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>have a successful all-day hiking date with a qt
>get home
>find a tick on my waist, attached to a scab with red mark emanating from it
>carefully try to remove it
>accidentally crush it, it spews its guts into my blood
>red bulls eye rash has already begun to appear
Ruined an otherwise excellent day, fuck these horrific little monsters. I'd as soon die as contract a red meat allergy. Why has no one invented a method to eradicate these vile creatures?
>>710955
way to go dummy
Let it live inside you. It provides nutrients and cleans your blood for you. Lime disease only affects dogs.
>>710955
say "Hi" to grandma when you reach the other side
Tick removal did you google it
>as a kid always went hunting with friends tipping up corrugated iron in the bush
>always Steve Irwined wrestled Shingleback Lizards and kept them around for a day before releasing them
>grow up
>realize around 50% of them had Paralysis Ticks on them, we used to pick them up by hand and carefully burn the ticks off before letting the Lizards go
>around where I live it was also a 50/50 chance of a Brown Snake being under that piece of tin instead of a Shingleback
>even the small ones like pic related had lockjaw and would crush a kids finger like nothing.
Fuck we were lucky.
The ticks still creep me out the most.
>>710967
>paralysis ticks exist
goddamnit, Australia
>>710967
>aussie
>ticks creep him out
well everything else would creep me out frankly
against ticks you can use spray inspection and washing your clothes in hot water.
try that with a sea croc or one if them giant ass sneak eating spiders.
>>710955
Use a honeybee to sting the bite area right in the center. Unless of course you are allergic to honeybee stings. Honeybee stings are fucking amazing for infections like that. But, only if you catch it early. Also, go to a doctor for god sake.
>>710957
>>710967
Stories like this tell me that the movie Avatar could have been filmed and based in Aussie land and you'd have gotten the same movie. Only instead of sexy blue chicks it'd be the native negros.
>>710967
Ahh bobtails are so nice though, we used to get a few in our yard until our dog took a liking to them, used to feed them fruit and watch them carefully crunch it for ages.
This was from about a week ago, only a small one and I removed it correctly and still have this tender lump. Fuck those little cunts.
>>711135
i can fap to this
>>710955
I hope you are going to a doctor for Lyme Disease
>>711135
what were your pre-cautions when you went out?
How fast did u catch the critter?
>>710955
Thats Lime Disease, its not fatal but you should get to a doctor ASAP
>>711003
Snakes and all the other deadly shit are easily seen though and you'd have to go out of your way to find one, ticks on the other hand are hiding in the grass everywhere.
>>710955
ticks are hard as fuck to kill, theyre a jerk bug
>>711132
Oh god it's so cute.
Surprised there are not more people freaking out about that bull's eye rash. You really ought to get to a doctor, if you have not already. Pretty typical sign of lyme disease.
(Your's looks smaller than the examples I've seen, but still very similar.)
>>710955
OP you might have Lyme Disease so see a doctor. RIP
>>710955
3-30 days for bulls eye rash to appear you lying fuck. Since you went on a day hike and found the tick on the same day you were in no danger. Removing the tick like a deranged nignog - that's on you idiot.
I hope ticks can feel pain
>>712192
that's easily the best thing I'll see all day and it's 0555, congratulations.
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Just got back from the Doc in the box, he said the rash looked suspect and prescribed me some antibiotics and sent me to a lab for some blood work.
friendly reminder to you all: wear your bug repellent and carry a tick key
>>712534
>mfw I never don't wear pants
>>712540
I was wearing jeans and a long-sleeved fishing shirt. It must have crawled in between my shirt's front buttons before nestling down just above my waistband
>>712550
Are you being serious or just contrarian?
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>>712553
100% serious. This is the kind of shirt I was wearing.
>>712563
You gotta tuck your t-shirt into your pants, bro.
>>712569
I was on a date and didn't want to look like a total square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckFP-DJkG6g
tick genocide the best day of my life
>>711874
If OP is Australian:
There's a fucking ludicrous situation in Australia at the moment where the peak medical industry just refuses to recognise that Lyme disease exists in this country. There are people with all the symptoms of Lyme disease, yet doctors will not diagnose it because no conclusive scientific studies exist that prove the existence of borrelium.
