Fall Is Still Flea & Tick Season

I've learned that Fall is still flea and tick season.  In fact, it can be prime season for fleas and ticks!  Although we use flea and tick preventative all year long as a precaution, I didn't really believe it was all that necessary.  How could there still be fleas and ticks when Summer is long gone and the nights are so chilly?  But something happened the other day that really drove it home for me.

Enjoying the lovely Fall foliage around the lake

It was a nice warm day out, cloudy but great walking weather.  We decided to take a walk around a nearby lake we had never been to before.

Stroll around a nearby lake we hadn't been to before

The lake was lovely but it was a very short walk.  As we walked back  to the parking lot I noticed there was a trail behind the lake we could get to.  We continued to explore and followed the trail to an old cemetery.  It was pretty neat so we walked around through the leaves and brush to check out the old gravestones.

We stumbled upon this hidden old cemetery along the trail

Later that day I heard my husband yell Sh@*t!  "What's wrong?!?" I asked .  He ushered me into the bathroom and showed me a tick that had been crawling up his leg!  He had never discovered a tick on his body in his entire life, despite living on Long Island for most of his life and years of mountain biking along woodsy Greenbelt trails.  He was utterly horrified! 

Apparently these woods were infested with ticks, even in Fall!

Far worse, however, was that the very next day he discovered another tick on his body!!  This tick had actually already attached itself to my husband's back and had to be pulled out.  Well, into the laundry went the sheets, towels, and bathrobes!  It had been a few weeks since the dogs had their flea & tick treatment so on went a dose of flea & tick medication! 

Icy posing on a tree stump along the woodsy trail

We've spent the last 2 days checking each other for ticks, we're so paranoid!  So far, no ticks on me yet but I'm still on alert.  So I guess Fall really is peak season for fleas and ticks, huh?!

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