DROD900 - 1
saps852 - 1

5/17/2010 11:16:26 PM

0

5/17/2010 11:19:02 PM

Put bb down for 1. They're all over my inlaws in Va. and I picked up one.

5/17/2010 11:19:42 PM

i actually haven't found any on me yet this year. not sure how i got out of bigman's yard without at least one on me.

5/17/2010 11:20:08 PM

BUT DID YOU GET BIT?

5/17/2010 11:20:39 PM

bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
saps852 - 1

5/17/2010 11:21:05 PM

I spent all my time running around the woods/fields when I was younger, yet I've never pulled a single tick off of me. I feel like I failed some Genuine North Carolinian test.

5/17/2010 11:22:16 PM

I totally got bitten.

And if you get Lyme Disease, the rash is pretty freakin' obvious.

5/17/2010 11:23:56 PM

Maybe I just smelled bad as a kid

5/17/2010 11:27:44 PM

actually, i forgot that i found one in my hair after plowing through a briar patch trying to get to a decent fishing spot at lake raleigh

5/17/2010 11:29:49 PM

bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
NeuseRvrRat - 1
saps852 - 1

5/17/2010 11:32:48 PM

I've had 2 i've found latched on. That is 2 more than I've had over the last 5 years combined.

5/17/2010 11:45:12 PM

you dont count

5/17/2010 11:45:54 PM

And why the hell not??

5/17/2010 11:46:56 PM

because youre a jerk!

5/17/2010 11:48:42 PM

HA, jk

Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
NeuseRvrRat - 1
saps852 - 1

5/17/2010 11:49:32 PM

5/17/2010 11:49:52 PM

6 so far, 5 on my clothes and 1 on the back of my neck. wasnt latched on yet thank god

5/17/2010 11:55:07 PM

jataylor - 6
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
NeuseRvrRat - 1
saps852 - 1

5/17/2010 11:55:58 PM

lol wait til my roommates see this thread

5/17/2010 11:58:18 PM

i have 0 ticks in my life time. I grew up in the woods.

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

5/18/2010 12:00:44 AM

I got into a nest one time on the farm, and I was brushing them off with my hands by the thousands. they were the miniature baby seed ticks too. They looked like they would be too small to draw blood, but just seeing them swarm around on your leg was enough to give you a panic attack.

5/18/2010 12:00:45 AM

^that happened to me when we stopped for lunch canoeing down on harris lake. i stepped right in a nest and the babies were everywhere on my leg.

5/18/2010 12:02:47 AM

Uno pa' mi.

5/18/2010 12:28:46 AM

I'm gonna grossly underestimate my number of tick bites this year at 20. That in no way includes just the number I've found crawling on me. Field work is a bitch.

^^^and don't underestimate their ability to get to your bloodstream at that size. They attach just like the adults, but are much, much harder to pinch off.

[Edited on May 18, 2010 at 12:54 AM. Reason : f]

5/18/2010 12:53:05 AM

at first i was like abuh? then I realized it was about actual ticks.

5/18/2010 12:56:52 AM

Quote :

"^that happened to me when we stopped for lunch canoeing down on harris lake. i stepped right in a nest and the babies were everywhere on my leg."

I, too, have stepped into a nest of seed ticks. I first noticed them at lunch when I picked about 15 off as I felt them crawling up my knee/thigh area. Then I found the other 40 or so down around my ankles.

Put me down for 1 so far in 2010.

5/18/2010 9:29:10 AM

I hate tick nests... blah

I haven't had a tick since I had RMSF because I am on that shit like white on rice now... Yall need the super nice tick repellent stuff for your clothes (and I would spray the really high DEET stuff directly on my skin, but I don't really suggest that for others)

5/18/2010 9:31:27 AM

1

5/18/2010 9:32:20 AM

1

5/18/2010 9:53:44 AM

1

5/18/2010 9:54:07 AM

6 more today. all of these in 2 days on a new greenway trail i am working on

5/18/2010 7:57:27 PM

parody thread yet?