So if you're a Lyme disease sufferer in Australia; you're fucked. Good luck getting treatment.
>>710955
I've had Lyme disease before and I didn't know what was worse the antibiotics or the disease itself. You might want to get checked up, though, I know a guy who's mom never did and she's all fucked up.
>>712611
can confirm, I've even had professionals blatantly tell me "that species isn't found in this location" despite being a trained professional myself having removed said fuckers from patients
>>712534
that thing looks like a bottle opener or a nail remover that comes on a handle
If all the ticks in the world died, nothing would be affected, except the world would be a nicer place
>>712922
This is correct. Same goes for mosquitoes.
>>712534
>antibiotics when you aren't sure what it is
That's how you get super bugs
>>712635
that is why you should anti-biotics therapy after you get a tick if you suspect it could have lyme and not wait for the symptoms to develop.
getting it early is way easier and less painful.
think of it like dosing yourself with anti-virals if you are exposed of hiv blood not wait weeks for a positive result.
>>711212
*Lyme disease. I'm willing to bet this isn't OP's photo, it usually takes at least 24 hours to contract lymes bacteria from a tick bite. If he really removed it right after the hike , there certainly should not already have been a bulls-eye rash. If it it actually is lymes it is no big deal caught this early ], a course of antibiotics should cure it.
>>712929
Not too long ago, people felt this way about wolves. Just because we we don't full understand the ecological role of these creatures it doesn't mean they shouldn't be here. Evolution doesn't favor certain organisms over one another. If they evolved to be here, they must have a role.
>>712932
Antibiotics like doxycycline are a tried and true way to cure lymes. Also ticks are just a vector for the bacteria that causes the disease. Read a book retard.
>>712929
Ticks yes. For the most part they are not part of anything else's food chain.
Mosquitos on the other hand are way way more common, forming vast swarms, and also fly, making them a viable food source for birds like swallows, as well as dragonflies and probably spiders and who knows what else. Also fish eat mosquitos in the larval stage.
Ticks could probably be wiped out without the world changing much, but mosquitos are so common and numerous I am positive they are a food source for quite a few things, their removal would have an effect.
I do understand their disease spreading ability, but wiping out a species that makes such a large percentage of the worlds biomass seems like a bad idea.
>>711845
>takes pic of underwear and legs to show tiny blurry dot
>is offended when someone mentions they are aroused
lol
>>713072
Not him/her but that qt wasnt offended desu.
>>712583
>doesn't want to look like a total square
>takes girl hiking
The whole point of the exercise is to see if she sticks around.
>>713042
I was underage at the time and my mom didn't believe I had it despite my symptoms showing so it was like a week or so after before I got tested.
>>713072
Not underwear, pic related. Not even slightly offended champ.
>>713087
Spot on.
>>713072
i was actually trolling tho it takes many minutes of hardcore porn to get me aroused
>>714078
>takes many minutes of hardcore porn to get me aroused
not sure i why you're telling us that dear anon
>>714104
Nah too much work even tho not samefag
I've had lyme disease. Paralyzed half my face. Recommended actions: liberally coat all outdoor cloths with permethrin (keep clothes and bottle away from cats, wet permethrin will kill them), wash regularly with teatree soap or other soap with strong oils mixed in (eg peppermint, eucalyptus, teatree, etc). Super satisfying to know that any ticks on your body will die in a wave of minty internal chemical burns. Cheap alternatives to premixed teatree soaps: grab teatree extract, peppermint cooking addative, and eucalyptus extract and add it to a bottle of plain body wash. I just use the trader joes shit though. Also, once you've mixed up some soap, go outside and kill bugs with it. It's good fun.
>>710955
> mfw I live in Deep East Texas
> mfw I remember there being tons of ticks around when I was a kid
> mfw fire ants moved in and murdered all of them
> mfw we lost the horned toads
> mfw this is an acceptable trade
within the past eek i have had 2 ticks in me and 5 on me, its worth noting that other than this past week i have not found a tick on me in the past 5- years
>>712922
Tick genocide best day of my life.
>>714275
>2 ticks in me
Storytiem?
>>714501
woke up the other morning with one burrowed into my side, hadnt engorged much yet, other one was in my arm after fishing all dsy today , im telling you this is going to be a bad year for ticks
Masshole here. Pulled the first tick of the year off me today after a wak inna. Fucker was a young male durrtick. FUCK it begins.
>>710955
Where was this?
City/town?
>>713066
>icks could probably be wiped out without the world changing much
it does not matter whether the world changes or not.
what matters is that you want to kill because you are scared of them.
>>714679
you say that like it's morally wrong or even unnatural. nothing has the right to exist. the universe doesn't judge things as right or wrong.
>>714681
I am not saying that is is morally wrong. I am saying that is is pathetic to be an hedonist, which means killing whatever bugs you.
>>714695
good point
i'm not really gunna play devil's advocate for that other guy but i'd like to think people have a better reason than inconvenience
>>714523
Santa Monica Mountains, California
We were on the Sandstone Peak hike
>>714679
When did I say I wanted to kill them because I was scared of them? I pointed out the potential problems of wiping out any species, as all are interlinked. Mosquitoes have a greater role in nature than just spreading disease. As do ticks, though to a lesser extent. At no point did I advocate wiping out either species out of fear.
Though if you want to go down that road, I suppose you're angry at past generations for eradicating smallpox and polio. "Those evil hedonistic science bastards should have let them run rampant across the globe, damn them and their fear of disease," is what you'd say.
>>715530
you try to justify your fantasy, which fine.
And no I am not angry at anybody.
hedonists will do anything to be pleased and yes, even scientists admit, after post-positivism, that they work to ease the life of the humanity.
What I am saying is that choosing to live because you are scared of being in discomfort is pathetic, which makes you butthurt.
well I'm officially paranoid of ticks now
I'd like to try the permethrin repellent but I've got 2 cats and apparently it could kill them...
>>715589
You do seem angry friend, if you reread our past interactions the negativity is all you. At what point did you come to the incorrect assumption that I would favor wiping out any species?
Perhaps your butthurt comes from pulling such things out of your ass.
However as all your opinions seem to be coming from there, it's understandable.
Whilst we're on the subject of genocide though, you cannot argue that killing for the betterment of mankind is most definitely a good thing. Your willingness to roll over and die when confronted by a threat is what makes you a pathetic example of our species, as much as you'd like to pass that tag onto others.
>>710955
lel. hope that you only have lyme. enjoy your paralysis faggot. rip in peace.
http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/
>>715720
did op fuck your mother or something?
stop the hate, child.
>>715657
How dangerous they are depends on where you live. Here they only occasionally carry Borrelia/Lyme, no encephalitis or anything nasty. We're pretty lucky in that regard.
Probably had wel over a 100 ticks myself, but nothing ever came of it. Upside is that I notice them really soon by now, I currently catch 90% before they bite. Ironically, I tend to get most bites while wearing long clothes because it's harder to see them or feel them crawl across your skin.
>>715721
no hate. just making Opie aware of other diseases to keep track of.
Distribution line worker here. Have to crawl through brush all day to get to power poles. Have a 40 minute drive home after work. Terrible gas yesterday, farting rancid fumes the whole way. Arrive to home destination, get out of my car and see something moving on my butt seat, right in alignment to my butthole. Lol it's a tick. I fucking gassed the shit out of him the whole way home. Have a pic but I don't want to be doxed with gps
>>713050
if they evolved to be here that means they evolved to be able to survive, not that they have a role. most species have a role, probably. all? probably not
>>710955
Lel enjoy your borrelia
>>715872
The definitely fill a niche of some kind, whether we understand it or not. That is just your opinion, not based on any ecological findings. Obviously there is no goal driving natural selection but it is too powerful to leave behind species with no niche at all. Perhaps their role is to keep populations of large mammals from expanding beyond capacity? Regardless, it is a very bad idea to destroy a species simply because it doesn't benefit humans. Not that we will ever be able to kill all the ticks anyways.
