I just wanted to see if ticks and skeeters are present in your neck of the woods and if so how bad are they?
Please include what area (don't need to be exact) you are from.

Thanks Mike

Do you have a tick problem?

Do you have a skeeter problem?

On a scale of 0 to 10, with "10" being you won't go outside at times because of the pests, how would you rate your area?

Do either of the pests carry diseases in your area?

Do you plan to spray to control the pest population?

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Mike Maier
aka
The Plant Doc

Here in central Oklahoma it was looking like the ticks were going to be bad this year. I'd say a 2 or 3 for a couple of weeks. I expected things to get very bad, but I've not seen another tick for a week. Mosquitos are at 2 in town, barely a 1 here at the farm. We're very dilligent about dumping standing water. We have lymes, rocky mountain spotted tick fever and west nile in Oklahoma, as well as heart worm in dogs from mosquitos, erlichia from ticks, and bobcat fever in cats from ticks. All very dangerous stuff.

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Dave
Even my growlights are getting restless!

I need to ask...we are surrounded by hay fields that are currently very tall. I understand that ticks like tall grass but I don't know what to look for or what they look like

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If you go out into the tall grass wear light colored clothing, this way the critters stand out better. Spray DEET or Avon's Skin So Soft on your exposed skin and clothing, this will help keep the ticks from realizing you are a meal ticket

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Mike Maier
aka
The Plant Doc

We're in Zone 5, Northern Indiana.
I've seen one tic on one of the dogs already so maybe a 2 and the Mosquitos are worse this year than they were last year. Probably a 6 or more when it starts getting dark outside. We have a pond on the property, and the neighbors accross the street do too so I'm certain that makes the skeeters worse.

Mosquitoes ... I'd say about a 2 or 3 (mind you, I've got a pretty shady backyard)

Ticks ... 0 I haven't come across any

Dave --> Re: the garlic oil repellent, I think I may have seen the same tv news serial. The name of the company was Garlic Research or something along those lines, based out of California I believe. They have the product available for sale up here in Canada, but I have yet to try it.

Frann

Hey Frann...where have you seen that garlic oil repellent...I'd like to try some...I'm in Southern Ontario. No tick problem here...but mosquitos are bad this year...a good 9 in our are for sure.

We are on the west coast of flordia and have a very bad tick problem. We got some mulch from Home Depot and the mulch was from New Orleans and full of ticks. My dog rolled in the mulch and brought them into the house. 8 weeks later and 3 different pest guys, we are almost ready to leave the state. On last Sunday we got 5 boxes of Mule Team Borex and put in into the carpets and on the wood flooring. The ticks seem to die quite nicley. Anyone out there have this house tick problem?
Signed- at my wits end.

TICKS- well, haven't seen any BUT my son just finished a month long round of antibiotics because he had Lyme Disease. the doc said they've seen a big increase in the cases they've come across with a positive test result for Lyme. we only knew because his hip had been bothering him for months and we finally had tests done.

MOSQUITOS- very bad this year. i would have to say a 10! i went out to water the other evening and i swear i got about 20 welts from the stuiped buggers! they are literally swarms of them. i don't have any standing water- and i don't see any neighbors having any but we had terrible floods this spring and they said because of it the skeeters would be especially bad because of the standing water left in places. oh well. when we do go out for more than a few minutes i do spray the kids with off.