Ticks

RememberBaker said:
I think the tubes have cotton or something similar that has been treated with permethrin, the mice take the cotton and use it in their nests and it kills any ticks on the mice. Maybe they are trying different insecticides or nesting materials to see what is most effective? It would be interesting to know what they are looking at.
Ticks always are the worst here very early in spring and very late in fall. I’ve had days late in the fall where I’ve picked 50+ ticks off my clothing. In the middle of the summer I go in the same woods with shorts on picking mushrooms and see a tick only rarely.
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you are correct ,some of the tubes I noticed have something like cotton partially pulled out . this can be seen in my first pic showing the white sticker on the flag . that's pretty much how the ticks are here too . spring and fall are the worst . although we do get them any time of year .
 
3 Meter Para Bellum said:
Just had a tick crawling up my side as I came to sit down at my computer, hah.

My mom read somewhere recently that supposedly the U.S. admitted that lyme disease was invented as a bio weapon. I haven't looked into it but I have heard people saying that they believed this to be the case for years. My mom has a friend who's husband was in the military and aquired lyme. They seemed to believe that they had gotten hints that the bio-weapon theory was true. If this was the case, it would be weird to think that the worst problem with ticks for people, the fear of aquiring lyme, didn't used to be a problem.

I don't have lyme, but I have a virus that exhibits highly similar symptoms, and sometimes I wonder if they could be related in some way. There is no good way to get rid of these diseases that I am aware of, so anything that can help preventing them is interesting to me. It sucks to have an expected life sentence of just feeling out of sorts all the time.
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I have heard this too about the military .
 
Spray your outdoor clothes monthly with 0.5% permethrin, keep some doxycycline on hand to take if you find one imbedded.
There are 2 viruses that are patented. Sars Cov II and Lyme disease. Anything that naturally occurs in the environment cannot be patented.
 
Ridge_Runner said:
Spray your outdoor clothes monthly with 0.5% permethrin, keep some doxycycline on hand to take if you find one imbedded.
There are 2 viruses that are patented. Sars Cov II and Lyme disease. Anything that naturally occurs in the environment cannot be patented.
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I don't know much about permethrin, I'll have to look into it. The problem I usually find with tick protection is that something that is toxic the the little buggers tends to also be toxic to people, it just takes more time for a person to manifest any impact. I never liked deet. Never heard of doxycycline, so I guess that's another thing to add to my ever expanding research list.
 
3 Meter Para Bellum said:
I don't know much about permethrin, I'll have to look into it. The problem I usually find with tick protection is that something that is toxic the the little buggers tends to also be toxic to people, it just takes more time for a person to manifest any impact. I never liked deet. Never heard of doxycycline, so I guess that's another thing to add to my ever expanding research list.
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Permethrin used to be the active ingredient in flea and tick powder when I was a kid. We would sprinkle it all over our dogs then rub in into their coats. Used it for years. Doxycycline is what's given as a preventative if you get a tick, can be bought online some places.
I buy 36.6% permethrin by the quart, mix it 1.5 oz. Per gallon with water in a garden sprayer. Spray my hunting clothes and let dry, it's good for several washes. It kills anything with 6 or 8 legs. Use it in your crawlspaces for spiders and ants. Anywhere you have bug problems.
 
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Permethrin is the synthetic version of a chemical found in chrysanthemums. It’s the active ingredient in Sawyers spray and I think it’s considered to be safe when it’s dry? I don’t know what else it’s in or if a non synthetic version is available
 
Permethrin is supposed to be safe to humans when dry , SAYWERS BRAND . I just retreated my walking jeans , and jacket this morning . supposedly it lasts 6 weeks , and six washes . I don't dry my clothes in the dryer , I hang them out on the line . I'm thinking , or maybe I read , the heat might shorten the effectiveness .

I've had Doxycycline two different ways . one way was a smaller dose , I THINK one a day , for 30 days . the other way is a huge pill that you take two and your done . my DR told me on the big pills , to take one , then eat a little something , then take the other . this usually helps keep them down . this is how I take them , and so far have done good . about a year ago I had one dug in next to my belly button . I really worked to get it out . I still have a small red mark where it was . I've had a bunch of them imbedded in me , and supposedly I don't have Lyme disease . I can only remember Denise having two ticks imbedded , and she had Lyme disease .
 
Ridge_Runner said:
Permethrin used to be the active ingredient in flea and tick powder when I was a kid. We would sprinkle it all over our dogs then rub in into their coats. Used it for years. Doxycycline is what's given as a preventative if you get a tick, can be bought online some places.
I buy 36.6% permethrin by the quart, mix it 1.5 oz. Per gallon with water in a garden sprayer. Spray my hunting clothes and let dry, it's good for several washes. It kills anything with 6 or 8 legs. Use it in your crawlspaces for spiders and ants. Anywhere you have bug problems.
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where do you buy the high powered Permethrin ?
 
Tried to upload a video that I took one morning gobbler hunting. Saw a tick crawling up the sleeve of my treated hoodie. By the time I got to videoing him he was completely disoriented and went in small circles for over a minute, then flipped over on his back and died. Video is too large to upload. I find a tick or 2 on me every year, but none hunting with my treated clothes. Got one on me in December one year after skinning a bear.
 
