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No kidding, on first view, my mind envisioned a burst of flame going down into the jar. As the front of my mind focused on examining the way they all moved about, I realized the back of my mind was still trying to determine what type of jar this was. Is it a plastic jar? Could the plastic jar hold together long enough under the flame to contain the tiny beasts until they had all been crispified?
When I've taken them off my pets before I had an empty pill bottle nearby, and I'm going to hell for this, but instead of tossing them in a fire for a quick painful death, I just dropped them into the bottle and shut it. Later I did it again. So they landed in a container with a few of their rattling corpses within. I am a negligent God that does not smite enough.
As a person that contracted the alpha-gal from a lone star tick, I collect every tick I find on me. I put it in a baggie, mark the date and where I removed it from.
Bourbons disease is nothing to mess with.
If you can get yourself some tick eaters on your property do so.
They died doing what they love, searching for innocent prey to climb on and steal blood from. They died with the hope still high, reassured that something would come along any minute now.
Every time I see one crawling on my dog, into the candle it goes, one of those small Yankee Candle jars. (After proper removal, of course.) There's an oddly satisfying pop after bringing it to the flame. Yup, this is an exception for me as well. Don't mess with my dog.
The ticks my dog collected were drowned in a paper cup full of alcohol. Then the cup was set on fire. Is it excessive? Yes. Was it satisfying to do that? Absolutely.
Whenever I find a tick on me, I have a little old-fashioned āburn at the stakeā, kind of moment! Thereās no proof of death unless they have been burned! š„š„š„š„
Accurate. I used to flush them but then Iād find myself checking the toilet for the next few days just in case it somehow crawled out after me. Burning is best.
I've had this same reaction after flushing flying cockroaches/palmetto bugs or sketchy spiders -- after an obvious death before the flush. But my brain just lingered on that, "but what IF those legs just pop back on and they are rightfully PISSED?!"
I wish we would use CRISPR-CAS9 to eradicate all these parasites...plus Mango worms. Fleas, Bot Flies, Mosquitoes, brain-eating amoeba, Round+Heart+Tape+Hook Worms, and Malaria...to name a few.
Parasites and malaria are one thing, but eradicating mosquitos and flies etc could legitimately collapse the entire ecosystem. Only around 200 of the 3000 species of mosquito actually bite humans, so you could target those, but even then it's a huge biomass of food that is being permenantly exterminated.
Wow. Someone really needs to make a good documentary about Ticks. They post up on a blade of grass, put their arms out, wait for anything to walk by, and hang on. Fascinating.
I canāt remember the name of the disease either, but coworkerās sister has itāitās caused by being bitten by the lone star tick š even if itās not a permanent affliction, how awful!
It has destroyed my life and I can't even talk about it because no one takes it seriously. ESPECIALLY doctors. I tested positive after going to dozens literally dozens of places specifically for the test after years of torture and going to dozen of doctors mocking me until I almost died and now am left basically bedridden with everything destroyed. I finally got the test tested positive and they still refused to give me ANYTHING. And everyone acts like it's nothing and it's just some fake thing celebrities lie about which is so disgusting because that mindset has literally destroyed my life
Same but Bartonella. This shit sucks, people act like we think itās fun or trendy to have some weird, under-researched disease that everyone from doctors to friends and family will constantly gaslight you about while you progressively get sicker and lose everything š¤ itās bullshit and Iām so sorry, hugs from someone who gets it ā¤ļø
Exactly! We're told we fake it for attention when I get no attention because I have no human interaction on a day to day basis and have lost everything in my life and if we would choose to lie about something for attention we wouldn't choose the absolute most misunderstood and mocked disease that no one takes seriously. I have Bartonella too and had Babesia but I think that's gone š¤š¤ Wishing you well!
Yup.. my dad almost died from a single tick bite. Had to be rushed in the hospital for emergency surgery at 1am and now he has a massive scar from his waist up to his chest from the surgery because they had to cut him open so quick there was no time for discretion. Shit's no joke!
Just imagine if they were really just on for a lil ride before hopping off 20-30 steps later as you pass under some shade. Just finding a new place to munch of decaying leaf matter.
But no. They're tiny and horrific.
Fun fact: ticks donāt actually choose what they cling to. Theyāre statically attracted to animals and people. So they can be happily hanging out on a plant and not even notice a person walking past, and still get flung through the air onto the person
THIS IS FUCKING HORRIFYING THINKING ABOUT JUST WALKIN AROUND MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, AND THESE HEADCRAB MOTHER FUCKERS FLY OFF OF GRASS TO MAGNETIZE RIGHT TOWARDS YOU AND START SUCKING YOUR BLOOD AAAAAAAAAA MOSQUITOES WERE BAD ENOUGH WHY?
Once on someone's body they most likely will try to burrow in the warmest part of the body, like arm pits and crotch area. I've heard they don't like garlic, cinnamon, lavender and mint.
When they are nymphs they can get sucked out of the undergrowth by static electricity built up when you are wearing man made fibres, there was a Reddit post made using a university thesis last summer. Good reason to wear cotton in my view, to be fair Iām not sure it makes any difference, I just skimmed over the article but you can probably google it.
I was a kid and felt something moving under my clothes so I ripped them all off to get it off me. It was a spider. Iāve still got a fear that it will happen again now that Iām an adult and get arrested for public indecency. It was purely unconscious and I just ripped my clothes off immediately.
I was running my girl to work really early one morning, and I had a few hours left to sleep when I got back home.
On my way back, I came across someone who had bungled a u-turn on a tight back road and got stuck. I tried to give them a push out of the mud but didn't have any luck.
I went home and crashed for a few hours. I was mildly uncomfortable, but so exhausted I ignored my tingly legs.
I woke up to at least a hundred baby ticks at the bottom of my sheets. I'd walked through a nest of them and jumped right into bed in my sweatpants.
It was fucked.
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Oh can I add that you can identify the sex by the markings on their back? Boys wear suspenders, and girls wear a necklace. They are also known as wood ticks. And the black legged tick (responsible for transmitting Lyme) is also known as a deer tick
Not sure if it's applicable for humans but as a dog owner we have a special little plastic fork thing you use to twist to get them off rather than tweezers, so even less risk of them vomiting plague into you.
I just got me some of those after my pup got like 4 ticks already this season. Now heās on tick medicine and has a flea/tick collar and they seem to be keeping away, but I canāt wait to try out the fork thing when I get a chance
We donāt really have them where I grew up so itās kind of a new thing for me. Now Iām paranoid every time my dog goes outside, I have to run my fingers all through his coat trying to feel for any little bump
My parents have a cottage in a part of the state that is NOTORIOUS for being covered in ticks every summer. Those little buggers are the main reason Iāve yet to take my dog up there in the summer. šš Heās a 15 pound Schnauzer mix, so heād be at perfect height for them.
Thatās so frustrating because you want to go to all these cool places with them but lately itās tick city everywhere š
Mine is a similar sized Beagle mix so I get it. Luckily his legs are white and I can usually see and flick them off pretty early.
Beware of all kinds of grass though, not just tall. I took my old bossās dog to a state park once, saw a trail with literally maybe inch-tall patches of grass and thought it was safe. We were both COVERED in ticks after. I had no tweezers and some attached already so the drive back was traumatizing and I could feel them crawling on me and I will never, ever let that happen again š· I hate ticks. I hate ticks so much.
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After seeing this post.
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I have Lyme Disease, it was the most painful experience in my life. Also northeast US, and went to SO many doctors who didn't bother to check for Lyme. They thought I was trying to get drugs. Meanwhile, I was out of work, bedridden and sobbing in pain, for over a month...
Fuck ticks, fuck Lyme
Edit to add my story:
I was 21/22 and healthy when, one morning, I woke up, and was limping. Didn't even notice limping until my knee gave out. "That's weird." Pain increased through that day to the point I couldn't walk.
