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loneranger

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If the ticks are wakening, and we get down to 26' like we are supposed to a couple nights, are the ticks that woke up dead meat? Does it set the others back?
 
Haven't seen this happen in years passed, although I am a tick magnent so it might just be my experiences.
 
I'm guessing the ticks would just crawl back under the leaf litter where they over wintered and just laugh at 26F nights.
 
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I'm guessing the ticks would just crawl back under the leaf litter where they over wintered and just laugh at 26F nights.

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I agree
 
I read somewhere that they go dormant for extended periods of time. Kinda like a hibernation thing. They can stay this way most of the winter I guess. I guess they can also do this in between hosts. Souns like they are tough little buggers!
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Ticks, ladybugs, grasshoppers and a handfull of other insects (actually a tick is an arachnid) can produce a glycol (antifreeze) substance in their body-fluid so they won't freeze.

So the ones that emerged from under the leaf-litter about a week ago and are probably covered with snow here in Polk County, are just waiting out the next warm-up.

Insects, ticks, and all "BUGS" are very adapatable little creatures. Some of the ways they survive is amazing. I do think roaches would be the only thing to survive a nuclear war...or however that saying goes.

I don't like ticks, but they don't freak me out either. However I'd be lying if I said that after I find one, that I didn't get the hee-bee-gee-bees. After you find one it seems like you can feel them crawling allover. SWEET, I can't wait.
 
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