Ticks next spring ;).

Been around 30-40 below for a week or so here so would hope that helps.

That being said I didnt have a single one on me last year and I work in the great outdoors
 
Most studies of tick mortality/survival have indicated that populations are far more dependent on populations of warm blooded hosts. More animals = more ticks and vice versa. Ticks can survive extreme cold by going dormant and slowing their metabolism down, but without an adequate food supply they cannot lay as many eggs and populations decrease.

Patrick
 
yomomma said:
So i read somewhere that extreme cold for a few days will put a dent in the tick population.

Think it was cold enough, long enough?
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Well, we see minus 40 pretty regularly here in Manitoba winter - not unexpected to see that as night time low for a week or more at a time. Come Spring, not many "dents" showing!!!
 
Ticks contain a form of acid in their blood which makes them extremely durable even in cold weather! It basically acts as antifreeze.
 
It’s is colder in Manitoba than most places on earth, and yesterday we were supposedly colder than Mars. We still have plenty of ticks.
 
If it results in a 20% reduction in their population, that would be great. But I have 2 jugs of permethrin ready to go. My neighbours whom live year round in the area have a couple Guinea Fowl around their residence to keep the ticks at bay.
 
patricksbb391 said:
If it results in a 20% reduction in their population, that would be great. But I have 2 jugs of permethrin ready to go. My neighbours whom live year round in the area have a couple Guinea Fowl around their residence to keep the ticks at bay.
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I go to Pennsylvania a few times a year and the ticks in the mountains there are absolutely awful. Been bitten more than a few times and it always makes me nervous . The Guinea fowl are tick eating machines! My friends have a flock of them and those birds are quite comical. We use a permetherin spray on our clothes when we are hunting. If we don't we'll come back with a dozen of em crawling on our pants and jackets. Having an insect bury its head into your skin is the kind of thing that makes me want to declare an all out jihad on bugs. Been tested for Lyme 3 times now. Still good to go !
 
We are quite infested with deer ticks here. A couple years ago, we had a Feb melt, all the snow was gone, then it immediately dropped to -27c for several nights. The next spring there were fewer ticks.
I think the snow cover protects them from the cold.

Permethrin is the only thing that is very effective.
 
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