Pets? I'm worried about myself walking outside and getting a record number of ticks, fleas and mosquito bites.

/Mostly the mosquito bites.
//Malaria sounds like it's worse than lyme disease
///I think.
////I didn't actually look into it.

Crusader: The mosquitoes are already out en masse in Texas. Had several swarms attack us last night during our run.

Yup. I lit two mosquito repellant candles while I was on the porch for 10 minutes last night, walked in covered in bites.

I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

wiredroach: I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

I've been seeing them since mid-March here in Georgia. And like you I found one in my head yesterday. Sigh

God, I hate ticks. They give me the heebie-jeebies

Gig103: Anyone know if Frontline works on humans?

Gives me a headache.

/flea free for 17 days and counting...

Hard frosts in Michigan have killed the mosquitoes. And 95% of the grape crop.

I just stay away from Subbys Mom.

wiredroach: I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

Went fishing on Sunday, pulled three off of me Sunday night. Found another last night right before going to bed. I never get freaked out when I'm expecting them and pull them off; it's the unexpected tick crawling up my ballsack that freaks me out.

Buy stock in whoever makes Frontline and all the mosquito repellents, I guess?

Phoenix FTW! Unless it starts raining metric farktons (not gonna happen) there's worry about bugs here.

Of course, if it does start raining, we have to worry about things like Walapai Tigers

^^^
NO worry about bugs

NO worry

Hassan Ben Sobr: Hard frosts in Michigan have killed the mosquitoes. And 95% of the grape crop.

Too bad for the grapes. Usually whacks the yellow jackets there too though.

KrispyKritter: my older sister is a nurse. she began to feel odd, went to the doctor, they found nothing. this went on and on. doctor after doctor found nothing. one sent her to a psychiatrist. that pissed her off, she knew it wasn't 'all in her head'.

she persisted. the 21st doctor she visited was fresh out of med school and recognized the symptoms. they examined her head to toe, sure enough it was a tic. she has permanent damage because it was in her system so long.

i've heard much worse stories than this. please be careful fellow farkers.

That's why every time I go to the Doctor's I take off all my clothes at the entrance and say "Full body scan please!"

Dammit! I love to roll around on the ground and forage the woods for hours.

Hassan Ben Sobr: Hard frosts in Michigan have killed the mosquitoes. And 95% of the grape crop.

nobody wants to drink wine from michigan, so its ok

We don't need a hard winter in Texas to kill mosquitos.

We have a summer hot and dry enough to do the trick.

Mild? My town (in AZ) was getting snow up til two weeks ago. Just over a month ago we got just shy of 20 inches of snowfall in one day.

wildcardjack: We don't need a hard winter in Texas to kill mosquitoes.

We have a summer hot and dry enough to do the trick.

Is that why I've never seen mosquitoes here? The heat kills them?

Our poor little dog has already found the fleas that seem to have proliferated in our yard. She found them in MARCH. IN CANADA.

The downside of having hair that drags on the ground when one urinates.

/Any good ideas for flea control in the yard?

I would like to make a request of all of you, stop using bug spray. Bugs find me pretty unappealing until everyone else coats themselves in Off, then I get chewed up and have to put on some myself.

Shazam999: KrispyKritter: my older sister is a nurse. she began to feel odd, went to the doctor, they found nothing. this went on and on. doctor after doctor found nothing. one sent her to a psychiatrist. that pissed her off, she knew it wasn't 'all in her head'.

she persisted. the 21st doctor she visited was fresh out of med school and recognized the symptoms. they examined her head to toe, sure enough it was a tic. she has permanent damage because it was in her system so long.

i've heard much worse stories than this. please be careful fellow farkers.

That's why every time I go to the Doctor's I take off all my clothes at the entrance and say "Full body scan please!"

Only at the doctor's? I do this everywhere I go. Why yes I have been banned from most of the establishments within 20 miles of my home, how did you guess?

Gig103: Anyone know if Frontline works on humans?

Considering how large a dosage you would need, you probably do not want to be taking in that much Fipronil (active ingredient, known carcinogen).

I'm hopeful the 6 inches of snow we had this week will help keep the buggies to a minimum this summer. There seemed to be far fewer of them after the melt than there were last week.

Look on the bright side: the spider population ought to be absolutely huge.