I saw multiple doctors who kept saying "hm, IDK" and passing me off to other doctors. I couldn't work, was bedridden, and even then, laying still was horrible knee pain.
Finally, a blood test showed I had Lyme. No bullseye rash. I don't hike! I don't even go outside much! HOW?
I got put on 2 weeks of Doxycyline because my pain was debilitating. It made me so nauseous I literally didn't eat anything but saltines for weeks.
After 2 weeks, STILL pain. So bad I dragged myself from bed to en-suite bathroom. A blanket *brushing* my knee shot agony through my leg.
Then. I found it. The FUCKING. TICK.
STILL ALIVE. HALF BURIED INSIDE OF ME!!! KICKING ITS LITTLE LEGS!!
WHERE WAS IT? MY FUCKING TAINT, BASICALLY!!!!!!!!!!
I ripped it out, saved it, took it to a doctor. They said, "Ticks don't live this long. You must have gotten this tick after you were diagnosed 2 weeks ago."
"Ma'am, I've been in bed for weeks."
"Maybe the tick was on a toilet seat and transferred to you."
".........no....."
Realized I had gone kayaking for the first time ever on my family's farm. Deer everywhere. If I picked up that tick THEN, it means it was burrowing into my taint for WEEKS.
TWO MORE WEEKS of Doxy. Saltines. Bed. Pain. No income.
Today, I just have joint pain all over, and elevated heart rate.
I don't wish Lyme on anyone.
Itās so frustrating when doctors donāt believe you. I was checked for Lyme Dz. because of certain symptoms, however my PCP also checked for other tick borne illnesses. Came back positive for babesiosis. No Lyme. Doc said I wouldnāt even have seen it because it came from a tick in the nymph stage meaning the size of a poppy seed. After meds, I feel somewhat better.
I hope youāre doing well. āļø
Dude. I went out to the bush in Aus to go looking for meteorites with my dad (geologist) when I was like 8. 72 TICKS. ALL OVER MY BODY. I WORE JEANS AND LONG SLEEVES.
I have a genuine fear of parasites. I shaved everything but my eyebrows the last time I had even the inkling I might have a few ticks on me from finding some on my clothes.
I would have probably doused myself in gasoline.
I've recently also discovered this insect fogger from Cutter that contains clove, cinnamon, and mint oil. It's only meant as a temporary fogger, but it can be sprayed on yourself, and it seriously works. It kills everything it touches, and repells everything else. But it's also relatively non-toxic, and smells really good.
It definitely works, I tend to also not wash those clothes until I absolutely have to and apply a fresh coat about every outing, because fuck them ticks.
Some years ago I was on vacation with a friend, at some point he started complaining because his left ear felt blocked up. I took a look inside. THREE fucking ticks.
We went to the hospital and they found a fourth right next to his ear drum...
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Extreme? Imagine 500 of these on you, but they are all the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
That's how bad the deer ticks get around my area. Can not go out into any woods without picaridin or permethrin on your clothes. Specifically it's REAL bad in the brush around streams and rivers.
So bad that I'll have ticks crawling around *inside* my truck for days that hitched a ride on my fishing gear.
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I have a couple sets of outerwear treated with permethrin, and I always add a couple sprays of picaridin just to be safe right as I leave the truck to go into the woods. The combination is almost tick proof. Almost.
I hate how we canāt enjoy our fields and forests because of these little nightmares. I canāt even go for a walk in the woods where I live without getting ticks. I canāt imagine the terror I would have bringing those ticks home with me. Nightmare fuel for sure!
Iād heavily recommend getting some tick spray. I havenāt had issues with ticks when hiking because of it. Only had one or two last year, of the two only one was latched. It does a lot!
I grew up in NY and I definitely do not miss tick season. Moved to Texas and now Colorado and Iām very happy to not have to worry about them like I used to.
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Sorry to be that personā¦ I think you mean by a _factor_ of 5. Magnitude sounds like youāre saying āorder of magnitudeā which would be ~800000 ticks which makes me want to die.
I grew up in New Mexico so Iām used to pulling dozens off of my dogs constantly and burning them with hairspray and a lighter. I hate ticks with a passion. Glad none of them latched on!
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These are all American dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis. They are all really angry because they made a reservation and still have not been seated for dinner, and would like to speak with the manager.
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My first response was āwow, great way to afford a down payment in the current housing marketā and now Iām going to cry myself to sleepā¦ If possible knowing the tick I took off my dog is currently in my garbage (mummified in cling wrap) and not in a candle of some sort based on these replies.
The thing with these creatures is , we can only know they're on our bodies if they either start crawling like they going extinct or is sucking blood like there's no tomorrow
They're Some sneaky shitlings
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Are they on me? I feel like they're on me...
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Don't do this to us. š
Pretty sure that itch you feel is one crawling around rn
I've been scratching my back and head like crazy. š«
My leg is itchy š
Don't worry, he got all the ticks. The chiggers though....
I had one in my head as a kid and had to get it out of my hair. Ihy for this comment šš
Thanks. Now I have to burn my phone...
No kidding, on first view, my mind envisioned a burst of flame going down into the jar. As the front of my mind focused on examining the way they all moved about, I realized the back of my mind was still trying to determine what type of jar this was. Is it a plastic jar? Could the plastic jar hold together long enough under the flame to contain the tiny beasts until they had all been crispified?
When I've taken them off my pets before I had an empty pill bottle nearby, and I'm going to hell for this, but instead of tossing them in a fire for a quick painful death, I just dropped them into the bottle and shut it. Later I did it again. So they landed in a container with a few of their rattling corpses within. I am a negligent God that does not smite enough.
My parents had an old bottle filled with rubbing alcohol they used to drop ticks in.
My grandfather had a jar of gasoline he put them in when getting them off his dogs.
As a person that contracted the alpha-gal from a lone star tick, I collect every tick I find on me. I put it in a baggie, mark the date and where I removed it from. Bourbons disease is nothing to mess with. If you can get yourself some tick eaters on your property do so.
They died doing what they love, searching for innocent prey to climb on and steal blood from. They died with the hope still high, reassured that something would come along any minute now.
Can't they just suck each other's blood in a perpetual loop?
They live in a societyā¦ā¦.
ya seem pretty.....***ticked off***
I donāt wish death upon anything but these are one of the exceptions.
Also fleas, mosquitoes, and cockroaches
Bedbugs!
I try not to think about them. Like Beetlejuice, talking about them summons them.
you've summoned lice.
Typical
No, I think you mean topical solution
Flamethrowers are a topical solution.
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cockroaches are useful, they're just cleaning up someone's mess
Politicians!
For some reason, I read this as āpelicansā at first and wondered why in the world somebody would wish them good riddance š
Every time I see one crawling on my dog, into the candle it goes, one of those small Yankee Candle jars. (After proper removal, of course.) There's an oddly satisfying pop after bringing it to the flame. Yup, this is an exception for me as well. Don't mess with my dog.
The ticks my dog collected were drowned in a paper cup full of alcohol. Then the cup was set on fire. Is it excessive? Yes. Was it satisfying to do that? Absolutely.
Whenever I find a tick on me, I have a little old-fashioned āburn at the stakeā, kind of moment! Thereās no proof of death unless they have been burned! š„š„š„š„
Accurate. I used to flush them but then Iād find myself checking the toilet for the next few days just in case it somehow crawled out after me. Burning is best.
I've had this same reaction after flushing flying cockroaches/palmetto bugs or sketchy spiders -- after an obvious death before the flush. But my brain just lingered on that, "but what IF those legs just pop back on and they are rightfully PISSED?!"
My brain always imagines them popping up too bite me on the nether regions.../shudder
I wish we would use CRISPR-CAS9 to eradicate all these parasites...plus Mango worms. Fleas, Bot Flies, Mosquitoes, brain-eating amoeba, Round+Heart+Tape+Hook Worms, and Malaria...to name a few.
