[ed dixon]

Have your hunting/fishing haunts become "tickier" over the last 10 years or so? I know this is a broad question, addressed to folks all over the country, but it seems so here in my neck of Penn's Woods. Of course while much less of an annoyance in the cold months, it seems that whole tribes congregate where an occasional outlier used to hitch a ride. Hate the little vampires.

[DAL]

I don't remember ever having a problem with them in Colorado, although I know they exist here. It seems the humid states, however, are infested with the little parasites. They really creeped me out when I was in TX and MO. I feel for you guys who have to put up with them.

Back in the late 60s, I can remember my dad coming home from a week or two in the field while stationed at Ft. Hood with numerous ticks attached to various areas of his body, and my mom pulling them out. YECCCHHH!!!
DAL

[Art Eatman]

The numbers vary with rainfall and suchlike. Dry years, fewer ticks.

I grew up with the little doofers in CenTex. The worst was getting into a mess of "seed" ticks, those nearly invisible devils that would get on you by the hundreds. Took a lot of kerosene baths.

Powdered sulfur in your socks and rubbed on your lower legs tends to keep them off, but not 100%...

Art

[Bruz]

those nearly invisible devils that would get on you by the hundreds. Took a lot of kerosene baths.

Aren’t those also called "crabs"?

[waynzwld]

Ticks are reqiured in Missouri :D .
I have found that Perminon (sp?) is the only thing that really works. Wall-Mart sells it.
Spray it on your shoes, socks, pants and shirt, let it dry, and you are good to go. I have tried everything else with no sucess. It is the only thing that works. Oh, it lasts for 2 weeks or until you wash the clothes.

[Art Eatman]

Only in Kalifornia, Bruz. Seriously, I don't have a clue if these seed ticks are fresh-hatched baby ticks or what. They are very tiny; just one by itself is almost invisible. They're quite visible when there are heaps, gobs and bunches of them crawling up your leg, though. They dig in like they think they're fully grown. Howsomever, they don't like kerosene.

It is purely a base canard that Grammaw tied kerosene-soaked rags around my ankles to keep the cutworms off.

:), Art

[Kcustom45]

They seem to be more of a problem this year in central Indiana then they were last year. Like Art said they fluctuate from year to year.

I hate not finding them right away and having to take a red-hot safety pin to them.

[ed dixon]

(Note to self: Skirt the edges of Indiana for foreseeable future. Take buggy into county mercantile for powdered sulfur. Ask God, "Why fleas? Why ticks?" one more time.):uhoh:

[TNT]

They seem to be the worst right away in spring and fewer as summer rolls on. I went for a short walk one day and found 6 ticks crawling up my pants.:fire: I hate them.:mad: