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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Wasn't this one of the extraction methods which causes the tick to spasm and
potentially force some of its infected gut contents into host's skin?  I 
wonder
about the pyrethrum method too.  

I like to use an insect repellant rated for ticks, from the time the snow 
melts down
to the last few shaded snow piles, in early spring, until snow falls in 
autumn. 
Especially during the months when the nymphal stages of deer-tick are active 
(May,
June, & July, last thing I read).  These can look like a fleck of dirt in a 
wrinkle
of your skin: if you find yourself saying "Damn! I took a shower!"  grab a
hand-lens, to see if the fleck of dirt has legs.


--- Bruce Hansen <wrote:
> Use a cigarette. Place the hot end on the tick and it will back out.




                
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