TICK TUBES: WHY THEY WORK AND HOW TO MAKE THEM
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2020
- In this video, Dr. Osgood with GrassRoots Functional Medicine explains how tick tubes can be used to reduce the tick population at your home. He also walks you through the steps on how to make the tubes. Visit www.GrassRootsFunctionalMedicine.com for more information or to learn how to become a patient.
We need to do control burns like in the old days. Fire is a good thing.
Amen to that!! 🐎🐎🦅🪶🕊
After working outside in the woods, go take a full bubble bath for 20 minutes. All the ticks will disconnect and float away. Much better than the shower.
Others use sections of pvc pipe which protects the treated cotton from weather, which seems better.
PVC is more expensive and doesnt biodegrade. I dont want to hunt down plastic tubes throughout my yard every year!
How about hollow bamboo stalks?
@@AlkalineGamingHD do you think processed cardboard degrades and is better for the enviornment? You think leaving that processed cardboard tube all over the emplacement is better than reusing pvc? You can reuse pvc forever. How hard is it to just find the pvc tubes and reuse tbem??? I would use the small, thin, flourescent flags to mark where I put them.
@@jayyk31 Dont be ridiculously pedantic. Cardboard degrades way better than plastic does. PVC will become brittle and shatter with exposure to the elements.
Are you seriously trying to imply the unenviormental nature of something that is fundamentally compressed wood fibers -- one of the most renewable and plentiful materials on the planet?
Do you seriously believe hunting down florescent flags in a woods is a efficient and effective use of time?
If "penny smart dollar dumb" had a perfect example this wouldnt be it; its both penny dumb *and* dollar dumb.
@@jayyk31 Quite frankly, yes. I know he's using the white ones, but the paper in toilet paper tubes typically isn't highly processed and is about as close to wood pulp as paper gets, and the glues used to hold the toilet paper to the tube are typically gelatin/collagen based which also breaks down naturally. PVC, on the other hand, and in spite of the fact that many homes now use it for water pipes, leaches endocrine disrupting plasticizers and does degrade significantly over time. Between the two, I'd take the paper tubes every time.
This was helpful, thank you.
We just moved to Connecticut from Los Angeles a year ago, and are still learning, of course, how to avoid catching Lyme and other diseases from ticks.
I appreciate all the detail you go into for making these tick tubes.
is there a link ti where you got the permethrin?
so how did they work?
Good lookin' out.
Fire always makes it better
So if using 10% permethrin mix 1 part permethrin with 1/3 part water??
Does bifenthrin work?
What percentage does the Permethrin dilute to using the 4 to 1 ratio for the 37%? I read that 8% is ideal for tick tubes used in high population tick areas.
4:1 ratio water to permethrin should dilute to around 7-8%. The bottle claims 37% but its +/- 5% so our dilution wont make major difference if its not perfect.
You can spray your clothing( not your body) with permethrin which will repel and in some cases kill ticks. My experience is ticks will be problematic around 2 months in the spring, and are not much of a problem in other months.
not much in other months??????? Ticks are on me in both woods and fields until November!
💁🏽♂️ Tick season in Kentucky is January. 🙎🏽♂️ FROM JANUARY TO THE NEXT JANUARY ❗️❗️🤨😡 (Lymes is not fun. Just sayin 😡) 🐎🐎🦅🪶🕊
Did it work?
Research has shown that the number one food source for fire ants are ticks and chiggers. So ridding your property of fire ants aids in the survival of ticks. Go figure
Ridding your property of snakes aids in the survival of rodents. In both scenarios, choose which one you want to survive.
skip to 3:30
Is this safe for out side cats that play in the edge of the woods?
It stinks, and cats don't like the smell, but it's NOT safe to put the liquid on a cat or let it sleep in a pile of clothing that's been treated.
@@uhclem But cats do like the mice that are bedding in the cotton that has been saturated with the permethrin - Is it safe for cats that eat the mice?
@@theloniousm4337 I have no idea. My 3 cats are house cats and will only eat what I've served them. I have 30 acres of recreational land that I treat constantly and it's virtually tick free after a year, my cats never go there.
