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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 8, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

> . The worse ticks I ever came across was
> in early spring when we went hiking in southern Illinois's Shawnee
> National Forest. Fortunately, it was cool enough that we were wearing
> jeans, but we had to stop every few minutes and brush the ticks off
> our shoes, socks, and pants.

When I first came to live here the place was lousy with ticks due to a  
caretaker not treating her dog or mowing. Among other efforts, I put  
dog tick collars on my pull-on boots. I also made a strong wettable  
sulphur solution and dipped my Levis into it and hung them to drip  
dry. It helped a lot.

A friend here and I are fully agreed that woods walks are only  
sensible during the winter.