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I read last year that they're experimenting with high-pressured spraying of Alaskan cedar nootkatone and carvacrol, both plant compounds.
They reported 42 days of finding no ticks on the ground post-spraying.
So....I wonder what's going on with this research. I think it was being conducted in the east or SE somewhere.
I've been thinking this is the way to go, with a nontoxic spray, since we can't save every animal and person on this planet from the infected tick problem.
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Why can't every community get GUINEA HENS??
Not expensive, Enviromentally GREEN, NO Chemicals and LOW Maintance
We have those annoying Canadian Geese everywhere here, and all they do is CRAP! Yuck!!
That would be a great Community activist project that would only benefint EVERYONE who lives and visits in every community.
We Need to DECREASE the tick population and raise awareness!!
Christy Brinkley has em all over her long island property, and so do many residents in Westchester NY!!
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For awhile they were putting up some kind of gadgets that when deer would feed ( I think on feeders of some sort) that they would have to put their necks through something that had Sevin dust on it.
Guess it didn't work or was not widespread enough to really help us.
Malathion wouldn't kill them. I'm pretty sure. The things that would are usually fairly toxic... like chlordane. I don't think you can even buy it anymore.
Guineas would be great if you could stand the noise they make!!
Robin... what you posted sounds VERY good!!
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Spraying or any method won't kill all of the ticks in all of the places..
But like I always say... it is better to go outside and face a handful of them rather than thousands at a time.
Check out the "Creating A Safe Zone" article by scrolling down the page.
They give tax credits to property owners who have their properties sprayed,
and who spend the money to put up really high fences to keep the deer out, and maybe that would keep other critters out as well.
And they should make the doctors include a really good lab test for Lyme and co-infections as part of a yearly physical,
or make tests free for anyone who wants ,,,,,
can't we get AIDS tests anytime...
are they not free?
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Even if there was a way to do it, it wouldn't solve the problem.
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In Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring," published in 1962, she said that people had noticed an upswing in the number of ticks after everyone was using DDT to kill insects.
Insects have six legs. Ticks have eight, like spiders. Insecticides don't always kill spiders and ticks. Someone with a background in this could explain more.
I think it would be easier to eradicate a different animal that is part of the cycle of tick borne infection, like mice or deer.
When deer were killed off on certain islands, the number of infected ticks went waaaay down. Deer are proliferating because of the lack of natural predators, which would normally keep them in check.
There are many factors involved, and man has upset the balance, what with DDT and killing off the wolves and other predators.
Carol
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Someone sprayed TKO Orange all over their acreage in Mendocino Cty, CA and reported seeing no more ticks.
TKO Orange is biodegradable, the essential oil from oranges, which is how oranges fight off bugs.
I'm not saying that TKO Orange is the solution, but I still think a good spray plan could do a lot.
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read last year that they're experimenting with high-pressured spraying of Alaskan cedar nootkatone and carvacrol, both plant compounds.
They reported 42 days of finding no ticks on the ground post-spraying.
So....I wonder what's going on with this research. I think it was being conducted in the east or SE somewhere.
I've been thinking this is the way to go, with a nontoxic spray, since we can't save every animal and person on this planet from the infected tick problem.
I went to a CDC meeting in Wausau this summer and they mentioned this. They also mentioned that it is not the deer we have to worry about it is the rodents.
I think I remember something about them looking into a way to fix the rodents so they don't spread it to the deer and people any more.
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Though ticks aren't as prevalent as ants in the world population of insects (~1/3 of all insect weight on Earth is ants!), there's still a mind-boggling # of ticks out there.
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