Recent content by Explorer624

Solution found. Well after much research and great responses. Permethrin seems to be the answer. Every time I wiped over the tent with a white towel it would be covered in live ticks. I purchased a spray can designed for Fleas but apparently still good for Ticks too. It contained a 0.5%...

Thanks for the great response. In answer to a few responses. Yep I've definitely considered burning or throwing the tent away a few times. However it's new and a decent one so thought I'd try everything before going too exteme with these little visitors. The ticks from the image sent are the...

Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this. I think I might go for all of the above solutions. Freeze them. Bug spray them with the tent in a bin bag followed by a good fabsil session. I've just got to be careful handling the tent in the mean time. If I brush my hand along any part of the tent...

Thanks Limaed, Been keeping an eye on the kids. It's been therapeutic picking them off. Especially for the kids attacking me with tweezers. My concern at the moment aside of Lymes disease. Is that every time I use the tent I'm going to get attacked by these little critters. I've sorted my...

I went camping on a small island up near the Isle of Skye last week with my two girls. After getting back off the island I started noticing the Ticks all over my girls. They were so small they were barely recognisable as ticks. Both girls had at least 40-50 tiny ticks all over them. It took...