5/18/2010 7:59:57 PM

Permanone works well, if that's the nice stuff you're talking about. The problem is that you can't just apply it on your skin (at all) or your clothes right when you're ready to go out. It's supposed to be sprayed on your garments 4 hours before skin contact, at least in dry conditions. I only put it on my boots, primarily because of the damn chiggers. If there was only something I could do about my waistband.

DEET probably does the trick, too...that's if you can deal with that nasty oily feeling, bad smell, and the fact that it ends up eating through everything.

5/18/2010 8:05:18 PM

I went turkey hunting and came out of the woods with 19

5/18/2010 8:15:51 PM

jataylor - 12
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
grimx - 1
Liztheshiz
NeuseRvrRat - 1
Quinn - 1
saps852 - 1
Skack - 1

5/18/2010 8:18:04 PM

so everything I read said that a tick would have to be latched on for 24-36 hours for it to transmit a disease (i.e. lyme disease). My tick was latched on for 20-30 minutes max, so I'm probably good. I'm still paranoid cause I have a bright pink bump (like a mosquito bite bump) at the spot where I was bitten and then a light pink circle around the bump.

Of course, the bump could be from where I tried to burn off the tick and hit my skin, and the light pink circle could just be inflamed skin from itching the main bump

5/18/2010 8:22:02 PM

i would go crazy if ticks could fly

5/18/2010 9:51:57 PM

1 more today. so far.

5/21/2010 3:21:04 PM

i found 3 yesterday. deemarie had one on her neck today. our backyard is full of them.

5/30/2010 11:33:34 PM

Last time I found a tick latched onto me, it was somewhere I would never expect to find a tick. I freaked out proper and danced around like a pansy while my mom burned it off.

5/30/2010 11:35:21 PM

jataylor - 13
NeuseRvrRat - 3
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
grimx - 1
Liztheshiz
NeuseRvrRat - 1
Quinn - 1
saps852 - 1
Skack - 1
DeeMarie - 1
vinylbandit - 1

5/30/2010 11:36:08 PM

well that story sucks unless you tell us where it was

5/30/2010 11:36:11 PM

jataylor - 13
NeuseRvrRat - 3
thegoodlife3 - 3
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
grimx - 1
Liztheshiz
NeuseRvrRat - 1
Quinn - 1
saps852 - 1
Skack - 1
DeeMarie - 1
vinylbandit - 1

[Edited on May 30, 2010 at 11:37 PM. Reason : 3 and we won't be moving in for another 2 weeks ]

5/30/2010 11:37:09 PM

another advantage of having a nearly hairless body! i can find them sooner

5/30/2010 11:39:40 PM

I found a couple on me on Friday, but they weren't digging in yet. However, the twenty or so chiggers that ate into my legs are aggravating the hell out of me right now.

5/30/2010 11:45:16 PM

well shit, i guess i don't count? can i at least start at 1 for the one bite i got today on my shin?

and are we talking about simply finding them crawling on you, or is this bites only?

5/31/2010 12:10:35 AM

jataylor - 13
NeuseRvrRat - 4
thegoodlife3 - 3
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
grimx - 1
Liztheshiz
NeuseRvrRat - 1
Quinn - 1
saps852 - 1
Skack - 1
DeeMarie - 1
vinylbandit - 1

that was 3 in addition to the 1 i found earlier this year

5/31/2010 12:11:56 AM

fuck you guys, im adding myself to the list.

jataylor - 13
NeuseRvrRat - 4
thegoodlife3 - 3
Biofreak70 - 2
bottombaby - 1
DROD900 - 1
grimx - 1
Liztheshiz
NeuseRvrRat - 1
Quinn - 1
saps852 - 1
Skack - 1
DeeMarie - 1
vinylbandit - 1
umop-apisdn - 1

5/31/2010 12:13:35 AM

y'all are making me itch

5/31/2010 12:15:09 AM