I enjoyed the line in one of Carol Lea Benjamin's books, something to
the effect that you could never kill a tick too many ways. I got a real
hoot out of that one! I could just see someone squashing it, burning it,
shooting it, chopping it up, then flushing it down the toilet.
Pat Long (& Luther)
>A local Entomologist I know informed me that flushing ticks down the
drain >does
>not actually kill them. The little bu**ers live to suck another day.
She >says
>that a sure way to eliminate them permanently is to plop them in a vial
of
>alcohol where they soon succumb. I w
A local Entomologist I know informed me that flushing ticks down the drain does
not actually kill them. The little bu**ers live to suck another day. She says
that a sure way to eliminate them permanently is to plop them in a vial of
alcohol where they soon succumb. I would suggest using
