Posted: 5/24/2005 8:13:00 AM EDT
anyone else have a tick problem, I put down three sacks of the tick pellets(can't remember name brand but its the diaznon stuff) from my door to where I park about two weeks ago, and I think the shit is attracting them instead of killing them, everyday before I walk in the house or get into my car I have to brush about 25 or so of the little bastards off my pants legs and shoes, and I know I don't get all of them off of me because I still find one or two crawling on me later, their worse than they have ever been before. Anyone have any ideas as to what else I can use, short of burning all the grass up or moving?
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Get some guineas for the yard. The birds are a pain in the wazoo but will keep the damn ticks down.
| thought about the chickens and guineas, but they make too much noise and the neighborhood dogs would eat the shit outta them and I'd feel obligated to shoot them to collect my investment back, the flamethrower would probably work but it'll burn the grass up, geese might work also, but they'd shit all over, thinkin' I'm going to have to call an exterminator and have them spray some industrial pesticide or something, or get a bunch of stray dogs and let them pick up all the ticks, then haul them off. |
It seemed like the seed ticks were really down that year as well as the dog ticks.
I just got back from Grand Lake, and damn! I pulled 4 ticks off my legs is 2 minutes...2 seed, and 2 deer ticks. I get to the truck and hose my legs down with 100% deet. I then go back into the woods. These ticks didn't give a shit about that, as three more were pulled off my legs. I just hope I didn't miss any of those seed ticks, or my balls will be itching tonight!
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pulled one off that was crawling on my cheek last night, been at work for nearly two hours, bad thing was I was talking to one of the beer girls, when the little bastard decided to make his appearance, I turned around to brush it off, and when I turned back around beer girl done booked, damn ticks are cutting into my snaging time now, their more trouble than the drunks we have to deal with daily. |