Ticks?

[sojourner65]

How bad is the infestation in CO? We will be back packing for extended periods next bow season.

 

[OldMan]

Here\'s some info for you.

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[timberland]

reading that makes me want to sleep with cotton balls in my ears. to heck with the alarm clock

 

[Buglemaster]

I can\'t remember ever finding a tick where we hunt in Colo. that late in the fall. Mabe just the geography or being too late in the fall. Have saw them in the summer months quite frequently tho. We will be picking ticks regularly when turkey season opens in 2 weeks...

 

[Zpd307]

no ticks here in the last two years in colorado in september. yes, they are bad in in the spring and early summer here in mn.....

 

[sojourner65]

Yeah, we have a lot here in the east, with NJ the \"tick capital of the world\". Couple of years ago I was building a backyard shed. I live in a semi wooded area with deer around. I was picking 1-2 ticks off of me everyday. Then the following year, nada ticks. The theory I read was that the rodent population had collapsed that winter, leaving very little for the nymphs to feed on. I use Permethrin on my hunting and hiking clothes also.

 

[cnelk]

Oh yeah. Those river bottoms we turkey hunted have tons of ticks.
Always fun to count them climbing the walls of the blind, most we got one day was 42.
Then it rained and they were gone

 

[wvarcher]

Use Sawyers tick spray...spray your hunting clothes then let air dry...this spray works!

 

[Bullnuts]

I\'ve seen a grand total of 1 tick during elk season in over 25 years. We see a lot of them in the spring, like was mentioned, and I have no idea where they go, but they are pretty much cleared out by the end of summer.

 

[Swede]

Since this is a thread about ticks in Colorado, I did not post on it right away. My experience in Oregon and Washington is the same as what has been discussed above. In the spring and early summer, in the lower country you can pick up ticks. In hunting season it is extremely rare to pick one up anywhere. Even when I worked for the Forest Service, I don\'t remember getting one in the late summer or fall. It is interesting that I have found hundreds of ticks on an elk\'s hide while skinning, but I never noticed any dug in, or had one try to do a taste test on me.