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Originally Posted by ManySpurs
(Post 3384368)
I find a few here and there on firearms deer. November deer have some. October deer seem to have more. Setting on stand in a warm October afternoon sun seems to be the worst of it for me. They attach themselves to ya, shed their wings, and work their way to the back of your neck and bite. They leave a small itchy knot that takes weeks to go away.:s8:
I've not had any on the NY deer I harvest in Chenango County though.:confused0024: |
The only thing worse than a tick is one with wings. Has anyone found a study where Lyme disease decreased as the herd was reduced. |
Originally Posted by bluebird2
(Post 3384970)
But keds don't transmit Lyme disease , so IMHO ticks are much worse. I'm still picking up at least one or two a day even though we don't have many deer.
Has anyone found a study where Lyme disease decreased as the herd was reduced. Since deer ticks favorite hosts are deer AND rodents, the size of deer herd often has little to no effect on the tick population. Favorable weather has much more to do with the good and bad tick years. http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...deer-tick.html |
Now that 's interesting since Lyme disease is often cited as a reason for deer/human conflict that is used to justify reducing the herd.
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i live in massachusetts and i have not found any ticks lately. but in the spring around turkey season there was a ton of ticks.
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Originally Posted by DougE
(Post 3384791)
The only thing worse than a tick is one with wings.Those deer keds creep me out.Nothin worse than that familiar feeling of one crawling up the back of your neck.I think they're wrosr in october as well.
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I have to agree
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ticks
3rd week of march until middle of june,then back again in october to jan.this is how i apply my tick meds to toby too.i dont use it in june,july, august.back on in middle of october.
you should see ticks on necks of rabbits.i bet 15 were 1/2 inch long on rabbit in my yard last week.no way i am eating a rabbit anymore after seeing that.:jaw: |
tons of deer ticks here... actually just got diagnosed w/ Lyme last week!!!! damn little bugs!! The size of a pin head can put a 260lb guy like me on my rearend!!!!
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I just went tromping around the Patuxent River State Park in MD yesterday doing some scouting and I was surprised to find that I had not gotten a single tick while I was out. I was trudging through some pretty thick brush at times too.
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