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Originally Posted by Senorita Lemon
Sounds like deer ticks to me. I used to see them on a farm I had in Southern Illinois adjacent to a national forest. When tricks reproduce it's like the plague in that location.
I had a small spot like that on the farm where brown ticks were. Every time I was there for more than a few minutes I had them on me.
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Ticks that are most commonly associated with lyme disease are of the genera
Ixodes (deer ticks) and
Amblyomma (lone star tick). Deer ticks are very tiney and the lone star tick is brown with a white spot. So far none of these ticks bothering me look like these.
On another forum in a guerrilla field thread I was given all sorts of suggestions:
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Originally Posted by barnetmill View Post
From time to time I buy permethrin to spray my house for roaches. Is it safe use this same mixture to spray the shoes and the outside of lower pants legs with this pesticide? I certainly can also get some sulfur. I assume it should be a pure sulfur powder and not a salt like Sodium sulfate. I might also try avon skin so soft which I use against our NWFL yellow flys (Sort of a vicious deer fly). I think it was Texican gal that also mentioned CedarCide. I will have to look these up. The dryer sheets are maybe a thing to use.
These ticks that are latching on to me are bigger than the lyme carriers, but they might carry other things, but if they are here then the lyme tics could also be here. I have noticed more deer sign lately and the ticks could be associated with that increased presence.
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