Topic: ticks crawl, right? do they climb up lawn chairs?
LisaK
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anyone ever see or get a tick this way? I think I am going to spray the chairs.
any other ways to get tick that I didn't think of?
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I would think they could!! If they smell the pheromones, they will travel wherever they need to go. All they have to do is get on your feet and UP they go!
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TF
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Ticks can climb up ANYTHING. Even slippery things. They can cling to things very well.
So, sitting on my elevated deck in a deck chair getting some sun, I got a tick crawling on me within 10 minutes. Fortunately, I felt it.
So, think how much crawling from the grass or ground it had to do to get to me. That is nothing for them.
I agree with Lymetoo, that if they smell your pheromones and they smell pleasant to them, they will travel far to get to you. I attract ticks and mosquitoes. I have the wonderful smelling pheromones. So, I can get a tick on me very quickly no matter where I am.
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Tincup
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Absolutely they can crawl up a chair, as TF said. The lone star ticks and others, but mostly lone star ticks, will climb up in trees and drop down on a potential host. They can be in the eves of houses too and in rain gutters where it is moist.
I had one drop from a ceiling in a retail store- low ceiling, old building- onto my arm one day.
Perhaps get an old blanket or sheet and spray it with the clothing type of permanone- the one that kills ticks- and put it on the ground under your chair. That way the tick must crawl across the treated material and it will die before it can get to you.
Permanone kills the ticks, it isn't like a repellent that tries to deter them.
LisaK
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good idea for blanket Tincup. I was going to jsut bring my bottle of tick spray and spray the grass around where I would sit.
falling out of a store ceiling- that is just nuts.
I guess they like me because I get them. but mosquitos don't really like me. so I guess it's different smells for different bugs.
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just don
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A VERY good reason to umbrella trim your trees where ever you live.
That means to trim them so the lowest hanging branches are a couple feet above your head as you walk under them
As in mowing the grass or just walking thru. Its a great opportunity to brush off bugs onto you.
Especially important if you have red spider mites. Also hackberry trees have a special bug on them.
Cant see them but you will itch like crazy till you shower.
The red spider mite lives in all all needled pine trees except cedar. You drag them into your house and spread there domain.
VERY hard to get rid of. Feels like a pinch bite and wont go away till you rub that spot. Juveniles are mostly impossible to see
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Keebler
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- Lisa,
Probably best not to spray any lawn furniture, other than the furniture feet. Otherwise, there could be transfer to hands, clothes - and inadvertently, eyes (or mouths of toddlers & pets).
for your lungs and neuro tissue, I'd be very careful about spraying. There is no way to keep that out of your lungs, really. Or, maybe if you wear a very special mask.
There may be other ways to do this, though I've just not looked into it. I just know that sprays travel into our lungs, eyes and can affect our nerves in damaging ways. So be careful yourself, and mindful of any open windows or other people around, and pets, too.
Maybe getting a large cone (like a large dog might wear after a certain treatment) to cover the sprayer from the nozzle so that the larger end of the cone is right where you want to apply it would help, I wonder. -
[ 07-05-2015, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: Keebler ]
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LisaK
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keebler, ok. I was thinking about that. I think I got spray happy. uh oh.
my son went away on a mission trip to help people redo their houses and al lthe kids are sleeping on the floor in a big room and some of them will be doing yard work.
I was going to spray his sleeping bag, but I didn't. I thought it be too much in case he eats on it or whatever.
they are in Maryland. near trees. I can only pray he goes unscathed!!
JustDon good idea. I need to do this. always bumping trees with my big head!!!
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I know for sure that the brown dog ticks will crawl up something -
I was out inline skating a year or two ago and I stopped on the trail at a park bench because I was tired. I sat down, looked down and saw a brown dog tick crawling on the trail. He must have sensed me because he crawled towards me and started up my skate. I knocked him off and ran him over to kill him.
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LisaK
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bastard tick!!! they do like me. people call me tick magnet, but I think a lot of people are, they just don't ever see the darn things.!
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WPinVA
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I love the blanket idea. I spray my kids' sneakers with Permethrin every so often.
My daughter was sitting at the table in my in-laws' kitchen eating breakfast INSIDE when a tick started crawling up her leg. Must have dropped off one of their dogs onto the floor.
Words cannot explain how freaked out she was and I was. My MIL - not so much - "oh it's just a tick."
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LisaK
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when I go to my parents' house at the end of this month (they live in VA ) I am going to take a bottle and spray everything when they are not looking!
they have such a tick problem and fleas!!!
and the mosquitoes are as big as apples!
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MADDOG
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I found one in my tool box crawling on a pair of vise grips.
I held them up ,jaws to the top, the tick climbed up them and stopped with 4 legs in the jaws.
I clamped them down trapping it by four legs. It was flailing around trying to get out.
A huge wrench just jumped out of the tool box and beat the tick into mush.
THAT FELT SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But not to the tick.
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LisaK
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I never see ticks crawling around. I only see them attached. well, one in my bed! this past yr, but it wasn't' crawling becasue it wsa so stinkin fat full of someone's blood!
I do feel sorry for all bugs I kill though. but I must. I must survive and if that means killing bugs so be it.
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MADDOG
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The tick in my tool box got in there while I was in pennsylvania seeing my LLMD.
My fuel pump had failed, I replaced in in front of a auto Zone. My tool box got the tick off of the sidewalk there.
EEEEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!
No wonder there is a LLMD there!!!!!
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LisaK
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I am in them there hills. yes, many ticks here, but I have never seen them crawl on ground or sidewalks- only up my legs!
maybe I just never looked before.???????
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