Out of Pod Experience

All should be checking themselves for Ticks.
In my area, neighbors been reminding each for past 2 months, because it looked like the this year was different.

Been pulling out many more ticks than years past and seems, like w/ other stuff, species type shifting areas or new types around.

The Tick disease's are pretty fuckin' bad if takes hold so check yourselves, remind others as you would a loved one to drive safe or "seatbelt".

They vary in size from obvious to looking like a speck of dirt/debris/mole. Some you'll never know are there, some you WILL feel a bite. So before you rip/scratch at bites, inspect the area.
It's hard to not scratch first, but some of these small ass one's have felt like a bee sting.

P.S. - If your RL job is biology stuff:
Priority 1- Healing/developing the better boob.
" " 2- Better Tick/mosquito/chigger repellant/cure stuff FFS

My dog usually ends up with a couple each year. Nasty little things. I absolutely hate pulling them out. I get the creeps just thinking about them.

It's always good to do a check anytime after you have been running through any foliage. They prefer warm and humid so for everyone that has been noting extra heat lately there is a good chance you'll see more of them this year.

Now I'm all itchy.

My dog's vet says Frontline doesn't work for fleas and ticks anymore. It doesn't bother the latest generations of those vermin. Then again, that could just be his way to stick us with a huge bill for the new, cutting edge medicine. I wouldn't put it past him.

After nine days of turkey hunting, I think I pulled 6 or 7 off of me (not all at once, thankfully).

Hate those damn things.

DEET doesn't do jack **** and permithrin smells terrible and to be honest, is a bit too dangerous even when applied only to clothing as directed.

Enjoy keeping track of your sperm count with an abacus.

After a quick trip to google I have surmised that you can't count sperm with an abacus

Ticks like any crevices, so check all yer crevices

Tip I picked up in the USMC and also works against chiggers is, unmanly as it is but it works so men wear it under pants and boots so no one can see and mock you endlessly for it, pantyhose!


Also not fishnets

Had ticks so many times It's way beyond funny. Every time I go camping i get **** drunk and decide to go for midnight wanders throughout the bushgrass.

Couple of more tips

Do NOT remove them by putting vaseline or anything else on them to choke them.

This is a old wifes tale and does WAY more damage then good. If the tick is infected with any disease choking them (which is what applying vaseline/cream or anything will actually make them regurgitate their stomach contents into your bloodstream before loosening their bite which increases the chance of catching infection from them.

Can google how to remove them with a pair of tweezers (special ones for the purpose is best as regular ones will also make you squeeze their innards into the bitewound by squeezing the main body

Once removed stick em in a food bag and then in the freezer, reason being that if you do develop some sort of infection then you can take the bag to the hospital and they can test the actual tick to narrow down what infections it was carrying.

At one point I had 10 ticks in my freezer lol

For your viewing pleasure tonight's movie will be Ticks