06/28/12, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 955
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Ticks
We bought ten wooded acres in March to build a weekend place and workshop. I cleared around a half an acre for the building plus around 300 X 30 feet for the lane. The temperatures here this Spring were above normal so the ticks came out earlier than usual but surprisingly I only found a few tick while doing the work and they were the big dog ticks that are easy to pick off. I mentioned to a friend that I was going to get a load of debark material from a sawmill to use as mulch on the banks of the lane and he said not to do it. He said that this material is loaded with ticks and since they cut logs from all over I will get every kind of tick there is so instead of using the mulch I sowed the banks in White Clover. About three weeks ago I decided to make a shade garden in the woods, I cleared out an area about 25' X 50' plus a 5' path about 60' long leading to the shade garden. While clearing this area I only picked up a couple ticks and they again were the big dog ticks. Once I cleared the area I laid down landscaping fabric and covered this with hardwood landscaping mulch, not debark, I got from a mill that produces the mulch. Since putting the mulch down I have found hundreds of ticks on me, all sizes, from the big ticks to the very tiny ones you can hardly see, and I have around 30 bites from ones that I didn't see. I am still skeptical that the ticks came from the mulch but I can't see any other possibility. Anyone have any opinions on where the ticks came from?
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