I have a tick. When I yawn my left hand raises up involuntarily

 

We have to watch out for Lyme disease here. No lonestar ticks but they still carry Lyme disease.

 

Girlfriend feeds the deer in the backyard, wound up with a tick bite with the classic bullseye rash. Tested positive for Lyme, they gave her a round of antibiotics, never retested her after that............perhaps that explains a lot?

 

Thanks for the info Terry.

This is one case where I wish we weren't in the top 20%.

It's not as bad were we live. But if we ever go north we wear clothing sprayed with Permethrine. I forgot to do that on one dirtbike trip and was pretty much freaking out thinking I was going to get bit. Turned out I had a tick on me, but hadn't bit me yet. Thank God. I'll never make that mistake again.

 

I watch a couple of hunting websites here in Ohio. Anybody out spring turkey hunting is complaining how many they have been pulling off of them!

 

A little TOAK tip. Dont ride dirt bikes under trees. Cowboys here never ride under trees. The tick can feel the vibration and they will drop out of the tree to try and land on a host.

 

The TOAK comes thru again!

 

Hello all. Good advice on ticks.

 

Good tip, but here in Wisconsin you wouldn't be riding. It's almost all in the trees. The ride i referenced was deep forest and very slow going through rutted single track. At some points in the trail the tree branches would be brushing against me. I was basically a shuttle for ticks.

Permetherine is like a force field though. Ticks HATE the stuff and will do anything they can go get off clothing coated with it. And it's not just direct contact. The fumes, or whatever, keeps pretty much any bug away. Even mosquitoes. On one trip I was wearing coated clothing. The other guys weren't. It was after a long rain and the Mosquitoes were swarming. The other guys were getting devoured. I didn't get one bite. Stuff is amazing. Pretty toxic too. I think it gave me night vision and an extra ********.

 

Something is going to get you Bob, might as well be a third ********!