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Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 08:20:43 No.665535 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>665646 >>665764 >>665796 >>666155 >>667647 >>669474

How often do you get these fuckers where you /out/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 10:36:01 No.665571 Report

Quoted By: >>665572 >>666017

I gues on half the trips one latches on.

Last one that got me crawled in my butcrack and I had to ask a buddy to remove it. It was kinda awkward.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 10:44:51 No.665572 Report

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>>665571
Totally not gay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 12:03:14 No.665579 Report

Quoted By: >>665594 >>665698

Literally every fucking time, my dogs have spot on stuff so the ticks leave them alone but lucky me I get all the attention. Anyone got any suggestions to keep them off? DEET is fucking useless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 12:23:57 No.665580 Report

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i get them a lot. but it's no big deal. i just make sure to check when i take a shower at home and remove any of the fuckers i can find.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 13:23:46 No.665594 Report

Quoted By: >>665595

>>665579
Maybe your feet isn't concentrated enough? Most products are pretty weak. I use a 90 percent solution and it works for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 13:24:58 No.665595 Report

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>>665594
Lel. Deet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 13:26:32 No.665597 Report

Quoted By: >>665674

Try wearing long socks and pants and long sleeved shirts as well. Get a lot at my cabin and thats the best thing you can do, I dont even use deet. Not 100% effective but still works pretty well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 13:31:59 No.665600 Report

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I don't mind them, all memeing aside I grew up getting tons of ticks playing in the woods so I think their "shock" value of finding one on me is gone. Deconditioning yourself as an adult might be harder...either way its not a big deal, just pluck them off. Its just another of a bajillion realities about going outside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 13:48:30 No.665603 Report

Quoted By: >>666007 >>666152 >>669340

Has anyone ever gotten Lyme disease before while /out/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:12:14 No.665634 Report

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Minnesota here. In summer? Literally every trip, even walking down the road next to tall grass. I started counting after a job up an eight mile trail. At home before a shower I counted 43. Just everywhere

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:31:30 No.665642 Report

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I'm in Connecticut, which means barberry, which means fucktons of ticks. One time I found 5 on me after a day out. Less than 1% of deer ticks carry Lyme, and transmission risk is low if they have been latched on for less than 24 hours. Just check yourself every day you're in a tick area and keep tweezers. Lyme is nasty, it can cause bell's palsy, neurological damage, and joint damage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:43:20 No.665643 Report

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>>665642
What ct anon are you?
>haven't had a tick bite in 3-4 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:45:26 No.665644 Report

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I have this stuff called Chigg-Away I got from a buddy that was about to deploy. It's back at the house, I'll have to post it when I get home. It's pretty greasy tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 16:59:38 No.665646 Report

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>>665535
Literally every time.

Had one on me just yesterday after being out in the woods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 17:39:34 No.665674 Report

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>>665597
>Try wearing long socks and pants and long sleeved shirts as well
who's wearing that shit in the summer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 18:09:02 No.665698 Report

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>>665579
Permethrin.
Don't use it if you got cats though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 18:18:28 No.665703 Report

Quoted By: >>669277 >>669284

Almost every time I'm /out/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 19:03:13 No.665730 Report

Quoted By: >>665739 >>665759

What did people do before we had insect repellants? Was it not as much of an issue back then?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 19:16:20 No.665739 Report

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>>665730
Lyme disease used to be concentrated to a small area. So it wasn't something to worry about.
It's the only reason they bother me at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 19:44:04 No.665759 Report

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>>665730
well think about it. assuming we are derived from apes, we became skinless possibly as an evolutionary trait against thinks like ticks. it may even be that the proverbial missing link died off from hairyness, and we are the darwinistic outcome. so its not that we never had an issue with it, just that those of us

also we've had insect repellent for a long time. such as what sticks or herbs to add to your fire to ward off insects is one of the older knowledges we created. some african tribes use certain muds as both antiseptics and second skins, similar to some animals. im no anthropologist but its hard to assume there was much "before insect repellent"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 19:46:59 No.665764 Report

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>>665535
prioritize... i work outside all summer and have never gotten bit. also dress and pack appropriately or even avoid certain areas
>
1. dehydration, sun exposure
2. wild parsnip, poison oak/ivy, wasps, hornets, bees
3. chiggers, ticks, mosquitos, deer/horse flys, black flys, gnats

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 19:54:03 No.665773 Report

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Never, ever.
And I walk through long grass, Bush and temperate rainforests in short sleeves and shorts.
>based New Zealand

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 20:24:46 No.665796 Report

Quoted By: >>665884 >>665990 >>666023

>>665535
From a person who lives in one of the tickiest parts of Southern Ontario, would any anons from the PNW be able to tell me how bad it is around your neck of the woods? I remember running through a 100 acre meadow on Vancouver Island, and maybe got two blackleggeds on me. If I did the same thing here, I'd have hundreds of deer ticks ceawling all over me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jan 2016 22:53:12 No.665884 Report

Quoted By: >>669334

>>665796
It's not bad at all. I've gotten like two ticks in 3 years of living and hiking around the PNW.

Meanwhile, my record in Missouri was 92 ticks in 24 hours.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 02:04:35 No.665990 Report

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>>665796
vancouver island here, I've hiked crosscountry for years and never once had a tick. They don't exist

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 02:16:04 No.665995 Report

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My greatest defence against them is cutting my hair really short so the fuckers don't have a place to hide.
I lothe ticks and I want to kill all of them in horrific ways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 02:26:57 No.666007 Report

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>>665603
Not Lyme disease, but I got relapsing fever a couple years ago from a deer tick while playing disk golf. It was like getting a flu back to back to back. The worse part about it is when you start feeling better the last time you start worrying about it coming back again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 02:36:59 No.666017 Report

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>>665571
This is perfectly normal in the military. Here in Australian we'd check each other every morning if the buggers were in season and depending on what training area we were in.