Ridge_Runner said:
Spray your outdoor clothes monthly with 0.5% permethrin, keep some doxycycline on hand to take if you find one imbedded.
There are 2 viruses that are patented. Sars Cov II and Lyme disease. Anything that naturally occurs in the environment cannot be patented.
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more bullshit

people patent all kinds of things they discover in nature
Here is a law about patents on found in nature plants for example

to the patents on viruses
"In summary, the list of patents presented is not evidence that viruses including H1N1, Zika and Ebola are manmade. The patents instead relate to naturally occurring virus material that has been isolated by scientists (as in the first SARS example), naturally occurring virus material that has been modified by scientists (as in the coronavirus example) or a different material altogether (as in the AIDS example). There is debate in the scientific world around the issue of whether naturally occurring material can be patented, and it what circumstances (here) but there is no question that the viruses and diseases listed in this post are products of nature."


I've had lyme. Sucked big time for about a year till I found a Doc who would test for it. Then antibiotics got rid of it in about 2 weeks.
 
One spring quite a few years ago I got one of the tick diseases. Not sure which one. The doctor just put me on really high medication to combat the effects I was having to fight the disease. He said it didn't matter which one I had, the remedy was the same. I was running 102-103 degree temperature steadily and they almost put me in the hospital. The doctor called me every day to see how I was doing. One of those buggers dug into my belly button on a spring black bear hunt outing with a friend. I remember my wife was not happy either because even though I stripped off my clothing right after the hunt just inside the front door and put the clothes in the washer right away, somehow a couple of those buggers broke past the guards! A couple days later my wife woke up with one on her shoulder. She was not happy. Not mad at me, just not happy at all! I was sick for about 10 days.

A couple of days passed before I found the tick in my belly button. He was face in and just a wee portion of his butt was visible sticking out. I was not feeling ill at this point... yet! The way he was burried in there I wasn't quite sure how to get him out. I know use a hot needle heated with flame to touch him with to get him to back out. Just wasn't sure if that would work or how it would work without burning me in the process. My wife was not too thrilled about being the removal squad. I have an inny bellybutton so I had my wife get fingernail polish remover and fill my belly button like a swimming pool while I laid on my back. She did and we let it sit for a few minutes. Figured that high potent stuff would get the bugger, and I was hoping that it would somehow disinfect the wound. Probably too late at this stage. After letting it sit for a spell my wife used a paper towel and got most of the fingernail polish remover removed from the tick swimming pool. She then used a tweezers to pluck him out. This lasted for several tries with her gently trying to removed the vermin but she could not get him. I finally had to tell her to grab that bugger and pull him out. She did and he came finally with flesh still in his mouth that came with him. I may have cussed a couple of times as some of the fingernail polish remover went into the void left by the ticks removal. IT STUNG like a son of a gun. Amazed the head came with him too. My limited understanding is you want the head to come as well for best results. The tick was quite dead. It was not very long after the removal that I started getting a really high fever with Doctor visits shortly after. I hate those buggers!
 
It actually may be that using something to kill him in your belly button might be the reason you caught something from him, although it could have just been there for long enough as well. Sometimes if you irritate a tick with heat, poison, etc, they will basically vomit into your blood stream, which can cause you to contract a tick born disease. I use these little forked spoon thing designed for removig ticks when I get one and it does a very good job of mechanically removing the whole tick, head included. It runs little risk of causing them to spew something nasty into your blood while removing them. However, I'm not sure that you could use one to get into your belly button...

I'll have to post a picture of one of these tick removers, they are extremely handy. I keep one in my backpack at all times.
 
3 Meter Para Bellum said:
It actually may be that using something to kill him in your belly button might be the reason you caught something from him, although it could have just been there for long enough as well. Sometimes if you irritate a tick with heat, poison, etc, they will basically vomit into your blood stream, which can cause you to contract a tick born disease. I use these little forked spoon thing designed for removig ticks when I get one and it does a very good job of mechanically removing the whole tick, head included. It runs little risk of causing them to spew something nasty into your blood while removing them. However, I'm not sure that you could use one to get into your belly button...

I'll have to post a picture of one of these tick removers, they are extremely handy. I keep one in my backpack at all times.
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I have one like you are talking about . looks like a small measuring spoon , with the notch . I got mine from a veterinarian office . I also have a tick remover that's called a " Tick Key " , if I remember right .

we got into them again on yesterdays morning walk . I gave Sally a quick look , and picked one or two off her , and put her in the truck . before we got to the highway I had to stop and get some off of me , and I opened her door , she was covered in the darned things . I got her out of the truck and cleaned her off .

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I wanted to let you guys know about this incase you're interested . my Mom called me earlier today , to tell me there will be some info tonight at 7pmEST , on Fox News . it will be on Laura Ingram 's show . Mom said something about tick bites , and getting allergic to red meat . Mom thought I'd be interested since I'm into the ticks quite often . I can't say if the segment will be worth watching , just wanted to pass it along .


on a good note , the ticks seem to have mellowed out now . I've probably only picked 6 or 8 off of me and Sally in roughly , the past 2 weeks .
 
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