I'll try the alcohol thing next time I get a tick. I get several every
year.
Doubtful, but worth a try.
Here's why.
Back in the forestry days on an herbicide contract in Alabama, we'd come
out of the woods covered with ticks and scrape them off into a cup of the
herbicide. [VelPar]
The carrier was pure Methanol.
Those ticks would walk around under the Methanol for 20 minutes. Amazing
little buggers.
A tick can live for months without breathing.
Up to two years without eating.
I think maybe the Methanol sucked the water out of them.
Maybe Isopropyl is different somehow.
I doubt it'll smother em, but maybe it'll piss em off.
The "off" part is the good part. I know a hundred other ways to kill em.
[Like Kerosene Lamp racing ]
Ode
At 08:34 AM 8/29/2007 -0400, you wrote:
The all time easiest and best way to remove a tick is to soak a small
cotton ball with plain old rubbing alcohol and place it over the
tick. This smothers the tick and the tick lets go immediately. Then
just lift the tick off and drop it in a jar or container containing some
kind of oil, or something to kill the tick. This is a fast easy way to
clean an animal of ticks. Easy.
Thanks again.
Faith
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