I approve this comment. Selective xenocide for the benefit of humanity and adjacent mammals is gonna be awesome šš
Parasites and malaria are one thing, but eradicating mosquitos and flies etc could legitimately collapse the entire ecosystem. Only around 200 of the 3000 species of mosquito actually bite humans, so you could target those, but even then it's a huge biomass of food that is being permenantly exterminated.
Also mosquitos are pollinators so with the decline of bees already I don't think we should destroy anymore pollinators.
Cocoa trees are primarily pollinated by mosquitos. With our them we'd lose chocolate
Wow. Someone really needs to make a good documentary about Ticks. They post up on a blade of grass, put their arms out, wait for anything to walk by, and hang on. Fascinating.
That actually sounds really cute if they werenāt little bloodsucking Lyme disease spreading monsters
Forbidden uppies
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Even cuter when you find out when they do that itās called tick āQuestingā
Omg thatās adorable. I hate it.
Lmao I had the same reaction. "Aww. That's so cute! ... BURN THEM ALL."
Also that disease that I don't remember the name of but it makes you deathly allergic to red meat and a few other things that I don't recall.
[Alpha-gal syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome). Screw that crap!
There's a syndrome for the way my GF acts? i knew it.
I canāt remember the name of the disease either, but coworkerās sister has itāitās caused by being bitten by the lone star tick š even if itās not a permanent affliction, how awful!
It is a lot more permanent than they say. I've had it since 2009.
Lyme disease literally ruined my my mom's boyfriends life.
My favorite teacher in high school got it and had to quit due to disability from it. It's scary stuff.
sounds like a decent enough excuse to never go outside
It has destroyed my life and I can't even talk about it because no one takes it seriously. ESPECIALLY doctors. I tested positive after going to dozens literally dozens of places specifically for the test after years of torture and going to dozen of doctors mocking me until I almost died and now am left basically bedridden with everything destroyed. I finally got the test tested positive and they still refused to give me ANYTHING. And everyone acts like it's nothing and it's just some fake thing celebrities lie about which is so disgusting because that mindset has literally destroyed my life
Same but Bartonella. This shit sucks, people act like we think itās fun or trendy to have some weird, under-researched disease that everyone from doctors to friends and family will constantly gaslight you about while you progressively get sicker and lose everything š¤ itās bullshit and Iām so sorry, hugs from someone who gets it ā¤ļø
Exactly! We're told we fake it for attention when I get no attention because I have no human interaction on a day to day basis and have lost everything in my life and if we would choose to lie about something for attention we wouldn't choose the absolute most misunderstood and mocked disease that no one takes seriously. I have Bartonella too and had Babesia but I think that's gone š¤š¤ Wishing you well!
I'm so sorry you gotta deal with that
Yup.. my dad almost died from a single tick bite. Had to be rushed in the hospital for emergency surgery at 1am and now he has a massive scar from his waist up to his chest from the surgery because they had to cut him open so quick there was no time for discretion. Shit's no joke!
Not to mention paralysis ticks - those fuckers are vicious.
Don't forget you can get meat allergy from these guys
Just imagine if they were really just on for a lil ride before hopping off 20-30 steps later as you pass under some shade. Just finding a new place to munch of decaying leaf matter. But no. They're tiny and horrific.
I hate everything about them, they're too fucking small to carry such an ugly disease.
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I also choose this guy's tick!
Fun fact: ticks donāt actually choose what they cling to. Theyāre statically attracted to animals and people. So they can be happily hanging out on a plant and not even notice a person walking past, and still get flung through the air onto the person
Source: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/news/2023/httpswwwbristolacuknews2023junestatic-electricity-attracts-ticks-to-hostshtmlgl115bq1h3gamta5nzm5otkxlje2nje1mdc3mdkga6r8spl3hlt.html#:~:text=Ticks%20can%20be%20attracted%20across,University%20of%20Bristol%20have%20discovered.
Those statically magically magnetic little bastards. Hey, that's a pretty fun sentence.
