tick decline
 

Anyone notice this.I had ticks on me during early fishing season, But lately I have not had any on me. Anyone else notice this in your area?

I am still picking them off me at least once a week.

Have only seen a few "wood ticks" and one deer tick this year. Don't much miss 'em, so far. ;O)

I haven't seen wood tick for a long time. They are the bigger brown ones? I don't either just notice a decline in them last month.

Maybe they all left because of most of pa sportsmans are bitter.

Maybe not bitter,but just don't give the !@#$ no more. You know what I mean. Kill everything and lets see what happens down the road.

Maybe no deer = no ticks also as somes reasoning on here.

no i think we leave a bitter taste in there mouths

You guys ever hear of deer keds? I, along with others, have noticed that as we cut the herd in these NC counties, that the swarms of deer keds that have attacked us in October have increased tenfold. Don't know if there's a connection or not. But I hate the damned things.:mad1:

Almost every deer we've killed around my place in the past 10 years, has been full of them things. Seems like the colder it is in firearms season, the more of them there are on the deer?

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.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.

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.

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.

Those thing' are one ugly mother f&^$!:s8:

I have to agree

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!!!!

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.

I wasn't so lucky, I dug one out of my back last night. The first one to bury himself in me this year. Looked like one of those brown dog ticks. I didn't get lyme yet, for as much as I get bitten, I know my luck is going to run out.

That sounds like quite an accomplishment. I have trouble scratching my back , no less digging out a tick.

An article in our local paper said that the wet weather resulted in a significant increase in the number of ticks ,but I have experienced a significant decrease.

You have a PM.:patriot:

Ok 1 more time.get some SAWYER PERMETHRIN.spray everything let dry go hunt or just walking come home put in bag for next time.no more ticks.i spend alot of time in the woods and this stuff works great just stay up wind when you spray it

Yep Permethrin is what you want to use. Ticks are on the rise in my area. I hate em

.....Haven't read anything here but the comments on this page, but I'll add my $.02.....Seems to me that earlier on in the spring, ticks were just as abundant as ever, but recently I've noticed a substantial decrease in them. The Lab is just not coming home with nearly as many as he usually does after a romp or two in the fields out back, and I'm not seeing them on myself much either. Hey.... believe me, I'm sure not complaining about it......

Not really, Just reach back over your shoulder. grab the tick with your fingers and yank him out.:s6:

they will return in about middle of october and sometimes in jan on warm days.

Where do you suppose the ticks went?Did they head south with the mountain lions.

Doug....Remember several years ago when I was told that the deer were rounded up and taken "south" for the winter?? I did a little investigating and found out it was Curwensville. I assume it's the same for the ticks...:s1::s1::s1:.......

Hey Sproul....I haven't been around here for awhile....Glad to see ya back!!!!!

someone said they saw meet walking out of kettle creek like MCARTHUR saying ,I SHALL RETURN:biggrin:if not for great bunch of guys and gals, yes i had few ladies PM when i was gone i would not be back.hmmmmmmmmmm,ladies maybe i will try it it again:jaw:no,i dont think so:eek2: