HawkOBX Loc: eastern Pennsylvania

Permethrin, spray on your clothes(not on your skin). One application good for several weeks and several washings, have watch ticks crawl on treated clothing after exposure to Permethrin fall off dead in 15 seconds after exposure. This a vegetable based chemical and not a classical organochlorine or organophosphate pesticide.

wd4ity Loc: Middle Georgia, Forsyth

Adams puppy spray used to have Dursban as the active ingredient. You could smell it when you put it on your dog. The dog died before he was three years old but he never had any ticks on him.

Odino Loc: Rye NH

Permethrin spray on clothing will kill ticks. It must be applied to the material and allowed to dry completely before wearing the clothes. Used in conjunction with a repellent on your open areas works for me. We have so many ticks in NH that they are killing off the young moose and making Lyme disease a serious problem. The only good tick is a dead tick!

wd4ity Loc: Middle Georgia, Forsyth

Ticks were not a problem when I was a young boy here in Georgia. You could walk through the woods all day and not pick up a single tick. But back then we didn't have very many deer. The state game and fish commission started importing Virginia deer into Georgia to reestablish the herd. Evidently they failed to take the precaution of killing the parasites that were on the deer when they brought them in because we now have more ticks than deer. You can walk in the woods today and not see a single deer but you'll be totally infested with ticks unless you take precautions. Permanome spray works well if you can find the stuff. For some reason it has vanished from store shelves. Some people say they drink small amounts of vinegar each day for a couple of days before going into the woods and this keeps the ticks from biting you even if they get on you. Wonder if that practice works or would it just make you smell like a pickle?

bugeye Loc: North of the gnat line in Georgia

^^^^^ this ^^^^^
Deet takes care of skeeters, flies, chiggers, ticks, and any other bugs I guess.
To keep it off your hands and therefore off your mono and bait, apply while wearing disposable rubber gloves.
They are cheap at Walmart.

Pickle Loc: Duplin co, NC

The bugs can't stand peppermint, that's why it works so good.