Crusader: The mosquitoes are already out en masse in Texas. Had several swarms attack us last night during our run.

To be fair, that's less "RECORD NUMBERS OH NO RUN FOR THE HILLS" and more "welcome to Texas". Especially Eastern and Northeastern Texas, there have been years I just had to live with the fact that I couldn't breathe outside without inhaling a mosquito.

I've developed an affection for the big mosquito-eaters on par with what I imagine religious reverence to be, every time one wanders indoors I gently shoo it back out and give it an encouraging speech about how many larvae it can devour.

//Though there were plenty of hard freezes this winter, not sure wtf subby is talking about.
//Vaccinated for Lyme disease and most Mosquito-borne pathogens short of Malaria, and I drink loads of gin+tonic. Bring it, buggies.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: the unexpected tick crawling up my ballsack that freaks me out.

I'll bet every man that reads that shudders

/I sure did

Assuming you're not from a rural area in the US. Finding a tight spot where it's hard to bite them out is a behavior the little bastards have spent millions of years developing, since humans don't have tails anymore that pretty much just leaves your crotch unless you're fat enough to have skin folds elsewhere.

If you grew up within half a mile of a cow or horse, basically, you've probably had to extract a tick from that area. The creep factor gives way to a general ire after a while.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: CrackpipeCardozo: wiredroach: I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

Went fishing on Sunday, pulled three off of me Sunday night. Found another last night right before going to bed. I never get freaked out when I'm expecting them and pull them off; it's the unexpected tick crawling up my ballsack that freaks me out.

I'll bet every man that reads that shudders

/I sure did

What kills me is when I feel them crawling up my ballsack when I am driving 75 mph down the freeway during rush hour.

Yes officer you saw me weave erratically through traffic with my hand down my pants because of a tick. Honest.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: CrackpipeCardozo: wiredroach: I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

Went fishing on Sunday, pulled three off of me Sunday night. Found another last night right before going to bed. I never get freaked out when I'm expecting them and pull them off; it's the unexpected tick crawling up my ballsack that freaks me out.

I'll bet every man that reads that shudders

/I sure did

I found one lodged in under the head of my dick last year. He took a damn plug of flesh with him with his little farking rebar pincers ...

borg: Just spray some DDT around it's harmless to humans but kills bugs dead.

I would love to. Where can I buy some for residential use?

/seriously

Evil Canadian: Our poor little dog has already found the fleas that seem to have proliferated in our yard. She found them in MARCH. IN CANADA.

The downside of having hair that drags on the ground when one urinates.

/Any good ideas for flea control in the yard?

Spectracide® (Triazicide) seemed to work pretty well, if you don't mind killing nearly everything in the yard (bugs/worms/fish if near a lake). You'll want to keep the pets/small children off the lawn for a day or two after using it. Works good on things living underground too. The year I stopped spraying the lawn, I had one hell of a japanese beetle issue, and moles moved back into the yard (feeding on the worms/grubs I had not killed off I expect).

I really need to get back to spraying this year.

Mentalpatient87: MaudlinMutantMollusk: CrackpipeCardozo: wiredroach: I went for a hike on the Montana chunk of the Continental Divide on Sunday and picked up a few ticks at the top at 7323'. Ticks in late April at that elevation is a new one for me. Bonus: found another one in my hair this morning...he must have been lurking on the couch and hopped back on last night. Creeped me out to find him while sipping my morning coffee, to say the least.

/CSB

Went fishing on Sunday, pulled three off of me Sunday night. Found another last night right before going to bed. I never get freaked out when I'm expecting them and pull them off; it's the unexpected tick crawling up my ballsack that freaks me out.

I'll bet every man that reads that shudders

/I sure did

I found one lodged in under the head of my dick last year. He took a damn plug of flesh with him with his little farking rebar pincers ...

Dammit. I'm gonna need a crow-bar to uncross my legs now.

My little princess has the fleas bad. That Hartz shiat wont cure it. Had to mail order some front line.

Everyone up in my neck of the woods (New England) has been saying this all winter. And it's coming true. We've killed at least two dozen ticks in our house so far this spring. Usually we find one or two. Every night we have to turn down the sheets all the way (because, yup, we found one in our bed one morning). The kids get the full strip-search every time they come inside. Sucks.