The Self-Cloning Longhorned Tick Has Been Found in NC

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The Longhorned tick was found recently on an opossum in Polk County, in western North Carolina along the South Carolina border. It's about 90 minutes west of Charlotte.
The females reproduce without a male, says the N.C. Department of Agriculture. That means a single female can create a colony anywhere in the state. "It is an aggressive biter and frequently builds intense infestations on animals causing great stress ... and blood loss," said a statement issued by Michael Neault of the N.C. Department of Agriculture.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article214748110.html

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Damn, not another one. Hate them critters. Had Rocky Mountain Spotted fever about 16 years ago. Diagnosed with Lyme last year. Had to replace the tie rod link on my tractor last week, in the field where I bent it. Even put a rubber mat down but had pulled 20+ crawling on me by the time I was finished. Mainly dog ticks, but found 2 of the deer ticks bit in later. Back of the knee and belt line. Need to get a flock of guinea fowl to turn loose!
 
Damn, not another one. Hate them critters. Had Rocky Mountain Spotted fever about 16 years ago. Diagnosed with Lyme last year. Had to replace the tie rod link on my tractor last week, in the field where I bent it. Even put a rubber mat down but had pulled 20+ crawling on me by the time I was finished. Mainly dog ticks, but found 2 of the deer ticks bit in later. Back of the knee and belt line. Need to get a flock of guinea fowl to turn loose!

FIRE!!! FIRE is the only sure FIRE method......
 
Damn, not another one. Hate them critters. Had Rocky Mountain Spotted fever about 16 years ago. Diagnosed with Lyme last year. Had to replace the tie rod link on my tractor last week, in the field where I bent it. Even put a rubber mat down but had pulled 20+ crawling on me by the time I was finished. Mainly dog ticks, but found 2 of the deer ticks bit in later. Back of the knee and belt line. Need to get a flock of guinea fowl to turn loose!

Buy the big bottle of permethrin spray for horses at Tractor Supply and thin it down to spray on your clothes. I've waded waist deep into weeds picking blackberries and not found a tick. I have a couple pair of pants dedicated to using when I'm going places like that and they have been sprayed and I rarely wash them. The stuff made for clothes is expensive, the horse stuff is cheap.
 
Buy the big bottle of permethrin spray for horses at Tractor Supply and thin it down to spray on your clothes. I've waded waist deep into weeds picking blackberries and not found a tick. I have a couple pair of pants dedicated to using when I'm going places like that and they have been sprayed and I rarely wash them. The stuff made for clothes is expensive, the horse stuff is cheap.
I spray down woods work and hunting clothes with permethrin and let them dry before wearing. The Martin's is odor free (to me) when dry. I also make 'tick tubes' with it to keep the population down, this place has the worstest tick population I've ever seen.
https://www.domyown.com/permethrin-sfr-368-p-445.html
Sawyer's is 0.5% and @ $10 for 12oz. Martin's is a quart at 37% for $25, it goes a long way.
https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-insect-repellent-treatment/
 
this has removed ticks for us:
https://www.otom.com/
I like it!
A old friend told me about how his grandmother showed him how to remove ticks, waterboard with a wet Q-Tip.
It has worked ever time I've tried it in the last few years. Wet the Q-tip and spin it in circles around the tick. It irritates them and they back out after a couple minutes.
 
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I like it!
A old friend told me about how his grandmother showed hi how to remove ticks, waterboard with a wet Q-Tip.
It has worked ever time I've tried it in the last few years. Wet the Q-tip and spin it in circles around the tick. It irritates them and they back out after a couple minutes.

I couldn't last 2 minutes knowing that demon spawn is wiggling in the body.. *shudder* .
 
I like it!
A old friend told me about how his grandmother showed him how to remove ticks, waterboard with a wet Q-Tip.
It has worked ever time I've tried it in the last few years. Wet the Q-tip and spin it in circles around the tick. It irritates them and they back out after a couple minutes.

Didn't realize it worked with water...but I should have lol. Ive always used a qtip with fingernail polish remover and they back out pdq lol
 
Buy the big bottle of permethrin spray for horses at Tractor Supply and thin it down to spray on your clothes. I've waded waist deep into weeds picking blackberries and not found a tick. I have a couple pair of pants dedicated to using when I'm going places like that and they have been sprayed and I rarely wash them. The stuff made for clothes is expensive, the horse stuff is cheap.
This.
 
seen several ticks this year. It's the year of the tick for sure.
Have found one or two a week in the house since may.
Suspect most ride in on the dog, figure out she's treated and go exploring.

Thankfully haven't had but a couple on the people of the house.
Between our chickens, our neighbors chickens, and all the opossums, frogs, toads, and lizards there shouldn't be an invertebrate for at least a half mile radius.
 
My free range chickens have seemingly put a dent in the tick population. Either that or I'm not as flavorful as I used to be...
 
Buy the big bottle of permethrin spray for horses at Tractor Supply and thin it down to spray on your clothes. I've waded waist deep into weeds picking blackberries and not found a tick. I have a couple pair of pants dedicated to using when I'm going places like that and they have been sprayed and I rarely wash them. The stuff made for clothes is expensive, the horse stuff is cheap.

Try this for cost effectiveness:

https://www.amazon.com/Control-Solu...pID=41XO4IbOymL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
 
I highly agree and recommend with permethrin. I've always used it turkey hunting and it's bulletproof says me. we have some friends with land in VA and I swear you can get a tick on you driving past their place! I sat our there for some hours on the ground turkey hunting and not a single tick.
 
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Yeppers. Spray all your clothing down including shoes, socks, and underwear. Let it air dry. You're good to go.

I do this with all my clothing before heading to Kentucky each year for a family reunion. Some of the places we may visit are in the fields...and ticks abound there.
 
Pulled one off the puppy a couple weeks ago. Found one crawling on me in my bed the other morning!
 
I found a tick on Happy a couple weeks ago. Guess we didn't do his anti-flea/tick stuff when we should have (read: my wife didn't and I assumed she did.)

He wouldn't sit still for me to get the bugger off...so I misted him down with my permethrin spray, gave him a full-body massage, and let it go.

Next day the tick wasn't there. Found the b*stard on Happy's bed. Quite dead.
 
Need to get a flock of guinea fowl to turn loose!

This worked for us. We had chickens but still had ticks. Got 5 guineas (had 6 but one wandered off when young) and by the next year, no more ticks. Recently a fox got 4 of the guineas before I figured out what what was happening to them (they stopped going in the coop at night with the chickens, and would not stay in the fence at night where our dogs protect them, so got gone). I didn't miss the noise they made, but we started finding ticks again. Hoping to pick up 6 replacement keets (baby guineas) this weekend.
 
When I was a kid we lived in the woods all summer and I don't remember ever seeing a tick or have one on me.
 
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