LymeNet Flash: Ticks on the rocks!

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Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :

This report is from a semi-annual LDAC meeting we had last week - Lyme Disease Advisory Committee - who advises the state re dealing with Lyme disease. This got everyone talking.

I think we need to think about our outside sitting behavior. I do bring bug repellent spray when outside.

https://www.lymedisease.org/touched-lyme-hikers-think-twice-sitting-rocks/?utm_source=march+13--news&utm_campaign=March+13--NPR%2C+etc&utm_medium=email

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

Thanks for this ...

Me .. NO sitting anywhere outside unless it's on my lawn chair. Even then, I'd have to be concerned about where my lawn chair was sitting.

Outdoors and I no longer gel.

Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :

I was shocked when I read this story earlier today. Logs and tree trunks I knew where not a safe seat.

But a rock....oh my. Are the son of a guns out sunning atop the rocks? Certainly not the areas we've been warned about for years.

Pam

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

I keep my "blankie" with me at all times.

It is a ground cloth, made of a soft, but strong cloth that is pink on one side and green on the other. It is about the size of a ground cloth for a pup tent.

See the 2nd picture on this page. It's my blankie under my tent when I went camping in the mountain a few years ago.

https://sites.google.com/site/virginialyme/prevention?pli=1

Every spring I spray it with Permanone, let it dry real good, roll it up and keep it in the car- ready to use.

You can put it on a lawn chair before you sit down, or even better, lay it on the ground under it.

Then you would have your own little "protected area" for as long as you are sitting there because the Permanone will kill any ticks that try to crawl on it.

I suggested using the groundcloth idea to someone who had to attend an outdoor graduation ceremony on the school's lawn and really didn't want to go, very upset, because of the possibility of getting ticks on them.

When they returned I heard back from them. They were thrilled that they actually felt comfortable at the graduation, when they expected to be freaked out the whole time.

Of course the "cloth" can also be tossed on top of a rock you want to sit on, but maybe a pillow would be better. At least it would be softer on the bum.

[lol]

Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :

I just stepped on one this weekend, fully engorged tick that dropped from my cat.

I pulled 3 fully engorged ticks last week from her.

Then stepped on one, that popped out, and it was so big I thought I had stepped on a blueberry , on the laundry concrete floor.

Gross... Fortunately I was wearing slippers!

So, if the tick dropped behind the washing machine it would have laid eggs in there.

Then well, I would have had hundreds of little friends on a concrete floor, inside my own house, to deal with sometime in the near future.

So yes, wherever the female pregnant tick drops, after being engorged, the little babies will come out, no matter where, I suppose?!

Such engorged ticks cannot walk, for sure. They are too big, really BLUEBERRY size, to walk.....

Wherever host animals drop their engorged ticks, we may find nymphs!!

Posted by Bid3 (Member # 47299) on :

I wonder if they would hang out on sidewalks and asphalt as well? So much for feeling safe by staying off the grass.