Do You Think All These Snowstorms Will Help Kill Off The Deer Ticks??

[Fred Flintstone]

    Hopefully  all this snow and lingering Thick ice will kill off the Deer Ticks. They just ruin a good time on the Spring Woods.

  What do Y'All think?

[Buck154]

Nope

[DonW]

I sure hope it kills off some of them. This will be my first year spring turkey hunting, and ticks are one thing that will keep me at home. I hate ticks!

[Bucksnbows]

Absolutely not.  The ticks are warm and well underneath all this snow as they have been for hundreds of thousands of years including when most of NJ was completely covered by the Wisconsin Glacier.  Wish I could tell you something different.   

[electric10162]

Not a chance!

[Jim_]

I sure wish that was the case. These things are a scourge. I'm starting to have grandchildren ... I couldn't live with myself if one got Lyme Disease while with me.

FWIW ... there is now a pro-science administration in Washington. Remind Menendez, Booker, and your US Rep that more money is needed for tick/vector research at CDC, NIH, and the universities.

[Roon]

They're going to hunker down a little bit but with snow on the ground and some bald patches showing first warm day you're going to get bit

[trapoholic]

I hope so! I get ticks just cutting my lawn!

[Fred Flintstone]

  Fro. The replies- looks like those Satanic  Deer Ticks will be around

   I have had Lyme Disease... Got bit in June doing yardwork . No Bullseye- but discovered the Tick too late on my lower back.

  That was a good 5 years ago.

   I had Double Vision, Walked like a Drunk, and the most horrible  headache  in the very rear  of my Brain. 

  3 Days in the Hospital  and Antibiotics. 

   Thought, I  was gonna Die that night before going to the hospital.  Guess, I  am prepared  for the Virus shot side effects.

   Permitherin  on all your Camo people. And a good shower + a good check after you mow the lawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Greybeard]

30 minutes ago, electric10162 said:

Not a chance!

Beat me to it.  Heat and direct sun will

[Haskell_Hunter]

49 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

Absolutely not.  The ticks are warm and well underneath all this snow as they have been for hundreds of thousands of years including when most of NJ was completely covered by the Wisconsin Glacier.  Wish I could tell you something different.   

Buzzkill.

[Jim_]

6 minutes ago, Fred Flintstone said:

   I have had Lyme Disease... Got bit in June doing yardwork . No Bullseye- but discovered the Tick too late on my lower back.

   I had Double Vision, Walked like a Drunk, and the most horrible  headache  in the very rear  of my Brain. 

  3 Days in the Hospital  and Antibiotics. 

   Thought, I  was gonna Die that night before going to the hospital.

I also had no bullseye, but never saw the tick. I just assumed it was from fishing at Assunpink. 

This was about 18 years ago. Misdiagnosed for many weeks. Facial paralysis .. it was really bad. Also ended up the hospital.

Ticks are evil.

[_X7]

We should all treat  all of our clothes with Permathrin. Its a good habit to get into after seeing the effects of Lyme and other tick borne diseases.

https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-insect-repellent-treatment/

 

[bushden]

RIGHT FROM : https://www.fwpest.com/blog/are-ticks-still-active-in-the-winter

Many of us think that ticks die off in the winter after the first hard frost. Unfortunately, they do not. The adult black-legged (deer) ticks that spread Lyme disease begin their prime feeding activity just about the time of the first freeze. The reason being is that their main host animals are deer and deer are actively moving around in the fall. If deer aren't around, blacklegged ticks will attach to people or pets anytime the weather starts getting warmer.

The American dog tick and Lone Star ticks are inactive in fall and winter. The Blacklegged ticks activity decreases only when temperatures start dropping below 35 degrees F. or the ground is covered in snow. They quickly recover when temperatures start warming up. To actually kill ticks, the freezing temperatures must be a sustained number of days below 10 degrees F. This is happening less often as our winters are getting warmer than they use to be. Any ticks that have attached to a deer will be kept warm by the animal's body heat and will survive a cold snap.

What this translates to is that you can't let your guard down when it comes to ticks and the possibility of tick-transmitted diseases. In the Northeast, the risk of Lyme disease is lowest from late December to sometime in late March. It is not so much as the weather as it is in the life cycle of the Blacklegged tick. The nymphal stage of the tick is responsible for most of the transmitted cases of Lyme disease, but by late fall the nymphs have molted into adult ticks to spend the winter.

Edited February 19, 2021 by bushden

[Buckeyes11]

Not at all. The ticks r actually even ore insulated under all this snow. I spray my turkey gear up with permitherin and never have a problem