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Some thoughts:
- "Damminix" (or close) is a product consisting of cardboard tubes with
wads of cotton inside. Mice come along and take bits of the cotton to make nests
with. The cotton's impregnated with something which kills the ticks during the
part of their life cycle they spend with the mice. You place them around the
land at a suggested density. I've used them, but couldn't say if they are
effective or not.
- Wood ticks (bigger, more common, and as far as I know not linked to
lyme disease) versus deer ticks (can be almost invisibly tiny when young, can
cause lyme disease)
- Life cycle of deer ticks requires (so I understand) deer and mice at
different stages. Might be easier to discourage the population of the larger
animals, for instance mouse habitat could be reduced pretty effectively.
- There's a strong chemical you can apply to your skin to discourage ticks
(sorry, forget the name), but I would check it out thoroughly before using.
Never have used it.
- A vaccine against lyme disease does exist.
- There's a lot written about lyme disease. I'm sure a search on google
would turn up a lifetime of reading.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:21
AM
Subject: [GBlist] responsible land
stewardship
Hi everyone,
This isn't a building question, but I thought
maybe some of you might have some insight about this problem since it is a
land stewardship issue.
We have a little over 2 acres that are thickly
wooded with mostly pines, wax myrtles and various other trees. The ticks
are outrageous. I don't know what to do. I keep finding ticks on
my kids and my husband has already gone through one course of antibiotics for
lyme disease. I don't want to poison the forest to kill the ticks.
I've been told that guinea fowl are good at decreasing tick populations, but
does anyone on this list have any other ideas for non-toxic tick
reduction?
Any thoughts on this subject would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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