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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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.