All Spring, we’ve heard predictions that ticks and bugs would be more prominent this year as the winter was so mild along the East Coast.
Being dog owners, I’ve always been on the look out for ticks and would use a topical product on them approximately 9 months out of the year. Two years ago, I started applying this product on the dogs every month. I use to skip the winter months as fleas and ticks were not a problem for us in Maine during the winter. With our travels to mid-Atlantic States throughout the year, I decided to include treating the dogs during the winter months as a precaution.
Just in the past month I’ve personally seen the increase in ticks. Fortunately, those on the dog have not been alive. Twice I’ve found dead ticks on the hairs of one of my pets, and have removed 3 live ones from myself and 1 off my husband. Two were still crawling around when we found them, but we each had one attached. I’m optimistically hopeful that the ticks that did start to attach did not carry Lyme Disease and that we removed them before they could do damage to us.
And to add to this insect drama, we’ve returned to the woods on Northern New England and are constantly swatting at biting / stinging critters. Most evenings we’ll spray ourselves with a bug repellant, but there’s still the bothersome mosquito or noseeum that gets you. The other day, something stung me in the corner of my eyelid. Not fun, my lid was swollen for most of the day and my vision wasn't the greatest. Good thing we didn't travel that day.
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