Ticks

[DOUBLELUNG]

I was out along Wells reservoir yesterday and the ticks were abundant. 

[rsrubalcaba]

Add me to the list of tick encounters.  Went for a hike today, barely any brush busting  and had one crawling up my left pant leg hamstring area.  Wife spotted it.  Deer tick, nasty little thing.

[nitroelk]

went out in the Naches River area this weekend and must have walked through a nest area picked up 4 in just a couple minutes on my pants then found one on my leg later

[Special T]

So they don't actually eat the ticks u less they try to attach to an opossum?

I have a buddy with it down in Arkansas. Took him over a year to get over it. It is the only reason why I no longer kill every opossum I see. (They are quite delicious BTW)  they are immune to that disease and Hoover up ticks like a Kirby vacume cleaner.

This is based on a misleading "study" where a couple opossums were put in a glass cage with 100 ticks.  The number of ticks removed by grooming was then multiplied and extrapolated out to wildly exaggerate their effectiveness.  Government waste, useless grants and fake science all rolled into one.

Opossums are known to spread Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) disease to horses.  Infection causes loss of muscle function and weakness.

They do not get a free pass around here.

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[huntingfool7]

The study took several species of animals and locked them up with a quantity of ticks.  Opossums were more effective at grooming the pests off themselves than the other test subjects. 

[huntingfool7]

Here's last weeks collection.  There's 13 of them in those vials.  We have a few ticks around on the wet side.

[zwickeyman]

Wife had to take one off my back last night. Picked it up in the Colockum Turkey hunting on Saturday. Only one I've found so far

[westside Elkhunter]

Was by Rimrock lake Saturday and found five of the little annoying critters 😤

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[runamuk]

The study took several species of animals and locked them up with a quantity of ticks.  Opossums were more effective at grooming the pests off themselves than the other test subjects.

I am now curious if the study included, guinea fowl, turkeys, chickens?

When I had horses EPM which is essentially lethal was not worth the risk. Opossim were not welcome on my farm.  Now they get a pass as long as they stay in the wild. Skunks get the same pass. 

Ticks however are awful I have found several on me after just moseying around work.  I wasnt even near the brush.  Its gonna be a wretched year.

At least most of you have someone to remove them.  Imagine one you cant reach and no one to remove it 

[Gringo31]

At least most of you have someone to remove them.  Imagine one you cant reach and no one to remove it

Run,
I'm sure a request for help would......... work 

[Pinetar]

At least most of you have someone to remove them.  Imagine one you cant reach and no one to remove it

Get a pet Opossum then we will all know if it is true and we can put this nasty thread to rest!!

[ffbowhunter]

Just pulled one off a couple minutes ago. I’ve been back from turkey hunting for two days, sucked for me good! I was in the NE.

[Curly]

[Eli346]

I've had several people tell me they're pretty thick on the west side which is unusual but I haven't ran into any yet.

[olsy]

I was in the NE corner last weekend and my hunting partner had 3 on him.  I had sprayed down with permethrin and didn't have any on me.