@@theloniousm4337no !!! Very bad for cats
I question the 7-10% dilution--most of the commercial permethrin spray products (e.g. for clothing and gear) are 0.5%. I have been diluting to a 0.5% target with my tick tubes (about 20:1 dilution for the 10% permethrin concentrate I use, 1 oz in a 20 oz. spray bottle).
Thanks for pointing that out. As a spray, it'll dry far faster than dipping in a solution, which can take a long time to dry.
I make tick tubes annually, and see no ticks after I do this. I read on clothing, the permethrin is good through 9 launderings - but it didn't say if that was due to the manufacturer's particular solution.
Yes but i think he said his bottle is 37% concentraded maby that ha ssomething to do wirh it.
Concentration has to be higher as it must pass from cotton to mouse to tick. 0.5 is more close to direct application methods. Shouldnt use the stuff on clothing if possible. Concentration of the bottle has nothing to do with the amount he ended up with... he was targeting that %...not sure what your point is @mike6998 it makes little sense.
We have 2 kids of tick one is so small a 10th the normal size. And thay are everywhere and they love me and it will take a month for a bite to heal.
Yea, like crazy.
Permethrin . . . not available in Canada. I'm out'a here.
What's your address, I'll mail you some in a case of water
Why did you go with such a high dilution percentage? I think under 1% is all you need.
Thanks for posting the video.
Thermacell states their tick tubes are 7.4 %
You can also spray the area around your house and lawn with Diatomaceous
earth, or even the creek bed area. Th Diatomite is of value as an
insecticide, because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.
The fine powder adsorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of the
exoskeletons of many species of insects; this layer acts as a barrier
that resists the loss of water vapor from the insect's body. Damaging
the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies, so that
they dehydrate, often fatally. Use a a cup DE mixed with two-three cups
of water. Mix in and a lawn feeder attached to the hose. Spray the grass
and all areas round the base of your hose. It will leave a white film
and will stick to the grass or the bottom of trees for weeks. Be careful
not to get it on the house unless its white. Spray the foundations
only. I usually do this two or three times a year. Be careful not to get
it in your lungs as it is like baby powder dust. You can also put some
drops of Tea Tree, Neem or Citronella. This is very safe for people and
pets.
are you advocating a broad spectrum pesticide? Are you trying to eradicate your entire yard of insects - given many are very essential in the food web I hope you are not doing this.
Does this affect the bees?
No. Bees don't feed on rodents.
Bumble bees sometimes build their nests in last year’s old mouse nests and old bird nests. Permethrin kills bees. Would there still be enough to kill the bees?
@@Alluvial. Probably yes. Permethrin lasts a long time. All man made chemicals introduced into the the environment have some negative effects on the ecosystem. Some are large, some are negligible. We always have to weigh the pros and cons. If there are more mouse nests because the mice are not killed off by the tics, will there be more Bumble Bee habitat? Nobody knows for sure.
Is this safe for outside cats?
Yes :)
Dont think theyll consume it, but contact is more harmful for cats than for other mammals.
Cats allowed outdoors will probably consume a mpouse or bird with the permethrim on their fur. That would be very harmful to the cats.
No. Permethrin is not safe for cats. If they are exposed, there is a possibility it could cause illness in a cat.
Permetherin is harmful to felines unfortunately. Keep the stuff away from your cats.
What about peoples cats or other wildlife like birds of prey, foxes, small snakes etc., that may eat a mouse with this permethrin on it , what happens to them.
It could be a sad outcome.
The mouse is not eating the cotton. He’s making a nest , just to give you a heads up your entire 18 wheeler truck of food delivered to your supermarket. Every day is sprayed with the same insecticide every time it cross the USA
Is it toxic to native bees?
Sure
No only foreign bees
How do I keep the dogs away from them
10 min video coukd have been wrapped up in 3 min...
Dont you check your dog every night? You said you check your kids why not the dog? We check our dog every time he comes in the door. Lol i dont want ticks on my baby.. i make japanese knontweeer tincture its great for lyme