While taking a short hike at our local state park, we encountered this young deer coming up the trail towards us.After it patiently let me take a few photos, it bounded off to its right to join half a dozen of it's brethren.
A few short moments later we determined that the deer was not fleeing from us, but rather the untold scores of minuscule seed ticks that festooned our ankles. It appeared that we were wearing brown socks. Socks that were being slowly pulled up our legs that would soon transform into a nice beige pair of pantyhose that rides up our arse.
The Girl had a run-in with these a few weeks before, so I knew the drill: copious amounts of DEET over the affected areas followed by careful scraping with a pocket knife.
Spray-Scrape-Repeat. Showers, VSE, and baboon-like grooming of each other when we got back home.
The Boy in his jogger remained immune to the parasites advances.
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Nice post- a great description of a "tick bomb". I hear packing tape works, too.
ReplyDeleteA fine blog you have here- keep it up!
Have you tried permythrin (spelling?) It is supposed to be very good at keeping ticks off of clothing
ReplyDeleteFantastic blog. I hope you make this a regular thing.
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