LOL!! You never cease to amaze me Stacey!
Who loves me
most of all?
Bad^ss bugs and biting vines!
So far, no mouse has claimed the fluffy-stuff laced with Pyrethrin. It's still in the cardboard tube, at ground level, next to the wood pile where the mice live. COME AND GET IT ladies, line your nests with it, kill the ticks!
.....Unless the possums want their 5,000 ticks per year per possum.
.....Can I really believe this Pyrethrin is safe for mammals but lethal only to ticks?
That's why I never did it. I still have the huge box of toilet paper rolls I saved for months. How can any toxin be good? But a lyme specialist friend of mine says they work.
That said, I think I am covered with tick bites. I go out with my pants tucked into my boots, the boots sprayed with toxins, but this one day I wore a loose fitting T shirt, and I must have stepped into a nest of nymphs. I have a good dozen or more bites. erg.
Do ticks bite without detaching?
I have spider bites, or something-bites, after my Pyrethrin-soaked meadow/timber walks (my clothing, boots sprayed with the smelly chemical). I don't use Deet. I detest that vanilla-scented gnat spray.
Tick nymphs - they bite but don't attach?
So much I still don't know, and so much I will never know...
idk, but they are exactly like bites I had a few years ago, with a characteristic (for me) itch, and one of those got the bullseye. None of these did. They have faded in under a week, so I don't think any of them had Lyme. Untreated infected tick bite rashes last for months on my body.