"Was collecting flowers for my wife today and found 40 ticks crawling up my pants/shirt when I was done"
HELL NOComing from someone who used to hunt deer, he may wanna check his sack n I ain't talking bout the gunny
and belly button
And armpit
Iv had dozens of ticks attach themselves to me and its always the armpit for some reason
I think it's because skin is thinner there, and the temperature of the body is warmer, which is alluring for them. Same with ball sack/ areas around genitals
So it makes sense that it’s the pheromones coming from there that attract the little fuckers
I knew someone who got one right near there booty hole
And have his significant other check his ass. I had one on my ass cheek after hunting so i know from experience, thank god i have a wife that checks me when i shower.
The one Tick to ever get me was in my armpit. I didn't know about it until getting home after a camping trip and feeling it when scratching my bare arm in the middle of changing my clothes. Thought it was a scab or wart until I felt the legs and thought "That doesn't feel like hair." We got the Tick out, after which my arm started to ache, but I had a baseball game right after that. My team let me play Catcher that day so I'd only need one arm.
Damn, I would be panicking. Back where I am from we have ticks that carry The Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Typically, when the tick is found and already sucked in, we were supposed to leave it as it is, go to the nearest hospital, let doctors take care of it and send it to the lab. So far I've been lucky and never got to deal with these fuckers.
And ear
and the crook of your ear 👂🏻
(This only place I’ve had a tick attach. Thought I’d mention it lol)
oh deer god
I believe we're all referring to the taint here.
Are they Texan ?
Always check under the sack. They LOVE under the sack
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Taint no doubt about it!
I was clearing out some weeds on the hillside then came inside and took a shower. I felt a scab and pain in the middle of my back so I assumed I had scraped myself on one of the redwood trees.
Husband came home from work and I asked if he could check my cut before bed. 10 pm and he tells me it's not a cut.
I had a live tick burrowing under my bra strap.
Same thing but it was the back of my thigh. I was feeling it for days thinking it was a scab and was waiting for it to heal.
I had one on the back of my leg right where the butt meets the leg when I was a kid. I thought it was just a scab too LOL
I woke up one day with one attached to my eyelid. No idea where it came from.
True. Fucking. That.
For future reference, pick up some sulphur powder from a feed store or garden store. Mix equal parts sulphur powder and baby powder into a sock. Bop the filled sock all over your feet, ankles, legs under pants, on pant legs, etc. It repels ticks like a magic trick.
Thank u for this!
Won't that stink? You mean before going out or just if got stung ?
It smells like rotten eggs, but it’s effective as hell. Use before going out. Once a tick has its head imbedded in your skin (they don’t sting, they bite and burrow) sulphur will not help. You have to get the head out of your skin by means of firmly pulling them out with tweezers or a hemostat. But, take extra care when removing because you can damage the tick’s body and the head will remain, which then requires opening the lesion further to remove the remainder. Not fun.
Thank you. I will try this on my next outdoor trip.
Or just get some chickens!
I’m just gonna let my cadre of opossums loose.
Could also just eat a sack of bean and cheese tacos. Same effect…Fart cloud.
But then you’d scare away all the animals on your thirteen smile hike.
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*magic tick
Instantly got the magic stick song stuck in my head.
Good to know
Could you not just buy "tick repellent"?
In my personal experience, even the heaviest of broad spectrum deet based repellents aren’t as effective as my aforementioned method, specifically concerning ticks.
Does the smell linger?
While it’s on, yes. Washes away very easily and entirely from the body and clothing.
Deet doesn't work for me either. Although Prymerthin works tremendously in my experience.
Is that safe for humans?
Safer than having a myriad of blood sucking ticks all over! Seriously though, here’s the link to the msds for sulphur: https://www.teck.com/media/Sulphur_SDS.pdf
Oh my God! I hate them!🤮🤢
I hate these so much! They totally killed the fun in running around in the grass in spring. And summer. And autumn.
40 things that have no reason for existence
Lyme disease
Lyme will fuck you up so bad.
These are wood ticks not deer ticks. Wood ticks don’t carry Lyme disease. But the 40 he didn’t find might be deer ticks because they are smaller. They burn when they bite though so that makes them findable.
I found one on my dog and it was literally the size of a pencil tip! (Ok maybe a sesame seed) Thankfully he's white so I investigated but damn those are sneaky motherfuckers
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Fuck these assholes.
Sounds painful
Good. Now, pour them on your enemy.
better idea: put them in a glitter bomb & mail to your enemy
Add some sugar free gummy dicks in there too (IYKYK)
i like the way you think
Gasoline 🔥
Or Vaseline (depending on what youre into if youre into ticks on dicks)...
Hello, people. Did you like the meadow you were collecting flowers in? My grandmother had a meadow. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in a minute, but still, it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with ticks. They'd come on a dog and gorged themselves on hedgehogs. So how do you get ticks off a meadow? Hmmm? My grandmother showed me. We dragged bowls through the grass, so that the ticks would fall into it. After a few rounds with that bowls, we had trapped many ticks, but what do you do then? Burn it? No. You leave it and the ticks begin to get hungry. And one by one... they start sucking each other's blood until there are only two left. The two survivors. You take them and release them into the grass, but now they don't eat hedgehog anymore. Now, they only suck ticks. You have changed their nature.