>>715836
This is Seinfeld levels of funny incidents
>>715836
we dox all hot linemen.
>>710967
You and I had a very similar child hood.
>>715530
Neither small pox nor polio are eradicated. The WHO and the US CDC have samples of both, and if I remember correctly, there were a few confirmed cases of polio in the US recently.
>>714714
Awwww fuck I thought they were pretty uncommon in this corner of the country.
>>710955
the reason why we can't get rid of them is that at least 50% of them are on some animal at some time, meaning they move really erratically and can be dumped anywhere
any flying insect that'd eat them wouldn't be able to catch up to the ticks host because of its smallness, if the insect was too big it wouldn't want to eat ticks
im just spewing out stuff but i think it makes sense
>>712192
This has to be featured in a horror movie to defeat a blood sucking monster.
It's like defeating Jason by feeding him raw rice and then seltzer tablets and water.
>>712569
Also blouse your boots boots like a soldier.
>>710955
Eat lots of garlic. I tell you it makes you bloodsucker resistant. I suspect this fact inspires some vampire mythology.
>>710967
How do any Australian boys survive childhood?
>>717885
I am now itchy
>>713053
currently on day 4 of a 7 day doxycycline course after seeing a doc about a bullseye rash from a tick bite. fuck ticks so hard, I couldn't drink on st.paddys.
>>714714
Love that hike! Good to know there are ticks out here.
>>717944
... You know that's a myth, right? Docs used to tell patients not to drink on antibiotics because drinking leads to sex which leads to spreading the STD that the doc was treating then for with antibiotics in the first place.
>>717885
how can we even compete with a straya?
living in such an environment clearly must bring forth the apex of humanity
>>717944
OP here, I'm on day 6.
On the plus side, this is an amazing weight loss drug. It makes my bowel movements painful enough that I don't want to eat. I've lost like 4 pounds already.
>>718554
haven't had any side effects other than being a bit light sensitive
>>714043
i can fap to this
>>715836
kek'd
good job anon.
>>714259
The fire ants aren't even THAT bad in deep east Texas.
Fuckers are way more annoying in the DFW area.
>>710955
Got a nasty scar on my leftflank from a paralysis tick.
Little fuckers are barely a millimetre but damn do they hurt.
OP here, doctor called this morning to tell me I have an "acute infection" and need to see an infectious diseases specialist ASAP to discuss treatment.
FUCKING TICKS I HATE THEM. KILL THEM ALL. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM. I'LL BURN DOWN THE FORESTS IF IT COMES TO IT AND SLAY EVERY DEER, I DON'T CARE ANY MORE.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>live in tick hotspot in middle Sweden
Lyme disease is pretty much a rite of passage here, most outdoorsy people I know have had it.
>>721780
>say "Hi" to grandma when you reach the other side
Feels good to be a beachfag and do not have to worry with these fucker.
>>714259
Fire ants kill/eat ticks?
I didn't know that. I am now slightly less inclined to drive them to total extinction.
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>>721866
Nowhere is safe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omeMH3TlTFI
>>710955
qt must grow bigger first then you cut off
>>721813
Yeah, I don't get the paranoia of these yanks and aussies, if you get it you go to he doctor and get antibiotics and you're all set. Like, borrelia is a small price to pay for our stunning archipellagos. And it's better than TBE at least.
>>717988
I can tell you right now, it doesn't.
In the current day, the horrors of the Australian bush don't make people more resilient, they make people stay inside and turn into little bitches.
There aren't many of us 'tough outdoors' aussies around.
>>721937
Nah, I'm fine lad.
>>721989
Lyme doesn't always produce the bullseye rash so a lot of people don't know they have it until 5 years later when half their face gets paralyzed from Bell's Palsy and they see the doctor who tells them they have permanent brain damage from neuroborreliosis.
