Re: Seeing more ticks this years..

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> "doctoroe" <doctoroe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>We are seeing more ticks this year than ever before. Lots of nymphs.
>>Check yourself even after walking in grass. They seem to be everywhere.
> 
> 
> No kidding. I have been using a tick drag behind the tractor on the
trails 
> around our property and the cloth has literally thousands of them. I
worry 
> about Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and Lime (although I must be immune
to 
> Lime by now)  

I, too, have seen more ticks this year.   I've pulled some 
off my clothing and
some off my skin.

Please elaborate on "tick drag."   Is this homemade or 
purchased?   Does it
reduce the number of ticks on your land or merely serve as 
an informal census?

Daniel B. Martin