4 minute tick sweep. 23 ticks in 4 minutes in a 45 foot by 78 foot grid in my back yard ..not counting the three on my pants..Think i have a problem?
This early spring till september had been nearly tick free till the start of mid october and today.November 17 , 23 ticks in four minutes and this was a very fast sweep.
Yesterday i had three ticks on me in only a minute
Today all are deer ticks and two velvet mite..
wonder if the clearing on the property line had anything to do with this outbreak .. .
Three ticks were found in our back yard proper and the ticks were found next to the clearing site.
Few days ago i had a tick on my arm at work when i told my wife about it when i got home she said she too had a deer tick on her .
that tick she said was i a bowl of water in the sink . i noticed it was still alive at the bottom of the bowl ..and i asked her how long ago she placed the tick in the bowl she said an hour .
These 23 ticks lasted a few days of under 34 degrees we had at night .and while it only took four minutes to capture live deer ticks i placed in a small coin tube and placed them into the freezer. a half hour they still had shown no life so i could take pictures of them so they would crawl all over the place. still don't know if that killed them out right or just in
hibernation mode .. im keeping them in the tube!
Yes there dead...
and after talking to a friend she said its very likely removal of under growth brush and young trees are a direct cause of this tick outbreak.
4 minute tick sweep. 23 ticks in 4 minutes in a 45 foot by 78 foot grid in my back yard ..not counting the three on my pants..Think i have a problem?
This early spring till september had been nearly tick free till the start of mid october and today.November 17 , 23 ticks in four minutes and this was a very fast sweep.
Yesterday i had three ticks on me in only a minute
Today all are deer ticks and two velvet mite..
wonder if the clearing on the property line had anything to do with this outbreak .. .
Three ticks were found in our back yard proper and the ticks were found next to the clearing site.
Few days ago i had a tick on my arm at work when i told my wife about it when i got home she said she too had a deer tick on her .
that tick she said was i a bowl of water in the sink . i noticed it was still alive at the bottom of the bowl ..and i asked her how long ago she placed the tick in the bowl she said an hour .
These 23 ticks lasted a few days of under 34 degrees we had at night .and while it only took four minutes to capture live deer ticks i placed in a small coin tube and placed them into the freezer. a half hour they still had shown no life so i could take pictures of them so they would crawl all over the place. still don't know if that killed them out right or just in
hibernation mode .. im keeping them in the tube!
Yes there dead...
and after talking to a friend she said its very likely removal of under growth brush and young trees are a direct cause of this tick outbreak.