Warning : Ticks-s-s-s

[Valley Station]

Just a little reminder, those mean little bausterds,ticks are out.[}:)]
Time to get Permathone out and spray the clothes before you hit the woods. Lymes disease is for real.[V][B)]

[Blevins Gap Outdoors]

VS,

That is a good warning for everyone. I can tell you nobody wants to get Lymes, it's no fun. I got it a couple years back. Don't let anyone tell you it's not in KY.

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[RDL270]

You know everything you read is about removing the large ticks, but what about when one of those little *&^%$#$%% seed ticks get in you? What do you all do for them? I've done everything I can think of, but no matter what, its about two weeks to get rid of it.

[Valley Station]

My hide is getting a "little thin" with age.Once they bite, inject chemical to keep bite flowing, takes a couple weeks to heal.[V][B)]

[Kyshorthair]

Found two ticks Wednesday (April, 7th) on my dog. They are out for sure.

[KyHorse]

I've been pulling them off me for 3 weeks now.

[P. Beyer]

I've treated all my clothes a few weeks ago with permethone, and will do so again before the opener.

Watch out for snakes too; I killed a few yesterday.

"It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent"

Fred Bear

[GSP]

What type of ticks y'all seeing? I notice many of you are from western KY. Last year I turkey hunted Muhlenberg County and had small ticks with litle white dots on them all over me. I think they are called "Lone Stars"?????? I've never seen one of those before in my life! Scare H$ll outta me, thought I was gonna Rocky Mt Blue Tongue Spotted Lyme Cootties!!!! Only tick I have ever seen before is the common old brown dog tick. Has anyone east ever seen a small black tick with a small white dot on its back?

[WarChief]

GSP here's a site for you on tick's, http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/ticks/ with some pic's for indentification. The ticks you described would be the lonestar tick. There is a pic on that site with both side by side.

[GSP]

Yep, that's the critter! I found this site today (have to work today so might as well do something[:D]) that sezs Lonestar ticks are common to Weastern and South Central KY. http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef618.htm

I just know that I had never seen one before last year when I was in Muhlenberg County and they were everywhere. Glad they ain't in East KY like they are down there.[:0]