Dicas ou ideias para evitar apanhar carraças nas caminhadas

O melhor método para evitar as carraças é não sair de casa ou então só visitar caches urbanas, mesmo assim não é 100% garantido.
Ultimamente cada vez que visito caches no campo encontro sempre uma ou duas carraças na roupa ou "cravadas" no corpo.

O melhor método para evitar as carraças é não sair de casa ou então só visitar caches urbanas, mesmo assim não é 100% garantido.
Ultimamente cada vez que visito caches no campo encontro sempre uma ou duas carraças na roupa ou "cravadas" no corpo.

Interessante, este ano ainda não apanhei nada e ando frequentemente no campo...
(já nos anteriores, era uma "festa")

O melhor método para evitar as carraças é não sair de casa ou então só visitar caches urbanas, mesmo assim não é 100% garantido.
Ultimamente cada vez que visito caches no campo encontro sempre uma ou duas carraças na roupa ou "cravadas" no corpo.

Interessante, este ano ainda não apanhei nada e ando frequentemente no campo...
(já nos anteriores, era uma "festa")

Apanhei uma este ano. Mas valeu bem a pena ter saído de casa


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Vale sempre a pena sair de casa, principalmente para o campo, com ou sem carraças.

Vale sempre a pena sair de casa, principalmente para o campo, com ou sem carraças.

Ora, lá está

Hoje fui fazer o PT Faião às Broas e quando parei para almoçar no final da multi por caminhos Esquecidos GCQDE4 lá tinha uma big a passear na canela. A partir daqui andei sempre mais atento. Ao chegar a casa lá me despi e vi tudo, até dentro das cuecas , só encontrei uma pequena na meia. Tomei banho, vesti-me tshirt e calções e passado um pouco diz-me a Flor o que tens aí atrás da perna? Uma big bem cravada, puxei um pouco e a danada não queria largar o jantar alcóol para a colocar grogue e nada, não largava a carninha tenra Remédio santo vamos bátiza-la de azeite durante um bocado e voilá depois largou o bife.
Valeu o dia a fazer 12 caches com carraças pelo meio

(...) puxei um pouco e a danada não queria largar o jantar alcóol para a colocar grogue e nada, não largava a carninha tenra Remédio santo vamos bátiza-la de azeite durante um bocado e voilá depois largou o bife. (...)

É por isso que se chamam carraças, não "deslargam".

Fui fazer o PT "PR 7 - Nas Escarpas da Mizarela" neste feriado. Usei BioKill mas provavelmente por estar tempo mais húmido ou por akela zona não estar tão empestada não vimos nem uma. O Tour BioKill Betatestar ainda não foi a 100% convincente visto que mesmo quem não uso não apanhou nenhuma. Terei de fazer outro teste na próxima caminhada.

Ticks are tiny blood sucking arachnids that live in cool and moist areas such as the woods.
They feed on the blood of deers, birds, dogs and even humans.
These tiny parasites position themselves in tall grasses and shrubs, and often along trails, where they can easily grab on to the skin of their prey.
Once they are in place on human or animal skin, they cut a tiny hole on the skin's surface and attach their barbed snouts to suck blood.
These snouts keep them attached to the skin, until they have finished feeding.
Ticks are known to cause an inflammatory condition on humans known as Lyme disease characterized by the presence of skin lesions, overall fatigue, fever and chills.
Protect yourself against tick and Lyme disease by being prepared when going hiking in the woods or other shrubby areas.
Know how to properly repel ticks by applying the following tips:

1 - Put ample amounts of Deet insect repellent on your skin, and spray some Permethrin (Duranon) repellent on the outer side of your clothings, shoes/boots, knapsacks, sleeping bags and tents. These insect repellents do not only protect you against ticks, but from mosquitoes, mites and chiggers.

2 - Wear protective clothing when you explore the woods, parks or any given areas where there are lots of trees, bushes and tall grasses. Put on your long pants and secure their cuffs by inserting them in your long socks; as for your top, make it a long-sleeve shirt and tuck it in your pants, secured even more with a belt. It is advisable to wear clothings that are tightly woven so that ticks are not able to hang on to them easily. And as much as possible, wear light-colored clothings to make it easier to spot ticks when they cling on to you.

3 - Try using effective natural repellents. Squeeze an ample amount of sunscreen on your hand and mix it with 10 drops of eucalyptus oil before applying it on your skin. Ticks hate the smell of eucalyptus oil, which makes it a potent repellent against them. Another natural tick repellent that's effective is the Neem oil. Apply some on your skin before going hiking or gardening. Neem oil is a vegetable oil made from a mixture of compressed fruits and Neem seeds (an evergreen tree found in India), and is known to be a very potent insecticide used against ticks and other pests.

4 - Do a general body checkup after hiking or cutting bushes and grasses. With the help of a loved one or a friend, check for the presence of ticks all over your body -- from your ankles, knees, crotch, waistline, breast folds, armpits, neck and ears. Ticks love to settle on dark and moist areas, so give more emphasis to areas with skin folds. When you see one, don't panic. Just get a tweezer and gently pull it off your skin. Make sure that every part of it is taken off to avoid infection. Get rid of that captured tick for good by burning it.

5 - Make your home tick-free. To repel ticks away from your home, remove thick shrubs and small trees, piles of leaves and tall grasses. Constantly mow your lawn, as ticks find it too hot to stay around short grasses. Keep your patios, decks, and playground away from thick bushes or trees. Plants some flowers that deers hate (such as ferns, tiger lilies and morning glories) to repel them and the ticks they carry.

By Wirnani Garner, eHow Contributor.

Source: www.ehow.com

Tick bites can occasionally transmit disease, such as ehrlichiosis and Lyme disease.
To fight ticks successfully and prevent bites, alter your environment to discourage them from inhabiting the area.
If you have pets, treat them with a repellent specially formulated for ticks. Ticks do not survive long without a host; they are ectoparasites.
Preventing them from attaching to a host can help keep them out of your home.
In addition to modifying your environment, cover your exposed skin and use a tick repellent when you go outdoors.

Protect Your Environment:

1 - Remove firewood stacks, leaf piles, brush and other excess vegetation from your yard and the surrounding area to discourage ticks from inhabiting your yard.

2 - Trim your grass every week and remove the cut grass promptly. Ticks prefer areas with tall grass.

3 - Bathe any pets that go outside with a shampoo that contains an arcaricide pesticide. Only use a shampoo that is labeled for pets.

4 - Treat the tick-infested areas of your yard with an arcaricide labeled for use over a wide area of grass. Some arcaricides are only labeled for perimeter treatment. Spray your yard with pesticide once in the early spring. Cover any areas where woods or areas of thicker vegetation border your yard. Avoid spraying gardens.

Protect Your Clothing and Skin:

5 - Wear long pants when going outdoors and tuck the ends into your shoes, and wear a long-sleeved shirt. Select light-colored clothing so that you will see ticks on your clothes more readily.

6 - Spray the outside of your clothing with a permethrin-based repellent. Do not allow this pesticide to touch your skin.

7 - Spray a tick repellent that contains DEET on your exposed skin. Ensure that the repellent you select is safe for use on skin.

By Catherine Chase, eHow Contributor.

Source: www.ehow.com