Ticks are heavy in this heat in the North East

[BH-LandStar]

Was out scouting an area that not too many folks get to any more...It was the western shores of Onondaga Lake near Solvay, NY....Used to eb 5 hotels, 3 casinos, and 2 amusement parks on these shores back in the late 1800s through the mid 1900s...Industry put an end to all this with the introduction of the Solvay Proccess plant, which started making soda ash from brine and limestone....The lake had many underground brine wells...Salt production was a major industry here in the "Salt City" for a long time...You can still smell the salt on the shorelines, but the lake was contaminated with chemicals and 25 pounds of mercury a day being dumped into it for nearly 100 years..that is 912,500 pounds of Mercury....I could still find some of the remnants of the old hotels....one of the foundations and wood floor jousts is underwater in about 5 feet of water...I could also see the ties from the old railway that went along the shoreline...I just do not understand why this area let industry destroy so much of it's history, like money was more important that our heritage...so sad...Anywho....Whenever I am out in the woods, or sandy areas, I immediately take a shower after I get home...On this occasion, I found a tick roaming on my sock when I took it off...These things give me the heabie geebies...It was not attached to me, so I picked it off, put it on a paper plate and doused it with WD-40...they LOVE WD-40...NOT!!!....As you all well know, killing these little buggers is not easy...they have bodies that are armour coated it seems...this is why you normally go to pull em off ya and the heads stay attached, then you got to dig them bad boys out or go see the doc to do it...If they are attached, I normally heat up the head of a pin or needle, and touch it to the tick...they LOVE this too...NOT!!!...makes em back right out....I think you would want to get out of dodge too if someone put a hot poker to your butt...lol...So check yourself after hunting where ticks may be....luckily, this was the only one I found on me or my clothing....


HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[bottlebum]

I know that last summer was bad for ticks here in southern In. It was nothing to have a dozen of the critters crawling on you after a short jaunt in the woods. The chiggers were real bad too. I think the chiggers are worse than the ticks. At least you can see and remove a tick. Not so, with a chigger.

HH, bottlebum