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mullet:
I heard something interesting while I was hunting at Pappy's. Sodbuster told me the DNR, or whoever is in charge of wildlife in Tenn. has been releaseing a Boatload of Pygmy Rattlesnakes into the wild. It seem's their primary food source is ticks.
stickbender:
Let's see, tick bite, snake bite, tick bite......uh I'll take tick bite. I just put a little tea tree oil around my feet and socks, and lower pants. I just put a couple drops in my hands rub them together, and rub on my boots, and socks, and lower pants legs, and around my neck. The smell dissipates after awhile. But I also tuck my pants legs into my boots also. You can tape the pants legs also. As for getting them off, I am like Dana, just pull em off. The soap, or oil, covers the breathing ventricles, which is on their sides, like most insects, and mites, etc. those little slotted tools, and special tweezers, work ok. I haven't gotten any ticks on me in Montana, when I was in the woods in the summer, but they are there, because every deer I have killed in the winter, is covered in them. They are weird looking. They look more like a large mite, or louse. Their body is sort of elongated, not like the wood ticks down here. In fact they sort of remind me of small soft water beetles. Without the sharp forearms. They are bad in Va. I went up to Connecticut, to help a friend take some horses up there years ago We stopped off at Petersburg battle field, for a break, and I told her that I was stationed there at Ft, Lee, for a little while when I was in the army, and showed her around the park. Well we went on and stopped at a restaurant and I went in to the bathroom, and washed my hands, and was combing my handle bar mustash, when I felt something, and yep, it was a wood tick. I immediately checked all other post puberty parts, including the hair on my head, that at that time I had.
Wayne
jamie:
Wayne those square bodied bugs are louse.
stickbender:
Jamie, they aren't square bodied, they are flat like a wood tick, but just a little longer in the body. They have a tick head, and legs, just shaped a little differently than what I am used to seeing. If they are Lice they are big ones! :o But the poor Deer, are usually well supplied with them. Soon as the body cools, you can see a few of them crawling around on the hide.
Wayne
cowboy:
Rattlesnakes eat ticks? Man, that's a new one on me, hehheheh. I just pull em off and squish em with my thumbnail - foolproof....
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