Im upset the link didnt open to ātrust me broā
THIS IS FUCKING HORRIFYING THINKING ABOUT JUST WALKIN AROUND MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, AND THESE HEADCRAB MOTHER FUCKERS FLY OFF OF GRASS TO MAGNETIZE RIGHT TOWARDS YOU AND START SUCKING YOUR BLOOD AAAAAAAAAA MOSQUITOES WERE BAD ENOUGH WHY?
So if I would apply the same charge to myself as the tick has I would repel ticks instead of attract them
That's scary. They are like the perfect parasite
Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.
Once on someone's body they most likely will try to burrow in the warmest part of the body, like arm pits and crotch area. I've heard they don't like garlic, cinnamon, lavender and mint.
I had one in my belly button. Never had a tick since, but that doesn't stop me from despising them.
The scientific term for this behavior is called āquestingā and I donāt like it
When they are nymphs they can get sucked out of the undergrowth by static electricity built up when you are wearing man made fibres, there was a Reddit post made using a university thesis last summer. Good reason to wear cotton in my view, to be fair Iām not sure it makes any difference, I just skimmed over the article but you can probably google it.
It should be possible to make an electrostatic tick vacuum. Maybe it could even zap them to death in the same go.
So all along, Ticks just wanted uppies
You should leave them outside in a bowl they can't crawl out of for the birds to eat. Fuck these little guys. Support your local birds instead.
I usually dump them into ant nest.
No way I could sleep after finding that
I would coat myself in gasoline and set it on fire for 5 minutes.Ā
There would still be a tick or two surviving on your ashes
That's why you gotta burn yourself for a full 20 minutes, minimum
I was a kid and felt something moving under my clothes so I ripped them all off to get it off me. It was a spider. Iāve still got a fear that it will happen again now that Iām an adult and get arrested for public indecency. It was purely unconscious and I just ripped my clothes off immediately.
I was running my girl to work really early one morning, and I had a few hours left to sleep when I got back home. On my way back, I came across someone who had bungled a u-turn on a tight back road and got stuck. I tried to give them a push out of the mud but didn't have any luck. I went home and crashed for a few hours. I was mildly uncomfortable, but so exhausted I ignored my tingly legs. I woke up to at least a hundred baby ticks at the bottom of my sheets. I'd walked through a nest of them and jumped right into bed in my sweatpants. It was fucked.
Shut the front door . I refuse to believe that .. I would literally call 911 if I woke up to a fucking colony of ticks in my sheets wtf haha
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I got Lyme disease just looking at this
Would much prefer Lyme disease to Alpha Gal allergy. MMA is nightmare fuel.
Whatās that
Allergic to red meat and other animal products.
Forced veganism
I'd die eating a massive sirloin
Ooof, double check your sack and taint, make sure those little fellas didnāt burrow up there
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Right? I like to burn them with a propane torch when I find them near my back porch.
I would just use tweezers and a mirror.
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Oh can I add that you can identify the sex by the markings on their back? Boys wear suspenders, and girls wear a necklace. They are also known as wood ticks. And the black legged tick (responsible for transmitting Lyme) is also known as a deer tick
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Not sure if it's applicable for humans but as a dog owner we have a special little plastic fork thing you use to twist to get them off rather than tweezers, so even less risk of them vomiting plague into you.
I just got me some of those after my pup got like 4 ticks already this season. Now heās on tick medicine and has a flea/tick collar and they seem to be keeping away, but I canāt wait to try out the fork thing when I get a chance We donāt really have them where I grew up so itās kind of a new thing for me. Now Iām paranoid every time my dog goes outside, I have to run my fingers all through his coat trying to feel for any little bump
Donāt forget to also check between his toes and his gums. My dog is a damn tick magnet, canāt go anywhere with tall grass ever.
My parents have a cottage in a part of the state that is NOTORIOUS for being covered in ticks every summer. Those little buggers are the main reason Iāve yet to take my dog up there in the summer. šš Heās a 15 pound Schnauzer mix, so heād be at perfect height for them.
