Thread: Ticks

Have the ticks been a problem in Al. this season? It seems like July up in North Carolina as far as ticks are concerned. To me February and Ticks don't mix, where is winter?

I've pulled 3 off of my outside cat and 1 off my dog already. But , does a hard freeze really kill them? I can vouch for that. I had a deer I was gonna mount in my freezer for 4 months and when I took it to my taxidermist he found ticks that were attached to its head that came back to life after it thawed. That's pretty disheartening.

Cold weather dosent kill bugs most of the time.been finding tics all year long here in Tn as long as the temps get above 50

People are already finding ticks here in Oklahoma. Haven't found any myself. Hoping that's not just because I didn't see them.

Being a Rocky Mountain Fever survivor I hate a tick with a passion

They are thick already in Indiana. By the time our Turkey Season opens at the end of April you won't be able to walk through the woods let alone sit down and work an Ole tom.

Its funny sometimes how much things vary by region. Where I grew up in lower Michigan I seldom found a tick. Probably fewer than half a dozen in almost 40 years of hunting, fishing, and other various outdoor activities. In Michigan's upper peninsula I've found twice that number after a single outing (in a bad year). Now that I'm here in Oklahoma I find them fairly regularly, though none yet this year.

I have heard its because of the deer population has allowed them to spread,yotes have spread into our area about the time the deer numbers started going up also so I reckon its just the way life works,never remember seeing any ticks in Mi when I lived there until the early 70's

No ticks found yet, but the mosquitoes were out over the warm weekend in the north....never in mid February can I remember

Nor flocks of robins heading north this early. Near the coast I'd see them in January but not in Illinois. My daffodils and hyacinths will bloom before this weekend and before my crocuses.