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We need a vaccine for Lyme disease, it would be a lot more effective than paying $3K per kilometre of path per year.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/
The good news is that there’s a promising new one in the pipeline but Lyme is only one of the diseases which ticks spread:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
We need a vaccine for Lyme disease, it would be a lot more effective than paying $3K per kilometre of path per year.
A healthy wolf population is the proper (trophic cascading) solution to the tick epidemic.
I would much rather encounter a hungry tick on a recreational trail than a hungry wolf
It’s really clear, sometimes, who hasn’t seen a place that isn’t paved.
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Linen clothes are awesome. Long trousers and long sleeves and almost as cool as short sleeves and shorts in shade, and cooler in direct sun.
Tell me your linen ironing tricks. I have a linen shirt that I dread wearing because of the effort that goes into getting it wrinkle free after every wash.
I've spread beneficial nematodes several times before and the following 2-3 years I get notably fewer tick bites. They are a bit of a pain to spread over any significant area.
Can you give us some more detail on the nematodes, or point us to an article?
I got bitten by a mosquito in Ottawa a couple years ago that sent me to the hospital.. I stopped near the river while cycling to see a raccoon for few seconds, was more than enough for that lil sucker to do the job.
I got bitten by a tick at a cottage near Ottawa and got a fever then bell's palsy a month later. I didn't even notice I got bit at all at the time. A year later, I went to the hospital for a swollen knee and had surgery done, and ended up being tested positive for lyme disease. The doc says you're too young to have bell's palsy and arthritis. Careful out there!
We have (had?) some ticks in our backyard and I came across these which I thought was a clever attack angle: tick tubes. Permethrin-soaked cotton balls in a tube, mice find them and build nests out of the freely available cotton, ticks that the mice have gathered while walking around die when they come back to the nest.
It does work a little, but it's even more effective to just get some chickens. I did find permethrin works great on clothing - when I used to go hunting a lot I'd get ticks on me every time, and the thing is they climb off of your boots in the car and go under the seats or wherever so you don't get bitten until three days later when you're driving back from grocery shopping or whatever. After I started using permethr…
Don't know which is worse - - contracting Lyme disease, or Parkinson's disease from Permethrin and other pesticide exposure: https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2009/09/occupatio... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27756609/
It's only hazardous when wet. I spray my clothes and then let them dry on the clothesline.