Hi Chris,
Are you sure they were ticks? The symptoms of your guests sound more
like Bird Mite (Ornithonyssus bursa) attacks. The fact that your
clothes line is overhung by a shrub which is a "bird magnet", and that
you and your wife do not appear to have had similar symptoms certainly
would make me think that O. bursa is the culprit with the mites being
scratched off by birds onto the sheets. There is a web page on O.
bursa at http://medent.usyd.edu.au/fact/birdmite.html which may
help in determining your culprit. Have a good look up in the roof
space and check that no birds have had access to the area over the
room where your guests slept as well, as this may be another source.
If it does turn out that the problem was ticks, sorry, but there is no
real answer but to either cut back all the vegetation so that they can
not fall ar jump or climb onto your washing or people or turn your
yard into a insecticide soaked wasteland.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 07/03/2009, at 10:33 PM, Chris Charles wrote:
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