I live in Heard County Georgia. It is not uncommon to see ticks every day. I try to keep The grass cut as short as I can. There are a lot of oak trees and tall hickory trees and sometimes it seems as if they fall out of the trees. Ticks were not a problem when I grew up as a teen here in the 1970s. The land here is constantly being changed over from hardwoods to Pine. If you look on Google Maps pine farms are being established everywhere. I do not know how it is in other parts of the country but I cannot help but wonder is the pH level of the earth changing and causing these little monsters to be able to inhabit the land more easily. There were not pine forests everywhere back in the 70s.
I have no solution for these ticks I do wear rubber boots.I have family members that live in other parts of Georgia and they are not so far out in the forest as I am, however they experience a lot of ticks too.
I have not been tested for tick disease. However I cannot eat red meat without becoming sick. My daughter was tested for meat allergies and is now allergic to red meat. We have red about alpha gal syndrome and wonder is this what has happened as our neighbor has been diagnosed with it.
If the nymph tick get on (sometimes it’s like a million baby spiders)the best thing to stop them from moving rapidly is to take some type of oil, baby oil olive oil etc. and saturate where the ticks are then they will not be able to move.
I live in Heard County Georgia. It is not uncommon to see ticks every day. I try to keep The grass cut as short as I can. There are a lot of oak trees and tall hickory trees and sometimes it seems as if they fall out of the trees. Ticks were not a problem when I grew up as a teen here in the 1970s. The land here is constantly being changed over from hardwoods to Pine. If you look on Google Maps pine farms are being established everywhere. I do not know how it is in other parts of the country but I cannot help but wonder is the pH level of the earth changing and causing these little monsters to be able to inhabit the land more easily. There were not pine forests everywhere back in the 70s.
I have no solution for these ticks I do wear rubber boots.I have family members that live in other parts of Georgia and they are not so far out in the forest as I am, however they experience a lot of ticks too.
I have not been tested for tick disease. However I cannot eat red meat without becoming sick. My daughter was tested for meat allergies and is now allergic to red meat. We have red about alpha gal syndrome and wonder is this what has happened as our neighbor has been diagnosed with it.
If the nymph tick get on (sometimes it’s like a million baby spiders)the best thing to stop them from moving rapidly is to take some type of oil, baby oil olive oil etc. and saturate where the ticks are then they will not be able to move.