The tick was removed with a wet Q-Tip on a circular motion, it really does work.
What is this technique you speak of? Wet a Q-tip with straight water? Can you elaborate a little? Thanks.
Indeed. Need more info on both pleaseTick tubes?
Water board them! This bugger was dug in on the pup's ear, wet a Q-tip then circle it around the tick wiggling it around, the combo of the water and irritation they back out on their own. An older-timer told me this a couple years ago and I thought BS. It's worked every time I've tried it on me, and through thick Rottie hair. They let go and grab the Q-tip.What is this technique you speak of? Wet a Q-tip with straight water? Can you elaborate a little? Thanks.
https://www.thermacell.com/products/tick-control-tubesTick tubes?
With the warm winter I expect a bad year for ticks is coming up...
Knowing that information explains why you moved into the Outerspace.Looks like an adult Ixodes scapularis, the tick that transmits Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease bacteria). They are actually more active in the winter. The Lonestar tick and American Dog Tick become more active when it is warm.
Knowing that information explains why you moved into the Outerspace.
Tick Tubes were developed with Thermacell and Harvard, they discovered tick nymphs primarly live on mice. Mice take the treated cotton balls to nest in and it kills the nymphs. I placed them late June, and noticed a CONSIDERABLE drop in ticks by last fall.Indeed. Need more info on both please
Only if I don't get abducted.LOL
Can I steal your pic? The aliens I work with can use some education on this....
I’ll be putting the home made tick tubes out as soon as this rain stops.
More info: https://organicdailypost.com/make-tick-tubes/I wanna know more about these homemade tick tubes you speak of.
The idea is mice are already there and a primary target for the ticks. You aren't building any population, just using ticks already established life cycle against them.
I can't spray 20 acres, I can place the tubes at the cleared woods around home, the path to the stands and the shooting lane.I get it. Seems off to me. I don't like the idea of making life easier on breeding mice. I am for poisoning them too...
well, did the ticks ever actually LEAVE to be Here Already?
Another reason CFF's the best!Dang, I learned two new things in this thread. I'm gonna have to try both the q-tip method as well as the tubes. I know I have a lot of mice around the house because I have been battling them in my shed for years.
I don't ever harm any of the black snakes, and I know we have a few that I've seen. I wonder if there is a place that breeds them? I'd love to let about 10 loose back there, I think my wife would divorce me but the mice problem would go away.That black snake IS your friend.
When the boys were 3-5 years old and we were broke my bride would collect Christmas presents throughout the year at Goodwill and yard sales, then store them in the attic until eve. We pulled out the classic Fisher Price garage and the bright green candy looking rat poison pellets, that were placed in the outdoor shed, fell out of it.I don't ever harm any of the black snakes, and I know we have a few that I've seen. I wonder if there is a place that breeds them? I'd love to let about 10 loose back there, I think my wife would divorce me but the mice problem would go away.
Another reason CFF's the best!
Remember, that black snake is your friend.
I see cats are included as well.Mice, Rats, & Squirrels
You need to make a bucket trap. 5 gallon bucket, a coat hanger, two empty beer cans, a little peanut butter, and about 4-5" of water in the bucket.Dang, I learned two new things in this thread. I'm gonna have to try both the q-tip method as well as the tubes. I know I have a lot of mice around the house because I have been battling them in my shed for years.
I don't ever harm any of the black snakes, and I know we have a few that I've seen. I wonder if there is a place that breeds them? I'd love to let about 10 loose back there, I think my wife would divorce me but the mice problem would go away.
Black snakes are the most natural form of pest control there is. They even eat copperheads. They're welcome in my yard! There are breeders but babies/juveniles are $30 to $50 a pop
Mice, Rats, & Squirrels
I believe they do. I was out on a job one day when a skink came running in the garage and got stuck on one of those glue traps. Hot on it's heels was a black snake that also got stuck. I spent the next half hour getting everyone unstuck and sent on their way.Do they also eat skinks? I have a lot of those, but hardly any mice.
I've already taken two off me. Those damned bites itch for weeks.
HA! You jarred me memory...Just pick the ticks off, and eat them. Absorb their power. Strike fear into their hearts.