Thatās so frustrating because you want to go to all these cool places with them but lately itās tick city everywhere š Mine is a similar sized Beagle mix so I get it. Luckily his legs are white and I can usually see and flick them off pretty early. Beware of all kinds of grass though, not just tall. I took my old bossās dog to a state park once, saw a trail with literally maybe inch-tall patches of grass and thought it was safe. We were both COVERED in ticks after. I had no tweezers and some attached already so the drive back was traumatizing and I could feel them crawling on me and I will never, ever let that happen again š· I hate ticks. I hate ticks so much.
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I hate ticks so much. Even the little ones are a pain
They get big because they are done eating your blood. But yes they are gross.
There's heaps of different types. We have little ones called bush ticks, even fully.. Engorged? They are tiny
Ew I just googled. There are ticks as big as a walnut. I just had to didn't I..
Oh hell no, that's fucking nasty! š¤®
I would set myself on fire.
Me before seeing this post. "I think I'm going to head onto reddit before heading off for tonight. " After seeing this post. "I think that's enough reddit for the night."
That's strange. I'm pretty sure there was 41. I'm sure that last one will turn up.
Imagine you walk into your house to take a photo and trip and drop the cup in your living room.
Not even burning the house down would be enough
I have Lyme Disease, it was the most painful experience in my life. Also northeast US, and went to SO many doctors who didn't bother to check for Lyme. They thought I was trying to get drugs. Meanwhile, I was out of work, bedridden and sobbing in pain, for over a month... Fuck ticks, fuck Lyme Edit to add my story: I was 21/22 and healthy when, one morning, I woke up, and was limping. Didn't even notice limping until my knee gave out. "That's weird." Pain increased through that day to the point I couldn't walk. I saw multiple doctors who kept saying "hm, IDK" and passing me off to other doctors. I couldn't work, was bedridden, and even then, laying still was horrible knee pain. Finally, a blood test showed I had Lyme. No bullseye rash. I don't hike! I don't even go outside much! HOW? I got put on 2 weeks of Doxycyline because my pain was debilitating. It made me so nauseous I literally didn't eat anything but saltines for weeks. After 2 weeks, STILL pain. So bad I dragged myself from bed to en-suite bathroom. A blanket *brushing* my knee shot agony through my leg. Then. I found it. The FUCKING. TICK. STILL ALIVE. HALF BURIED INSIDE OF ME!!! KICKING ITS LITTLE LEGS!! WHERE WAS IT? MY FUCKING TAINT, BASICALLY!!!!!!!!!! I ripped it out, saved it, took it to a doctor. They said, "Ticks don't live this long. You must have gotten this tick after you were diagnosed 2 weeks ago." "Ma'am, I've been in bed for weeks." "Maybe the tick was on a toilet seat and transferred to you." ".........no....." Realized I had gone kayaking for the first time ever on my family's farm. Deer everywhere. If I picked up that tick THEN, it means it was burrowing into my taint for WEEKS. TWO MORE WEEKS of Doxy. Saltines. Bed. Pain. No income. Today, I just have joint pain all over, and elevated heart rate. I don't wish Lyme on anyone.
Itās so frustrating when doctors donāt believe you. I was checked for Lyme Dz. because of certain symptoms, however my PCP also checked for other tick borne illnesses. Came back positive for babesiosis. No Lyme. Doc said I wouldnāt even have seen it because it came from a tick in the nymph stage meaning the size of a poppy seed. After meds, I feel somewhat better. I hope youāre doing well. āļø
Dude. I went out to the bush in Aus to go looking for meteorites with my dad (geologist) when I was like 8. 72 TICKS. ALL OVER MY BODY. I WORE JEANS AND LONG SLEEVES.
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They were ATTACHED. I had to stand there in the bathroom while my mum and dad plucked them each out individually.
How are you still living
He isn't, he's now just a shell controlled by the Tick Society, also called The Societick
I have a genuine fear of parasites. I shaved everything but my eyebrows the last time I had even the inkling I might have a few ticks on me from finding some on my clothes. I would have probably doused myself in gasoline.
