Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

[NorthernHawkeye]

I just returned from a run through the forest.

Wife inspected me head to toe and found 4 ticks.

About a dozen so far this year.

Stay safe people.

Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

Sadly predictions have 2023 looking like another brutal year for ticks in Iowa.

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[gamedayron01]

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[gamedayron01]

OP has Lyme Disease.

 

[Kelsers]

I just returned from a run through the forest.

Wife inspected me head to toe and found 4 ticks.

About a dozen so far this year.

Stay safe people.

Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

Sadly predictions have 2023 looking like another brutal year for ticks in Iowa.

us1049quadcities.com

Run through a forest? 🤣

 

[gamedayron01]

Run through a forest? 🤣

He’s a boob.

 

[Joes Place]

Good luck with that Alpha-Gal allergy, bro!!!!

Alpha-gal syndrome - Symptoms, diagnosis & treatment - LymeDisease.org

Certain types of tick bites can trigger alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) a life-threatening allergy to red meat and meat-related products.

www.lymedisease.org

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Ticks are nasty

 

[lucas80]

I just returned from a run through the forest.

Wife inspected me head to toe and found 4 ticks.

About a dozen so far this year.

Stay safe people.

Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

Sadly predictions have 2023 looking like another brutal year for ticks in Iowa.

us1049quadcities.com

Which forest did you run through? Shimek or the Yellow? We only have 4-5 here in Iowa, right?
Look, just say you were hiding in some weeds stalking a former female co-worker and got some ticks.

 

[gamedayron01]

Which forest did you run through? Shimek or the Yellow? We only have 4-5 here in Iowa, right?
Look, just say you were hiding in some weeds stalking a former female co-worker and got some ticks.

He has a rapist wit.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

We spent so much time in the timber as kids without bug spray and ticks were never a problem.

 

[billanole]

Good luck with that Alpha-Gal allergy, bro!!!!

I just gotta say, Alpha-Gal sucks. It put me into anyphylactic shock in January.
No more mammalian meat products. Goodbye, bacon.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

While the rumors of my demise will be greatly exaggerated, the prescribed amoxicillin will no doubt pull me through.

I should start using some spray though.

 

[Joes Place]

We spent so much time in the timber as kids without bug spray and ticks were never a problem.

Maybe back before deer populations across the midwest were so endemic?

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Maybe back before deer populations across the midwest were so endemic?

Maybe. There is a lot more now than I ever remember as a kid…

 

[Joes Place]

I just gotta say, Alpha-Gal sucks. It put me into antiphlactic shock in January.
No more mammalian meat products. Goodbye, bacon.

Not even the white meats?

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

I just returned from a run through the forest.

Wife inspected me head to toe and found 4 ticks.

About a dozen so far this year.

Stay safe people.

Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

Sadly predictions have 2023 looking like another brutal year for ticks in Iowa.

us1049quadcities.com

Were they deer ticks?

 

[Joes Place]

I just gotta say, Alpha-Gal sucks. It put me into antiphlactic shock in January.
No more mammalian meat products. Goodbye, bacon.

Alpha-Gal: Rothschild Global Conspiracy to make us all vegetarians.

 

[Mister Hawkeyes]

I just returned from a run through the forest.

Wife inspected me head to toe and found 4 ticks.

About a dozen so far this year.

Stay safe people.

Another Brutal Tick Season Could Hit Iowa This Year

Sadly predictions have 2023 looking like another brutal year for ticks in Iowa.

us1049quadcities.com

I have to avoid the woods now when I'm out walking with the pup because of the ticks. Anytime we'd take the trails through the woods, I would have to pick them off her...and that was in April. All it took was finding one in my bed and that was that. I washed my blankets 4 times in 3 days. The paranoia was real.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Which forest did you run through? Shimek or the Yellow? We only have 4-5 here in Iowa, right?

Surprised you didn't ask for the exact unit.

 

[An Iowa fan]

Morgan Creek Park is supposedly full of ticks.

 

[billanole]

Not even the white meats?

Poultry and seafood are OK. Xanthan gum, mammal by products… naw.
Hives, severe itching, dizziness,… some are able to resume eating these products in 3-4 years if not reinfected.
Lone star tick bite was likely vector. They are very prevalent in areas I routinely hike and camp, but I don’t remember a bite in recent ears.
How did you guess Alpha-gal?

 

[JMNSHO]

Ticks and wild parsnip are the real reason to wear waders when trout fishing in the Midwest.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Which forest did you run through? Shimek or the Yellow? We only have 4-5 here in Iowa, right?
Look, just say you were hiding in some weeds stalking a former female co-worker and got some ticks.

I could drop you in a 40 acre timber over by Marengo and you wouldn't know whether or not you were in a state forest. ( which is not what the OP said BTW ) It can be yours with a new house, old cabin, pond and pole building for 550,000...

 

[Joes Place]

How did you guess Alpha-gal?

Listen to lots of RadioLab and Sci-Fri podcasts.

I think RadioLab did a show on it a while back. Some of the most informative science 'casts out there. Plus, when I heard that I was like "Oh, yeah, my friend Sarah is allergic to meat and grew up in northern Wisc - I'll bet she got that as a kid". She never got tested, just quit eating meat altogether.

 

[Joes Place]

Poultry and seafood are OK. Xanthan gum, mammal by products… naw.
Hives, severe itching, dizziness,… some are able to resume eating these products in 3-4 years if not reinfected.
Lone star tick bite was likely vector. They are very prevalent in areas I routinely hike and camp, but I don’t remember a bite in recent ears.
How did you guess Alpha-gal?

Alpha Gal

Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops.

radiolab.org

 

[lucas80]

I could drop you in a 40 acre timber over by Marengo and you wouldn't know whether or not you were in a state forest. ( which is not what the OP said BTW ) It can be yours with a new house, old cabin, pond and pole building for 550,000...

Keep pushing that house your nephew is trying to unload on some other website.
Marengo is a toxic waste dump.

 

[lucas80]

Ticks and wild parsnip are the real reason to wear waders when trout fishing in the Midwest.

I saw some wild parsnip while hiking in SE Minnesota today.
CSB

 

[billanole]

Alpha-gal syndrome - Symptoms, diagnosis & treatment - LymeDisease.org

Certain types of tick bites can trigger alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) a life-threatening allergy to red meat and meat-related products.

www.lymedisease.org

 

[billanole]

Alpha Gal

Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops.

radiolab.org

Thanks.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Marengo is a toxic waste dump.

So was Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric on Burlington Street but we built an apartment right on top of it, with Iowa City's approval. Don't act like the Athens of the Midwest is any better...

 

[The Tradition]

Ha-ha....

EVERY season is "tick season" in Florida!

Iowans are sooooo soft.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Keep pushing that house your nephew is trying to unload on some other website.
Marengo is a toxic waste dump.

Never mind @lucas80 . You could have owned a state like forest a half an hour from the Athens of the Midwest but you hesitated and after 20 showings in 3 days it sold for 600K. Last time I drop inside info on you...