# Ticks! GAAAAHHH! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508 "2008-05-24T23:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/41 "2008-05-28T02:45:51Z")
Ticks are even more evil. Screw the damn bastards. What the hell does a tick do anyway? At least we know how many insects are beneficial on this planet. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/42 "2008-05-28T02:46:10Z")
[QUOTE=sinjin] Four ticks one day. Bastards. Hope I don’t get the Lyme. :mad: [/QUOTE] Mowing the five acres here, I get half a dozen a weekend. Haven’t gotten Lyme yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/43 "2008-05-28T02:55:58Z")
My husband’s family has always worked outdoors. They swear by adding some bleach to the evening bath water, claim that it kills ticks, chiggers, and fleas. I don’t know how much bleach to add to the water, I think they just put in a splash or two. I have not tried this method myself, and so I will not vouch for its effectiveness, but I think that if I was out in tick or chigger infested areas, I’d certainly give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/44 "2008-05-28T12:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] My husband’s family has always worked outdoors. They swear by adding some bleach to the evening bath water, claim that it kills ticks, chiggers, and fleas. I don’t know how much bleach to add to the water, I think they just put in a splash or two. I have not tried this method myself, and so I will not vouch for its effectiveness, but I think that if I was out in tick or chigger infested areas, I’d certainly give it a shot. [/QUOTE] We used to take “bleach baths” after picking blackberries (which are notorious for growing side by side with chiggers). Whether it worked or not, I don’t recall. We were always covered with bug bites, nicks, scraps, scabs, etc. as kids - it was all part of growing up in the country. And I don’t think bats eat ticks - they mostly eat flying insects, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/45 "2008-05-28T12:43:47Z")
I went to a house fire last night, and somehow picked up 3 of the mofos. The grass was cut, and I didn’t roll on the ground at any time. On second thought, they may have been bedbugs that I picked up at the house we did training in 2 weeks ago. The place was seriously trashed before we ever started breaching walls and crawling through the crap on the floor. I can’t tell the difference between bedbugs and brown deer ticks. Whatever they were, 2 were crawling on my neck, and the third was on my thigh when I was getting in the shower. Either way, I think it’s time to fumigate my turnout gear. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/46 "2008-05-29T15:16:10Z")
For those who might be interested, I have created a thread about the “tick burrowing” question in General Questions [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=469806) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508/47 "2008-05-30T01:57:59Z")
[QUOTE=NajaNivea] Well, Maine has just now been crossed off my list of potential future places to live. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m here to tell ya that you can put a big X on Minnesota and Wisconsin, too. Last weekend, I picked off 4 wood ticks and one deer tick. Wood ticks don’t bug me (hee. get it?). I find 'em, I remove 'em. Deer ticks, though, are more likely to carry Lyme. I don’t know for sure that wood ticks even carry Lyme. Do they? Anyway, that was northern Minnesota. For a real tick-fest, just take a quick hike through some tall grasss along the Mississippi River on the Wisonsin side just south of Prescott. Wear shorts. When you come out you’ll think you’ve discovered a new medical condition: Multiple Mobile Mole syndrome. You’ll still be finding them (or they, you) in your car a few days later. Groovy. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ticks-gaaaahhh/450508.md?page=2)