horsesgroin area sucking blood since last sunday. Disgusting.

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I put a buddy on one of my stands last fall where I arrowed a 6-pointer and he came back with ticks all over him.
To this day he still calls it my tick stand and laugh about it a bit.
But truth be told we pulled over 100 ticks off of him!!! No joke, it was disgusting.

The highlight, was my buddy with his shirt off, at the truck, on the side of the road.
and me pulling 7 or 8 off him already in-bedded on his hairy WHITE back.
It must have looked like broke-back hunting!!![8D] Yikes!
They give me the hegee-jebees, and I think I would rather bump into a 1/2 dozen snakes!

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very sad on horses.my vet said its a major problem with horse.cant imagine pulling a tick off a horses pee pee.

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i was turkey hunting, i fell asleep and awaken at around 9 am.i felt something on my neck, boy, it was bunch of ticks.i ran down robinson run hollow in youngwomans creek ,accross highway and took my clothes off and went into creek.

i looked up and there was FISH WARDEN.he said, SIR CAN I ASK YOU WHAT THE H ARE YOU DOING?

i said i got bit by a bunch of ticks.he then asked if i needed a ride to hospital.this was 20 years ago and i still laugh about it when i tell story.

somehow we have got to put pressure on our legislators to get this problem corrected, its killing tourism all over the northeast.

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Actually it was on the inside part of theleg up under there. they can usally knock flies and other bugs off between their hind legs with their tail. The back of their neck in the mane is were I find themdug in also.

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very sorry to hear that PATS.i read something about it on the pennstate topic about woman who has 5 horses.she sprayed the whole area where horses walk and play but cost her small fortune.

i think pennstate may soon be sued if they dont find way to stop these bug problems.they released many of thesebugs,these APHIDS ,i went into my attic and i bet there is 5000 dead aphids in there and smell was awful.they are all thru my insulation in attic.most people dont crawl into there attic like i do,so they dont know what is there.

if they did ,i bet they would freak out.

state needs to pay for having your home sprayed each year, they released the APHIDS.funny not 1 aphid is in woods they are all in our homes.:)

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If you are talking about stink bugs they are not aphids. You could have 10 million aphids in your attic and they wouldn't produce an odor because they are so small and would simply dry out. Stink bugs were not introduced by PS so they don't have to worry about being sued.

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[quote]ORIGINAL: bluebird2

I have a newspaper article laying around here some were about them, We can thank China for them.

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Funny stuff.
I went out to that spot today and about 50 ticks later...
Although I did have 4 grass snakes make me jump a bit, still like them better!

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i called them LADY BUGS and people said,SPROUL THEY ARE APHID BUGS,now you call them STINK BUGS.:)

what the h are they .pennstate did release those bugs whatever proper name is.remember when i said they dropped deer out of helicopters to feed the fishers here in my area, trust me, PENNSTATE FORESTRY RELEASED THEM.

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You did not call them Lady bugs in your post, you called them aphids. Lady bugs and stink bugs are not aphids.

Do you know who we can sue for introducing multiflora rose?

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Did PS release them in NY as well?
Cause we have them here.

Of course you have proof you can post - I have internet trust issues.

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Penn State could have released them but they wouldn't be the first

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/lbeetle/

Apparently those stinky Asian ladybugs have been in the US since 1916.

When they get in an attic, it can be a real pain. The lodge where we stay in Illinois has had big problems with them. On warm October days, the owner will fill his 5 gallon shop vac with em daily. They do smell awful too. kind of like damp moldy dirt

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Ticks are lthe worst I have ever seen them in Delaware, I do a 30 min walk everyday in a woods, have to stay on the groomed trails and douse myself with Perm and cutter for mosquitos each time before I walk....

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I pick up at least 3 or 4 ticks every time I pick strawberries even though I put on bug spray. AS yet . I haven't been bitten this year, but I have been bitten at least 30-40 times over the last 10 years. When we were kids we never had to worry about ticks, but back then we didn't have any deer.

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The ticks I am experiencing are the wood ticks not the deer ticks, and they seem to resist the permonone....

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Since we just had one of the wettest Springs on record they're verybad here so far. Yesterday I walked to the end of my back yard and back, a distance of a little over250 yards, and found six ticks on me. Time to break out the Ortho Max! [:@]

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The ticks are bad and have been bad for a long time.Like coyotes,they've been here for decades and no one released them.Why would anyone release something that really serves no purpose?For the life of me,I could never find any use for ticks or deer flies.Horrible creatures

I'd like to see them disposed of but I don't know how you could kill them without killing other beneficial bugs.

I have horses andfrom what I understand,they can get lymes disease.However,I know alot of people that have horses and I don't know anyone who's horse ever contracted it.Regadless,I don't like ticks crawling on my horses anymore than I like them crawling on me.The solution is permethrin.I buy it in the form of permanone and spray my cloths wth it.For my horses,I buy it in a concentrated form and spray them down whenever we take them on trail rides.Two weeks ago,we did about 15 miles in elk state forest and neevr had a tick on us or the horses.You can also buy fly spray that has 5% permethrin in it.It works.

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proper name of these bugs are called BOXFELLER,i hope that i heard that right.no, i called them aphids in post, on street i called them LADY BUGS.

as for rose, no i never heard of pennstateputting them out.

also i just did talk to PENNSTATE AND THEY DID RELEASE lady bugs AND Asian bettles. they said they did not release the BOXFELLER.

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I don't know the exact name for ladybugs.I do know that they skink so in my book,stinkbug is an acceptable name.

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i pulled a section of my siding off and out fell 100 BOXFELLERS,i hope that is correct name ,maybebluebird can correct me on that.:)

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Box Elder bugs

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that sounds better than BOXFELLER:)

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The gypsy moths have done more damage than any and all others combined.[:@]

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Box Elder is in the North American Maple family.....

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very true and more damage than a deer,i feel.

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The chestnut blight had a much more negative effect than the gypsy moth.

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Yet you are the only one around that can document the demise of deer in 2F and 2G before the PGC had a chance to destroy the herd as the hunters of PA have grown to expect. What were the reproductive rates of those days?
At the time of the chestnut blight deer numbers were very low, maybe lower than even today.;)

The enemies of deer are like the sun rise. new and brighter everyday.[8D]

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About the same as they are today. In other words, the herd was just as healthy even though there were a lot more deer.

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Theres a product out called Bug Stop that will clean the ladybug/beetle/stinkbug/box fellers etc's clock. Spray it around your windows in the fall before they show up... kills em like a 12 gauge kills ground squirrels. :D