Once woke up with 16 and I saw one guy lose the use of his arm from a paralysis tick. Spinning them as you pull them out helps.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 02:40:38 No.666023 Report

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>>665796
Never gotten a tick. Only seen one once, on my doge. We don't do bugs much around these parts. Blew my mind the first time I went camping in Wisconsin. Also, Missouri is awful for them, but for some reason I only found one, crawling, and hadn't attached, and the lady got like ten. Which I then had to pull in the tent. Good reason to get her naked though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 04:02:50 No.666085 Report

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I've only ever had 1 on me and that happened last spring. The wild asparagus was still coming up in mid June for some reason. Bastard must have been in the high weeds. It was a lone star tick, but according to the geographic distribution maps they aren't in Michigan...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 04:25:07 No.666099 Report

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>>665674
Not that anon, but I always wear full length pants and long shirts when out during the summer. It's also a reason I don't go too far out when it's hot. Early spring and Autumn weather are much more enjoyable anyways, even winter is better. Summers are for relaxing on the patio or wasting money at the gun range.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 05:43:30 No.666152 Report

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>>665603
My dad got it working as a land surveyor. Almost seemed inevitable with how often we saw ticks on us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 05:49:05 No.666155 Report

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>>665535
Makes me glad to live in the desert

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 06:46:37 No.666200 Report

Quoted By: >>669336

They're terrible here in Georgia. A relative of mine got somehow got Lyme here and they've never been north of South Carolina. It's my worst fear going out. Why doesn't somebody eradicate like they're planning on doing to mosquitoes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 17:27:58 No.666433 Report

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California here. My dad used to take me on hunting trips and I was in the Boy Scouts. Never once did I ever experience a Tick. Even on my solo hiking trips nowadays I check myself when I get home and I never find anything.

Maybe I'm just hiking when they are not in season? I'm still amazed by my own luck because I'm actually absolutely terrified of getting one, the thought of some creature sticking its face into my body just squicks the fuck out of me.

I've also never experienced poison oak.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Jan 2016 17:38:09 No.666441 Report

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I enjoy camping a few weeks every year and enjoy going hiking during the year as well

my wife and kids don't enjoy it like I do but I am encouraged to go /out/ and do it

I come home pretty often with a tick

the wife and kids make jokes that "dad has bugs"

I have had to be de-ticked by the wife on several occasions.

I usually do self inspections daily when camping and try to remove them before they get their head completely buried.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jan 2016 07:09:45 No.667647 Report

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>>665535
I have a scar from a paralysis tick on my side.
Another healing on my wrist.

Farts and poop

Farts and poop Tue 19 Jan 2016 15:04:13 No.669277 Report

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>>665703
underrated Pepe

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 15:14:52 No.669284 Report

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>>665703
Unlike most dumb frogposts this made me kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 17:08:00 No.669333 Report

Quoted By: >>669803

They're the fucking worse. I've only really ever found them on my socks and underwear since I try to be well covered. Hiking through the Indiana dunes is a fucking bug nightmare - Tick infestation, swarms of mosquito's, etc.

You just gotta try to pick them off and search your body best as possible. They can't be crushed and take forever to drown, but the toilet seems to be a good disposal tool

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 17:08:03 No.669334 Report

Quoted By: >>669337

>>665884
I'm planning on moving to Prince Rupert next year, so that's really good to hear. As ridiculous as it is, I love spending as much time as possible in wild areas, but have a huge fear of ticks that started when I got really sick from Lyme's disease.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 17:09:52 No.669336 Report

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>>666200
Trips of truth. The world could be a much better place without ticks and mosquito's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 17:12:49 No.669337 Report

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>>669334
I was bedridden for two months, and became extremely weak and sluggish for years. I'm finally starting to feel stronger, but it was hell going through the disease.

The remaining uncivilized beings and landscapes of the world are among those that I love the most, but they can sometimes bring unexpected effects, as I figured out after I saw the bullseye bruise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 17:19:19 No.669340 Report

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>>665603
Every family member

Vaccinated against TBE though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 21:38:06 No.669474 Report

Quoted By:

>>665535
never had one

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 21:54:04 No.669485 Report

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These things are so annoying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jan 2016 22:03:55 No.669493 Report

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>live in kentucky
>go to woods
>leave with 30 of these fuckers on you

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 12:42:03 No.669803 Report

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>>669333
You can crush them though, just gotta be inventive. I use the flat sides of two knives (or whatever really), press one in the middle, then the other on a side and it pops the fuckers, or just rips them in half. Fucking hate ticks and fleas and any stupid fucking parasitic bug.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 13:09:07 No.669807 Report

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I live in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and there were never ticks on the island portion until fuckers didn't check themselves/their dogs and brought them over from the mainland in recent years.
Now there are growing populations on the west coast.
It's too bad because our province is basically an /out/ paradise

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Jan 2016 16:20:36 No.669874 Report

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Last season I got maybe 4. 3 were on my legs, 1 was on my stomach.

Come spring I intend to start wearing gaiters to stop them getting in at the ankle.

As for the one on my stomach, I wasn't being vigilant with my jacket - took off my outer layers to chop some wood and had just flung it down, guess the little fuck got onto it.

The little crowbar looking removal tools are useless.

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