Took me 43 years, but I got my first tick today!
Maybe walking around the 1/2 acre of pine straw, in shorts, weed-whacking the stray grass wasn't my best idea.
Now I get to wait and see if I have Lyme disease!
Because why would life ever get simpler?
How did you get it off?
first we tried to pull it out with tweezers. but it didn’t let go.
then we covered it with vaseline. but it didn’t let go.
then we put a bunch of rubbing alcohol on it. but it didn’t let go.
then we put a bunch of nail polish remover on it. but it didn’t let go.
then we tried grabbing it with hot tweezers. but it didn’t let go.
then we did the hot match head thing. then it let go.
according to the web, the only thing you’re supposed to do is the first.
Yikes. We used actual nail varnish on one of the cats once. It took a day or so but it eventually died and fell off.
Hot match head! Blimey.
took two matches to get it, too.
tenacious little fuckers!
We just ripped out all the Japanese barberry in front of our house. It attracts ticks apparently. No thx to tcks!
oh great… that stuff is planted all along two sides of our house
Berberis thunbergii. Even sounds evil.
Berberis Thunbergii…
he kills a bunch of people in GoT book 86, i think.
We have a tick remover that looks like this: http://www.clasohlson.com/medias/sys_master/8873004433438.jpg
Works a treat on the kids who attract ticks like magnets. Luckily, Lyme disease is rather rare here, though my brother-in-law had an untreated case for 10 years. A year later and he is still trying to recover from that.
ack! that picture! a tick on your neck!
fuck, i hate insects.
clever gadget though.