Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 09:48 AM
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This is a sheet my wife left out in the field when getting a swarm of bees yesterday. Today when she went back to pick it up and see if all the bees seemed to be moved into the swarm trap she saw the ticks on it. I always thought ticks were attracted to white probably because of how many I get under my socks but that could just be a convenient location for them so never had anything else to back up my thoughts. Tell now. So I believe they are attracted to white. What do you think?
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 10:21 AM
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I think the white just shows them better, imagine how many you really have .... X2
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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I think the white just shows them better, imagine how many you really have .... X3 Usually you don't know ya have them till ya feel them on your skin
Till that day.....
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 10:37 AM
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I think the white just shows them better, imagine how many you really have .... X3 Usually you don't know ya have them till ya feel them on your skin So I'm still correct since my skin is white, very white infact in my legs they never see any sun.
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 10:40 AM
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Bugs are out early went out Sat morning for turkey the mosquitoes were out in force in the shade.
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Bugs are out early went out Sat morning for turkey the mosquitoes were out in force in the shade. Wow not out yet here but the peepers are.
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 11:02 AM
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Interesting, I had never heard ticks were attracted to white.
All of my turkey hunting outer wear is treated with permethrin before season starts and I rarely ever see a live tick crawling. I also have draw strings on my pant legs that I cinch tight around my boots to restrict access as well. Permethrin is not a repellant, it kills them pretty quick once they make contact with it.
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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I had a couple of ADC guys I know in a nearby state that had to clear out a cat horder's house after the woman died. They went into the house with full white Tyvek suits taped up at the sleeves and cuffs. Gloves and respirators. Ammonia off the chart. They immediately got covered in fleas...... Took over 100 cats out of there. Pictures of litter boxes overflowing and poop everywhere , piles of empty cat food cans. Found about a dozen deceased cats too. Just yuck....
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04/15/24 01:09 PM
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good thing I identify as Tan........
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If you read the collection method for tick surveys they use a white sheet drug over a large area due to the attraction to white in order to collect the ticks.
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This is a sheet my wife left out in the field when getting a swarm of bees yesterday. Today when she went back to pick it up and see if all the bees seemed to be moved into the swarm trap she saw the ticks on it. I always thought ticks were attracted to white probably because of how many I get under my socks but that could just be a convenient location for them so never had anything else to back up my thoughts. Tell now. So I believe they are attracted to white. What do you think? THIS IS WHY I DON"T TURKEY hunt in spring anymore.........
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 03:14 PM
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Having had to do Tick surveys while in the Military, can say you want to really see ticks take a 48 " X 48 " piece of white cloth and put a golf ball sized piece of dry ice in the middle of it wait just a couple hrs and you'll want to stay completely out of the woods. FYI for a legitimate survey 50' X 50' plot had to have 100+ ticks on the cloth, couple times had that many on me at end of the day. Then learned that soaking BDU'S in 1 Oz of Permethrin concentrate in 5 gals of water allow to air dry could survey all day without single tick on self or uniform
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04/15/24 05:46 PM
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This is a sheet my wife left out in the field when getting a swarm of bees yesterday. Today when she went back to pick it up and see if all the bees seemed to be moved into the swarm trap she saw the ticks on it. I always thought ticks were attracted to white probably because of how many I get under my socks but that could just be a convenient location for them so never had anything else to back up my thoughts. Tell now. So I believe they are attracted to white. What do you think? THIS IS WHY I DON"T TURKEY hunt in spring anymore......... This is why I use Sawyer's Permethrin.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Ticks attacked to white
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04/15/24 08:39 PM
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Ticks and car accidents are my big fear......jk
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