Ticks are out in Franconia (March 28, '10)

[Waumbek]

After a brushy trek yesterday at around 2000', I found the first tick of this season walking down my dog's back this morning. It was a big "dog" tick. Given the unseasonably warm temps this spring, I'd planned to start Frontline Plus early for the dogs, April 1, but just moved that back to 10 minutes ago and will start my own tick protocol now as well. Last year was a low tick year here, probably because of the cold April; this one may make up for it.

 

[bryan]

saw my first deer tick of the year down here in rochester, nh the other day. thankfully this one was not attached to me. picked off more than i like to think about last year.

bryan

 

[hammerhead]

I'm southern VT and I found one crawling on me last week while in the woods, and found 5 on our dog!!!!!

 

[audrey]

Leo picked up a dog tick on Middle Mt in North Conway on Friday. We found it today (need to start doing the whole body check now). Frontline Plus was applied 2 weeks ago, hmmm...