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mishman · 06-12-2021, 12:07 PM

Yes, glad you corrected the record. I had never heard that pine trees are where ticks hang out. Rather tall grasses, brush and even ground litter can host ticks. It is a bad year but hopefully we are through the worst of it now.

One thing I do that seems to work is take a 2-3 inch diameter pls pipe, cut into six inch lengths, paint brown to make them less noticeable (to us), and stuff them with permethrin treated cotton balls. Mice then pull the cotton out to line their nests and poof, it kills the ticks (but not the mice - too bad that would have been a bonus). When I am getting wood from my wood pile in the fall, I come open field mice nests and there is the cotton in the middle of the nests. Key is to not soak the cotton too heavily as it tends to turn off the mice from using.

Every spring and fall I collect the tubes, reload with new cotton and off we go.

06-12-2021, 12:07 PM	#30
mishman Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 167 Thanks: 50 Thanked 81 Times in 39 Posts	Pine trees don't harbor ticks Yes, glad you corrected the record. I had never heard that pine trees are where ticks hang out. Rather tall grasses, brush and even ground litter can host ticks. It is a bad year but hopefully we are through the worst of it now. One thing I do that seems to work is take a 2-3 inch diameter pls pipe, cut into six inch lengths, paint brown to make them less noticeable (to us), and stuff them with permethrin treated cotton balls. Mice then pull the cotton out to line their nests and poof, it kills the ticks (but not the mice - too bad that would have been a bonus). When I am getting wood from my wood pile in the fall, I come open field mice nests and there is the cotton in the middle of the nests. Key is to not soak the cotton too heavily as it tends to turn off the mice from using. Every spring and fall I collect the tubes, reload with new cotton and off we go.