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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Aaaargh - Tick Removal
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 08:50:07 -0500


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.





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