Well, we have a LOT of ticks here in SE Michigan this year. I spray my clothes AND myself with the highest DEET repellant available, IIRC 25% or 40% whenever I go out to work anywhere except my driveway. Also bought some TALSTAR to spray the yard. Bought some Permethrin to spray our everyday work clothes. Supposed to last through 6 washings. We use Advantix(?) on our dogs (GSPs) who run though the woods/fields daily. We give them a cursory check for ticks when they come in from a long day outside and rarely find any. But when we clean the bed they sleep in, we find a LOT of dead ticks, so the stuff DOES work.
In spite of all our prevention we do occasionally find a tick on ourselves. They're always dog ticks which don't transmit lyme disease but CAN transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia. Wife and I each had one last week that had started to attach but didn't get deep enough to start to blood feed. I hear it takes a while (10 minutes to hours) to start to feed.
Interestingly, we usually see only the adult ticks but 2 wks ago, I had one on my arm that only had 6 legs and doing some checking, I found it was a dog tick in the nymph stage. It was slightly smaller than an adult and research says the tick needs a blood meal at all of it's life cycle stages to move to the next.
Read a good tip recently: I put the ticks we find on us under a piece of clear tape on an index card. I figure if I start to get sick with symptoms of tick related disease, I can have them tested.
Anyway, ticks are another reason why I look forward to winter around here :D
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