I will be going out Oct. 1st for squirrels. I am worried about fleas on the squirrels and because there is so many scavengers where I will be hunting I don't want to leave them and grab them later. Any way of keeping the fleas off me and my clothes/bag?
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I will be going out Oct. 1st for squirrels. I am worried about fleas on the squirrels and because there is so many scavengers wh
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Once the host expires, the parasites jump ship pretty quickly.
Let your squirrels lay about 5 minutes. There will be no fleas.
Deer lice vacate the carcass within seconds once bloodflow stops.
No repellant necessary!
If you approach a downed game animal and it's still has parasites such at ticks, lice or fleas, the animal is not dead!
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First Bubba adds a bit of wisdom. Give them a minute or two or 5 and then do what buck hunter said. Skin ‘em and put them on ice.
Last couple of years the !)@#&* ticks seem a whole lot hardier and to be living through the first frost. I was in a deer stand 2 years ago and it was 30 degrees and was a Disney land for deer ticks. Constantly brushing them off. I stayed in that area cause, the ticks had to be falling off of something. I reasoned that Deer had to be using it as a corridor and the ticks we falling off the deer. But still at 30 degrees and in the 20s at night, they shouldn’t be living that long. I was amazed they were alive and moving.
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