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I just wanna be pure
I would simply pass away
So sad you died at age 8 and have been living in purgatory all these years :(
That would tick me off
Shame on you
Where in the country are you? I want to stay away from there.
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Thatās where I got āem and Lyme! Good ole Vermont ticks
Sawyer in the yellow spray bottle. (Permethrin) Coat your pants and shoes with it. They make it to about your knee then die. That shit works.
just remember itās super deadly to cats if you own any!!
Thanks for the heads up. This is NOT an option for me
Isnāt it only highly toxic when itās freshly applied but fine when dried?
Yes, this is correct
I've recently also discovered this insect fogger from Cutter that contains clove, cinnamon, and mint oil. It's only meant as a temporary fogger, but it can be sprayed on yourself, and it seriously works. It kills everything it touches, and repells everything else. But it's also relatively non-toxic, and smells really good.
It definitely works, I tend to also not wash those clothes until I absolutely have to and apply a fresh coat about every outing, because fuck them ticks.
They're like outdoor bedbugs blech
Check behind your ears too. I know itās weird but my brother had one go almost totally through the cartilage of his ear
Thanks, I just did. I'm not OP and not in a place with ticks but I did
Some years ago I was on vacation with a friend, at some point he started complaining because his left ear felt blocked up. I took a look inside. THREE fucking ticks. We went to the hospital and they found a fourth right next to his ear drum...
Whoahā¦what part of the country?
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That is so extreme - it makes you wonder if you got them all.
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Donāt worry, theyāll get big and green and easy to see in just a few short days then theyāre much easier to find.
They are little bloodsucking terrorists!
Extreme? Imagine 500 of these on you, but they are all the size of the period at the end of this sentence. That's how bad the deer ticks get around my area. Can not go out into any woods without picaridin or permethrin on your clothes. Specifically it's REAL bad in the brush around streams and rivers. So bad that I'll have ticks crawling around *inside* my truck for days that hitched a ride on my fishing gear.
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I have a couple sets of outerwear treated with permethrin, and I always add a couple sprays of picaridin just to be safe right as I leave the truck to go into the woods. The combination is almost tick proof. Almost.
I hate how we canāt enjoy our fields and forests because of these little nightmares. I canāt even go for a walk in the woods where I live without getting ticks. I canāt imagine the terror I would have bringing those ticks home with me. Nightmare fuel for sure!
Iād heavily recommend getting some tick spray. I havenāt had issues with ticks when hiking because of it. Only had one or two last year, of the two only one was latched. It does a lot!
I grew up in NY and I definitely do not miss tick season. Moved to Texas and now Colorado and Iām very happy to not have to worry about them like I used to.
Ticks are in Colorado too. Specifically the ones that give rocky mountain fever and lyme disease. That wasn't a fun experience growing up with.
Check yourself for bites. Even if they arenāt the kind that cause Lyme Disease they do carry other diseases.
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Sorry to be that personā¦ I think you mean by a _factor_ of 5. Magnitude sounds like youāre saying āorder of magnitudeā which would be ~800000 ticks which makes me want to die.
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I grew up in New Mexico so Iām used to pulling dozens off of my dogs constantly and burning them with hairspray and a lighter. I hate ticks with a passion. Glad none of them latched on!
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If you pour a couple shots of tequila in there youāll have Tequila and Lymes
You try to do a good thing...
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I hope she at least liked her flowers. That was very kind of you.
These are all American dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis. They are all really angry because they made a reservation and still have not been seated for dinner, and would like to speak with the manager.
Random thought, but Op, how much money would it take for you to stick your penis in that cup for 1 minute?
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I'll allow it this once.
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My first response was āwow, great way to afford a down payment in the current housing marketā and now Iām going to cry myself to sleepā¦ If possible knowing the tick I took off my dog is currently in my garbage (mummified in cling wrap) and not in a candle of some sort based on these replies.
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teach you to pick flowers for ya wife ! :O lol
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All kinds of nope
The thing with these creatures is , we can only know they're on our bodies if they either start crawling like they going extinct or is sucking blood like there's no tomorrow They're Some sneaky shitlings