Tick Talk to Be Bug-Free (183) - Daily MINI-CAST with Kim & Jill

Discover the secrets to dealing with pesky wood ticks and other creepy crawlies in this enlightening episode! Join hosts Kim and Jill as they delve into the unexpected uptick of tick encounters this year, sharing personal stories and effective tips for safe removal. Learn about natural remedies like coconut oil that encourage ticks to detach without leaving harmful remnants behind.

Key Takeaways:
- Use oils like coconut or essential oils to safely remove ticks.
- Essential oils can act as a natural repellent against bugs.
- Be mindful of what you apply on your skin—it's your largest organ!

Tune in for practical advice on staying bug-free while enjoying nature's beauty!

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Hello, lovely listeners, and good morning, Kim. Good morning, Jill. Good morning, everyone.

A little bit of a—what are we going to talk about today? And then the subject that came up was kind of like, ew. Yeah. Yeah. Bugs. Yep.

Can I start off with my husband woke up in the middle of the night. I hear him, like, jump up. And I look over at him. Spider. He's like, yes. And then there was... But we've also noticed an uptake of wood ticks already. Not little tiny guys, but actually like big. Yeah, the regular wood ticks, not the ticks. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

And I was kind of surprised at how many we have seen already this year, which last year—I mean, I live out in the... Out in the woods. And we didn't see a whole lot last year on us or around. And this year already, yeah, we're seeing them.

So just some FYI that kind of popped up with it is maybe people don't realize what they can do to take a tick off that might be starting to nibble at them or sucking their blood. Yeah, right. Again, you—but it's true. It happens and it's important.

And yep, it's like, oh, now we're going to a little education today.

So there's—if you haven't seen before—people have used, like, credit cards. Who—oh, okay—I guess this is actually from our higher perspectives talking to us.

Okay, so like a little credit card—you can kind of try and get underneath it with a credit card and just slowly pull it away. You don't want to actually rip a wood tick out of you because you can leave the head in there and that piece you can then get ill from.

But the one thing I absolutely love to do—and this is like, I don't know where I've seen it or heard it—but I use this every time—is I will saturate the wood tick with like an oil like coconut oil. Sometimes I'll use purification oil. Sometimes I use even olive oil, like a decent oil—not my regular canola oil.

And the cabinet—this is more like coconut oil, olive oil, or like I said, either essential oil—the back end is where they breathe out of. So when you suffocate them, they pull back so they naturally wiggle out.

And I actually tried this a few years ago. Looks amazing—and then they don't leave their stuff in you. They come right out with them.

So the chances of getting sick from a tick is very, very slim to none then.

See, the thing is when you know—that's amazing—when you know these little tricks how something so simple can then just go away—even if it's you.

Because it is.

Yep.

But if you just kind of rush in and act rashly or don't stop and say pause—and like—it's just the right thing to do because when you find a tick on you it's kind of freaky and the instinct is to get it out.

But when you pull at it like you said you don't necessarily get it out.

And so yeah sometimes it's just take that moment.

So there's always a message in our messages for us—even if it's educational.

Kim?

Yep.

You know I've never heard that before though so I just think that is wonderfully simple and useful—and I'm so glad to know because last week in the middle of the night I woke up with a wood tick crawling up my neck.

Yeah.

Ew.

Yep.

Yeah it's spring—it's buggy spring here in Minnesota.

It's buggy.

And like you said Kim—they know no boundaries—they just love humans.

Yeah—they love Earth—they love everything here—it's like we're in their territory—they're like yep what are you doing in my area—I had this first.

Yep—everything that's here is fair game—including us.

So...

Yep.

Oh my God.

Oh...

I did try this one time because I didn't quite believe wood ticks would back away so I actually—not one on me first—it was—I was playing with it on the counter.

So I put different types of like say essential oils in a circle and I put him like in the center of it and I was like see if he goes around it—that's what he...

He did not.

He stayed within the circle—and that was primarily purification oil which is like citronella.

Citronella is one of the main components of that—and so I had that all in a circle—and he never went—he never tried to go out—he would go close to it and then he backed away.

Yeah.

So there are natural sprays, essential oil sprays, roll-on rubs for preventing wood ticks—that's when I...

That was kind of like sounds weird but my confirmation that that actually might work.

Yeah—because he did not like it in that little area so if I'm going out in my woods I'm going to make sure I'm putting on some sort of repellent that maybe has like citronella or something like that in it too.

Yes.

And you know again that education piece—like remember our skin is our largest organ—that's why Kim was suggesting a good oil to put on your skin.

Yep.

And the same thing with whenever you can use an essential oil kind of based or some more natural kind of based repellent there are times—I understand—I have had moments when I've had to use the stronger...

Yep non...

And I use them because it was more important at that stage not to be getting bit by mosquitoes or ticks than because sometimes the essential oils just weren't strong enough.

Yeah—one of them was when I was in the Boundary Waters—like you could move your hand through the air and a thousand mosquitoes...

Like...

You know?

But yeah just remember what you're putting on your skin is important too because you're soaking it all into your body.

But yeah okay enough buggy—I know I'm starting to get all squirmy here so...

Enough buggy.

Thank you Kim. Thank you Jill. Thank you everyone.

All right until next time.