Hopefully you had lunch at the Lochsa Lodge. I sure don't miss driving Highway 12 but I do miss the country.

They are out now here in MN. Been in the woods/grass and have found /felt quite a few.

RM, that looks like a deer tick. Get checked out.

Takes a while for Lyme to incubate and show a positive. Might not hurt to retest. Sounds like you are behind on getting well. I have had the bad sick from them buggers. Nothing to take lightly.

Bad everyplace I’ve been this year not having chickens we really notice them more now. Started feeding the neighbors birds to keep then on tick duty. MO was bad turkey season many sizes from freckles to wood tick sizes.

Pulled some truck part by the NE border a few weeks ago they were thick. I pulled 6 off my pants and had another on the back of my neck at the same time lost count they just kept coming.

Here, ticks carry ehrlichiosis, Lyme's, borreliosis (and pyroplasmosis, which affects dogs), but those usually only get transmitted if the tick has latched for several hours, because the pathogen lives in its intestine. These diseases are nasty but more or less treatable. Our ticks also carry several viral diseases, including Kemerovo fever and tick-borne encephalitis. The virus is found in all parts of the tick's body including the saliva so it is transmitted instantly. I am surprised tick-borne encephalitis has not made it across the ocean yet, because veterinary/phytosanitary control has been far from perfect. It's a deadly disease that causes brain inflammation and lasting neurological symptoms, including persistent headaches, loss of cognitive functions, weakness in limbs, paralysis, coma and death. I lost my best friend to this disease and it was a long scary death. There are vaccines but some people don't produce antibodies, and there is emergency serum, but it is not always effective and has adverse effects.The good side is, people here are deathly scared of ticks and the woods in our region are pleasantly empty throughout the first half of the warm season.

Went into a place a few days ago to do trouble beaver trapping and when I got to my truck I started to pick ticks ended up with 22, second day only 12.

I've been wading through the brush Trout fishing but haven't had one on me yet. This past fall while hunting, I had dozens on me.

Could it be the hip boots I'm wearing now that's keeping them off me?

This is THE treatment for ticks. I use Sawyers on all my clothing and Avon Bug Guard plus IR3535 on my hands,head,and neck-works great for Spring Gobbler setups and shed hunting.

A more cost effective approach than sawyers is

https://www.chewy.com/martins-permethrin-10-multi-purpose/dp/270031?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=19652770307&utm_content=Martin%27s&utm_term=&gbraid=0AAAAADmQ2V3211Wn9fNCadmaizcvplNTH&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyLGjBhDKARIsAFRNgW92dq2Tj17JLNPLpgu5BQODMvvjObXY-UUx5ZFYCy1iC9NMuGkZt1EaAt70EALw_wcB

It’s a 10% concentrate of permethrin so it needs to be diluted.
The cdc recommends a .5% concentration but I use almost a 1% solution of permethrin
to treat all my clothes/layers, socks, boots that I wear for outdoors. Use distilled water for dilution. So a 32oz concentrate bottle makes 320ounces of spray!
I Spray only the outside of clothes and let air dry. Application lasts 6 weeks or 6 washes. I don’t think it’s safe for cats but that’s what I’ve been doing.

Usually Repel sportsman 40% deet for us

yall need more fireants. each illegal entering the country should be forced to carry 50 pounds of ants up to the northern states. With that said, I know dang well Swamp Wolf has fireants in Ga. I very rarely get them on me down here since this massive explosion of fireants. I dont care what freaking product they peddle as a fireant mound and queen killing concoction, they are at best minimally effective.

I agree. This is one of the worse infestation of ticks I've seen in some time. I spray my shoes and pants with permethrin. In the past whenever I did, ticks avoided me. Not this year, I still get a few.

I used to get them all the time pick a couple out a night
started spraying everything with permethrin several years ago , it is cheap when you buy the quart bottle and use a sprayer.
ounce per gallon with the 13.3% concentrate
cost is a little less than a dollar an ounce for the concentrate making a gallon of solution to soak or spray your cloths with cost you about a dollar.

I hang the cloths on a line and spray 2 gallons does me most years

Trapstickman hates it when he gets one in the middle of his back and he can't reach it.

Ouch thanks for the reminders
so in the Ixodes tick picture at 1 o'clock I can see a old tick bite from a prior year.( not the red spot)
Are you having any effect with new bites and reactions. I know that when an attached tick moves his legs, my body picks up nerve sensations in other parts of my body, and i know I have to do a complete search.
One new expanding tick in its range is the Lone Star tick, and just walking across your skin can transmit. It is one tick that can actively hunt warm blooded prey vs the others that just wait and latch on passing prey. Carbon dioxide traps for mosquitoes can be covered with them in the morning after a night set.

Didnt think that worked for anything anymore. Maybe a lil skeeter relief. Permithrin spray every morning on jeans