I dont think that works to 100%, i will dig into that topic when im at Home and try to find Something scientifcly
It will not work at all. I took Javier Bardem's lines from a bond movie and fitted them to this tick infestation, because it reminded me of it and I wanted to make a joke.
Hmm... are you sure? I'm starting to doubt your credentials, and your only source is a fictional movie.
I'm pretty sure this will work.
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom” - Rene Descartes.
I would love to read a report of you testing the above hypothesis. ;-)
Yup dindt find anything but hey Looks Like from the other comments He Like to spread misinformations. The "best" Thing i would find ist that they can live Up to 10 years with only 1 meal
Read again, my friend.
Sigh
xD oops i should read the usernames
Misinformation is funny!
TBH anyone who would believe that and try it deserves to be bamboozled.
Yeah. It's pretty obvious you would be left with the two strongest ticks, and they would go on to breed more super ticks when you release them in the meadow.
I disagree, because:
A. The tick scenario is far from implausible because much more bizarre phenomena --which are actually true--are common in nature, like zombie funguses, groupers changing gender, resurrected 10,000 year old tardigrades, bombadier beetles, snakes with spider lures, shapeshifting octopuses and hypnotic cuttlefish, electric eels, bioluminescence..
B. Lies are destructive
It is not a lie, it is a joke, something I openly stated very clear when the first reply showed that there might be some people who did not get it without help. I even provided everyone with the source and a link to it.
still, people like you who for some reason either don't get it or like to be offended can't be helped, apparently. so enjoy.
Fair enough.
This is giving Dwight from the office vibes
The meadows in Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier.
That sounds like the beginning of a dystopian novel!
Same thing works w ppl. Just gotta find a big enough bowl
(This method not effective for zombies)
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Welcome to the Thunderbowl.
You need to call Rent-a-Possum.
Except that opossums are not really that great at hunting ticks, despite what PETA claims. They’re nearly blind and nocturnal, unlike sharp eyed ground nesting birds like turkeys and guineas (which are excellent at catching them). 😉
I feed them to spiders when I catch them. It is fitting.
Someone remind me again, how do these help the ecosystem?
Fucks up humans with Lyme's (not helpful for us but whatever fucks us is good for the ecosystem), i guess they're also birdfeed.
Happened to me - took a stroll through some ankle high grass, came back with at least 40. They had crawled all the way up to head and in EVERY SINGLE CREVICE
Oh, how nice!
Burn them.
🎶The ticks go marching one by one hurrah, hurrah🎶
Better check your hair!
Burn them with fire
Tuck your pants into your socks and your (long sleeved!) shirt into your pants! But the flower picking was a really sweet thing to do, sorry those ticks bugged ya!
Went travelling around Australia a few years back to meet up with family. Had one of these feckers feeding off my under berries 🍒 one night. Found it clinging on in the shower the next morning. Not a happy day I can tell thee 🥺🪳
Ticky situation
Pour some bleach in there, those fuckers need to suffer
Alpha gal incoming
I've always wanted a vivarium.
OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD
I would have to give myself a flea/tick dip like they do for dogs.
I will never love anything or anyone enough to expose myself to that for some flowers. lol
When I was married and on the farm, this was an every day occurrence in the spring. We would duct tape the bottom of our jeans and tuck them in our boots. Wore long sleeve shirts with a high neck. We would be covered with hundreds of them crawling on our clothes after being in the field. No matter how well we dressed we still ended up with them stuck to our skin. I am so glad I live in the city now.
Time for a tick bouquet!
Wherever that is is somewhere I don't want to live.
Get chickens.
Interesting how both bed bugs and ticks look rather small and flat.. both blood suckers. Also fleas right? Ugh gross
At this point just torch the whole garden
Time for a tick bouquet!
And you know damn well #41 and #42 are still roaming around you somewhere.
Burn them with 🔥
God forsaken little bastards
Permethrin will be your best friend.
Nothing a match and some white gas won't solve
Where do you live that this happens 😬😬😬
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Yup. This is my yard
Good Lord 😳
Where do you live?
You clearly hit the mother load! Geez!!
Where's the other 20?
I like how the "mildly infuriating" sub posts a lot of stuff that would be extremely infuriating
Hungry ones by the look of it
This made me shiver. Fucking hate ticks.
Put em in gasoline
Go ahead, take a swig
Ah that’s a major fuck no! Hate those nasty fuckers.
Quick, somebody get an opossum!
Saw this post before....on TICKtok lmao
Glad we don't have ticks in NZ
Where do y'all live to get this many? Jesus... 😭
Submerge the fuckers in hydrochloric acid.
God deamn it.
And I thought it was bad where my mom lives…
A tick once bit me and it died an hour later. Should i be worried?
A tick once bit me
And it died an hour later.
Should i be worried?
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🤮 this is why I avoid certain areas outside, I can barely handle mosquitoes, much less tons of ticks!!!
That’s what you get for doing something awful like picking flowers for your wife. Gross.
You need to be more worried about the 40 you haven't found yet...