On May 8, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Marie McHarry wrote: > Snopes says that soap won't work: > http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp > > I didn't check because it made sense to me that a detergent solution > would dehydrate the tick. > > <sigh> Yeah, I wondered. Anything that might suffocate and kill the little beasties means the head stays in.