Latest you've found Ticks?

Had two ticks on me today after an hour walk in the woods putting out a trail camera. I kind of thought they would be done by now, what’s the latest anyone else has found a tick?

Good question as I was literally wondering the same thing today. I haven’t had any lately.

We had 5 on two dogs the other day. Normally they come out for a short time in the fall. Never had one on a dog in November that I can remember.

Took my pooch to the vet in April this year. She said with the mild winter they were finding ticks on pets all winter long. Grass and weeds showing so they didn’t go away all winter. Recommended giving Bravecto all year long. Dam things are getting worse every year it seems.

ClownColor wrote:

I had them crawling on me during last years deer rifle season…so early November.

Yep. Me too, it was a warm opener

haleysgold wrote:

Recommended giving Bravecto all year long.

That’s why I was wondering. I think the pooch is due in November. Not sure if I should dose again or not. The stuff isn’t cheap.

Maybe it’s just around my house but regularly seeing 2-3 on the dog every day after she comes out of the tall grass. Out in full force around my house right now.

What’s odd is I didn’t find one tick from probably June until mid September on the dog. Bizzare.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>haleysgold wrote:</div>
Recommended giving Bravecto all year long.

That’s why I was wondering. I think the pooch is due in November. Not sure if I should dose again or not. The stuff isn’t cheap.

So what is more strange. I live in the country. All the pets the vet saw, live in town ! I give my dog the last dose of Bravecto in September. Town animals get more ticks in the winter. Vet said cuz it’s warmer and more exposed grass/weeds. Go figure.

I have been leaving the possums alone around my house and they are becoming more and more populated. I haven’t had a tick at home all year and I am in the woods/fields every day. They say a possum can eat up to 400,000 ticks a year per possum.

Want another, Sticker?

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Sticker r u serious?

Have not heard that one before.

ClownColor wrote:

I had them crawling on me during last years deer rifle season…so early November.

Me too.

sticker wrote:

I have been leaving the possums alone around my house and they are becoming more and more populated. I haven’t had a tick at home all year and I am in the woods/fields every day. They say a possum can eat up to 400,000 ticks a year per possum.

I’ve read 4,000 to 5,000 per year. Either way, it seems they are a good combatant to ticks.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sticker wrote:</div>
I have been leaving the possums alone around my house and they are becoming more and more populated. I haven’t had a tick at home all year and I am in the woods/fields every day. They say a possum can eat up to 400,000 ticks a year per possum.

I’ve read 4,000 to 5,000 per year. Either way, it seems they are a good combatant to ticks.

He was talking about a really fat one though

I got a good bump on my elbow where one latched on last Thur. Dang it.

Deer ticks are active until snow….and then again until the next snow if the first snow melts. I hate em…

My son shot a small buck on rifle opener last year, ive never seen more deer ticks in my life. honestly, there was 100 plus crawling off him as we pulled the hide off.

Pete Bauer wrote:

Maybe it’s just around my house but regularly seeing 2-3 on the dog every day after she comes out of the tall grass. Out in full force around my house right now.
What’s odd is I didn’t find one tick from probably June until mid September on the dog. Bizzare.

When they start to disappear in June is when the egg layers are dying after laying their eggs. Then after the first frost in late September the eggs hatch and you have the nymphal stage that is working over the warm flesh until the snow or frost is 4″ thick, according to my local vet.

Timmy wrote:

Deer ticks are active until snow….and then again until the next snow if the first snow melts. I hate em…

Timmy, I can sit in the hordes of mosquitoes up here in the Northwoods at dusk until they go away with the proper repellent and not be bothered by the buzzing. I believe that I have chronic Lyme’s and because of that fact, if I could, I would burn every single one of them monkeybutts in spite!!! They are the only single bug that I feel this way about…

Mark

Pailofperch wrote:

My son shot a small buck on rifle opener last year, ive never seen more deer ticks in my life. honestly, there was 100 plus crawling off him as we pulled the hide off.

Perch:

The 1st year Favre came back to GB as a Viking, my wife and I picked 76 ticks off my two Labs after an 1.5 hour walk in the woods. Thankfully, I had taped the game as we missed the almost the whole 1st half!!!

I haven’t seen ticks the whole year up here, but based on what I have learned about this particular tick is that I love snow on the ground!!!

Mark

Found two deer ticks crawling on me Sun, Oct 22. Thankfully, not attached. Hoping is snows at the end of the week.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>sticker wrote:</div>
I have been leaving the possums alone around my house and they are becoming more and more populated. I haven’t had a tick at home all year and I am in the woods/fields every day. They say a possum can eat up to 400,000 ticks a year per possum.

I’ve read 4,000 to 5,000 per year. Either way, it seems they are a good combatant to ticks.

I think BK posted something about it this spring and that is where I got the info, but I also found this on the WWW

Opossums have one very favorable trait: they eat ticks, up to 4,000 in a week, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

Here is another one

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