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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 48324" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sorry, I seem to have missed the reference to duct tape. How is it supposed to work? Never heard of this one, and we get a lot of ticks in our area. I got one the other night, just from brushing past a tree (which I suspect had recently been brushed by a deer). I found it before it attached, though.</p><p></p><p>I always welcome new ideas - fill me in on this one.</p><p></p><p>Our remedy which really worked for difficult child 3 after his heavy load of ticks at school - DEET insect repellent, tropical strength. Wrists, ankles, neck, waist. Reapply every time he goes outside to play. Any weaker repellent - I think they drink it as a pre-dinner cocktail.</p><p></p><p>I remember when I was a kid, staying overnight one summer on my uncle's veranda on his farm at Coffs Harbour. I'd slept in a sleeping bag with his mangy little terrier asleep between my knees. When I woke in the morning it was to the whoosh of a cropduster, spraying the banana plantations which grow there on the almost vertical mountainsides. The plane flew to the top of the mountain, cut its engine and went into a stall as it sprayed. It disappeared below the hill and I heard the engine splutter to life as he climbed back up to do the next run. Each time he looked like he was going to nose-five into the ground. I was so fascinated I didn't notice that the dog had deposited a vast load of ticks onto my sleeping bag and they were crawling up to the mouth of the bag. Amazingly, I didn't get any latch on, but there were loads of them all over the calico couch I'd been lying on. It looked like someone had sprinkled dark sand over the couch, there were so many. I think the dog must have been immune - when I checked the dog later, it was loaded. I don't know why my uncle didn't do anything about it - he was running cattle on his farm and these were the ones that grow to be the big cattle killers, the Ixodes species. If he'd at least sprayed the dog it would have been safer for the livestock.</p><p></p><p>All that spray, too, for the bananas - and still, all those ticks. Seems like it was more than the dog that was immune.</p><p></p><p>I really don't like ticks. We have a pair of very fine forceps which I use to get ticks out (or splinters). A tick never gets to stay attached for longer than a couple of hours - I think we're all sensitised to them, now. And since we got a front fence, we don't get ticks on the property, because the deer can't get on to our property. We're even bandicoot-proof, and I don't think our possums carry ticks except very occasionally. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 48324, member: 1991"] Sorry, I seem to have missed the reference to duct tape. How is it supposed to work? Never heard of this one, and we get a lot of ticks in our area. I got one the other night, just from brushing past a tree (which I suspect had recently been brushed by a deer). I found it before it attached, though. I always welcome new ideas - fill me in on this one. Our remedy which really worked for difficult child 3 after his heavy load of ticks at school - DEET insect repellent, tropical strength. Wrists, ankles, neck, waist. Reapply every time he goes outside to play. Any weaker repellent - I think they drink it as a pre-dinner cocktail. I remember when I was a kid, staying overnight one summer on my uncle's veranda on his farm at Coffs Harbour. I'd slept in a sleeping bag with his mangy little terrier asleep between my knees. When I woke in the morning it was to the whoosh of a cropduster, spraying the banana plantations which grow there on the almost vertical mountainsides. The plane flew to the top of the mountain, cut its engine and went into a stall as it sprayed. It disappeared below the hill and I heard the engine splutter to life as he climbed back up to do the next run. Each time he looked like he was going to nose-five into the ground. I was so fascinated I didn't notice that the dog had deposited a vast load of ticks onto my sleeping bag and they were crawling up to the mouth of the bag. Amazingly, I didn't get any latch on, but there were loads of them all over the calico couch I'd been lying on. It looked like someone had sprinkled dark sand over the couch, there were so many. I think the dog must have been immune - when I checked the dog later, it was loaded. I don't know why my uncle didn't do anything about it - he was running cattle on his farm and these were the ones that grow to be the big cattle killers, the Ixodes species. If he'd at least sprayed the dog it would have been safer for the livestock. All that spray, too, for the bananas - and still, all those ticks. Seems like it was more than the dog that was immune. I really don't like ticks. We have a pair of very fine forceps which I use to get ticks out (or splinters). A tick never gets to stay attached for longer than a couple of hours - I think we're all sensitised to them, now. And since we got a front fence, we don't get ticks on the property, because the deer can't get on to our property. We're even bandicoot-proof, and I don't think our possums carry ticks except very occasionally. Marg [/QUOTE]
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