Posted: 9/21/2008 3:32:57 PM EDT
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My son and I went squirrel hunting this morning. As we were sitting there, he noticed some TINY light brown bugs crawling on him. They were probably about 1/2 mm in length. Upon closer inspection, they appeared to be ticks. They were a light brown (flesh colored) and hard to kill. We probably had hundred of them on us. I've heard of turkey ticks but I thought they were a little bigger than these and I also thought they were dark brown or black like regular ticks. Just for reference, we were in southern Indiana in Pike County. |
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We came home, showered, washed all the clothes, fumigated the truck with high-strength tick spray, and hopefully killed them all. I would never have even noticed them if my son hadn't seen them. I spend more time outside than he does and they matched my skin perfectly. He's a little lighter-complected and they were just barely visible on his arms. I HATE TICKS...ALL OF 'EM! |
Check under your man parts...they love to burrow in there.. |
That was going to be my next question. Do they burrow in like chiggers? I haven't noticed any on me like regular ticks but I have dozens of raised bumps like chigger bites or really bad mosquito bites. Did I mention that I REALLY HATE TICKS! |
Poor choice of words..they really don't "burrow". They attach themselves and are a bitch to remove. My son got them once and I had to use a pair or tweezers to remove them.. |
Then it could be he has chiggers...I heard that the liquid Benadryl, that you use to keep poison ivy from itching, helps. |
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I really think they're ticks because we saw hundreds of the small tan ticks on us. Chiggers are small, red, and easy to kill. These looked like ticks except they were tan-colored and were very hard to kill. I just know they itch like hell! I'm going to stop by the drug store later to try some of the remedies mentioned here. |
also was told they are more prevalent in Indiana than anywhere else [:// the up side is that they're only found in 92 counties 
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I got into a bunch of these bastards (whichever they are) in the Hoosier Nat'l Forest near Huron a couple of years ago, in September (is that too late for larvae or nymphs?). For the first three days I thought that somehow poison ivy oil was soaking through my clothes, as crazy as that sounds and as much poison ivy I've walked through. At the end of day three, I noticed that there were ~.5mm ticks on me, about 75 or so. And this was with almost all standard tick precautions: Pant legs tucked into socks, shirt tucked into pants. This is usually good enough to keep the big ones out of the undergarments so you can burn 'em to death. Had I been following full tick precaution (the above + a clove of raw garlic a day) I probably wouldn't have gotten them at all. Those bastards hate garlic. You stink, but no ticks. And I had been to the ForestService office in Bedford and they had a poster on Turkey Ticks. Took me three days for it to register...my boss had had lyme disease before, so we got Friday off 
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