How to treat a small, tick-infested garden?

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  June 2022 edited June 2022

  Thanks for the help. I think it was all the blood that was confusing. I agree - not a tick.
  

  
  

  I asked around, and yes, some gardens near by have goat willows that they didn't know were goat willows.

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• Uff Posts: 3,199

  June 2022

  They don't look like ticks to me either. Ticks are small, round and flat until they have sucked blood when they become either grey or red. It's my belief that the grey ones are from sheep and the red ones from deer. 
  Wee Uff and indeed me too regularly get them and I don't find Wee Uffs until they are gorged with blood. The woods around here are heaving with the things. Worse in the Highlands though. 

  SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire

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• Topbird Posts: 8,355

  June 2022 edited June 2022

  Horrid things. Don't really understand why they make me feel dirty if one attaches to me. Don't feel the same way when I get bitten by a mosquito or other insect. Maybe it's because they stay there - hanging on - sucking blood. Yuck!

  Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  June 2022

  I've never knowingly had a tick bite. Long, long may it last. I was rolling around in the heather a few weeks ago. Probably foolish.
  

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• Uff Posts: 3,199

  June 2022

  Just taken this from the web to show tick before and after feeding
  
  
  

  SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire

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• Nollie Posts: 7,529

  June 2022

  Video and last photo not ticks either, I think they are safe!
  
  Know what you mean @Topbird, extracting the clinging beasties from yourself is indeed yucky. I’m not bothered at all by removing one from the dog.

  Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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