The Great Outdoors

[twocoach]

I don’t miss that.

We have ticks at this elevation, but don’t think I’ve seen 6 of them in the last 10 years

There is one mountain bike trail near town that runs right down by the Missouri River and I stopped riding it after finding more than ten ticks on me after one ride of about an hour long. Just typing this makes my skin itch. It's been a wet spring here so I am sure they are thick out there right now.

[ousdahl]

Didn’t we discuss that tick fighting initiative in like Maine where they put little brushes with insecticide in paper towel tubes? The mice are natural carriers of ticks, and also naturally wanna crawl through shit like a paper towel tube

[pdub]

11 in 48 hours.
Nasty.

Fortunately they are all dog ticks and not deer ticks. But still, fuck em.

[jfish26]

Found one latched to my daughter's ear a couple weeks back.

[jhawks99]

Found one latched to my daughter's ear a couple weeks back.

I can imagine the drama that ensued.

[pdub]

We forgot to bring it with us "up to camp" ( still will never get used to this saying - it's not a camp if it's a house and it's not always up ) but peppermint oil will remove the tick without tweezers.

Then alcohol will kill em.

Currently have all eleven floating in a small jar of vodka. We are here 6 more days. Under/over set to 22.5.

[Deleted User 89]

is that now like the worm in the tequila?

[ousdahl]

Pro tip:

if you want the ticks to leave you alone then maybe you should stop serving them drinks.

[pdub]

Hair of the dog tick.

[Deleted User 880]

If you are making a daiquiri, gimlet, margarita, mojito, and you put a tick in it, you may not need to add lyme.

[TDub]

Burnem off. Had one in my eyelid once. My dad had matches. It was a grand time.

[jfish26]

Found one latched to my daughter's ear a couple weeks back.

I can imagine the drama that ensued.

It was actually ok. Got the whole thing out (head intact) with tweezers. Put the sucker in a ziploc for a couple days to ensure the kiddo didn't show symptoms of something. All good.

[jhawks99]

Burnem off. Had one in my eyelid once. My dad had matches. It was a grand time.

My uncle just used his cigarette.

[Deleted User 89]

cards expire. species shouldn’t.

[Deleted User 89]

https://pnas.org/content/118/22/e2023251118

Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation

[sdoyel]

[ousdahl]

The building's not going as he planned
The foreman has injured his hand
The dozer will not clear a path
The driver swears he learned his math
The workers are going home
The workers are going home
The workers are going home
The workers are going home

[thebones]

11 in 48 hours.
Nasty.

Fortunately they are all dog ticks and not deer ticks. But still, fuck em.

We camped at Clinton Bloomington East Elm last weekend, and the ticks were the worst I've ever experienced out there. Climate change is apparently contributing to tick expansion.

Doused my body with deet, but like an idiot I didn't perform a regular body scan. Monday night I randomly found a Lone Star tick on my lower torso. It could have been attached for 72 hours. So far no bullseye infection.

One of camper's 10 year old son got tick latched onto his penis. We were calling him "tricky ticky dick". I feel bad about that in retrospect.

Anyway, from what I've read, ticks must be removed in less than 36 hours to be safe from lyme bacteria intrusion.

There had only been 310 confirmed cases of lyme in Kansas from 2000 - 2018, but likely 10 times that.

https://www.tickcheck.com/stats/state/kansas/lyme

A week before camp trip my dad told me about his neighbor. Healthy 30 year-old woman who contracted lyme, and is now a bed-ridden invalid requiring 24/7 home care.

Lyme is no joke. I'll be coated with picaridin next time in wilderness.

Be safe out there.

[Deleted User 89]

thanks for the reminder about the desert’s silver lining

[Sparko]

You would think some palliative anti-biotic to stave off possible Lyme disease would be generally available for people who are not running industrial scale farms.