Freezing ticks
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 310
Freezing ticks
Where I hunt there are a lot of ticks this year. Does anyone think that what I am doing to try to keep the little buggers out of the house will work?
When I get home from a hunt my clothes immediately go into a bag and into the freezer for a couple of days. I'm thinking that the extended deep cold will kill any ticks that I have hanging on. Will it work?....don't know, but at least they aren't free roaming around the house.
Mitch
When I get home from a hunt my clothes immediately go into a bag and into the freezer for a couple of days. I'm thinking that the extended deep cold will kill any ticks that I have hanging on. Will it work?....don't know, but at least they aren't free roaming around the house.
Mitch
#2
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 21
Hmmm.. There shouldn't be any ticks out during this time of the year. At least in Wisconsin there's not. Not sure what the forecast is like in VA. Fire will definitely extinguish these little leachers but I am not entirely sure about the deep freeze method (probably have a method to survive the cold winters?).
I usually wash my clothes and usually anything living within my clothes dies off. Learned my lesson a few years ago.
I usually wash my clothes and usually anything living within my clothes dies off. Learned my lesson a few years ago.
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Posts: 819
I'm not so sure. they seem to winter well outside in the northeast. I guess snow cover protects them from freezing hard and dying. They dont seem to have too much of a problem with them in canada, so maybe it would kill them.
I hope you let them thaw out before you put em back on!!!
I hope you let them thaw out before you put em back on!!!
#6
I always believed that tics are not active in the winter until I read a study by Ball State University on the tics native to Indiana. That study says they are active all winter long but not like during the spring summer or fall. They are not as active and do not have grass and thick weeds to climb on to but they stay pretty much on the ground under the layers of fallen leaves brush and other compose. Another myth according to them which is not true is that tics leap onto you from trees and tall bushes. They climb onto tall grass and other cover and when you brush by they hitch a ride. I don't spray my hunting cloths during the late fall or winter but I still check over everything when I get home outside on the back patio area.