Interesting Evening: I felt a bump on my leg, and it turned out to be one of those 2mm ticks. It was so small that the tweezers had trouble gripping it. I removed as much as I could...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I felt a bump on my leg, and it turned out to be one of those 2mm ticks. It was so small that the tweezers had trouble gripping it. I removed as much as I could, cleaned it, and put ichthammol on it. So far, so good. My son had a larger, standard tick on his shoulder.

A bear opened my garage door halfway and dragged out a garbage can. That door usually operates electrically, so there's no handle. It occasionally jams against something, so I've been opening it manually. The bear had to reach under the door and overcome any jamming he encountered.

A friend was having an art sale over the weekend, and she made a dozen and a half nice cardboard signs to put around the area. It was so windy last night that most of the signs blew away. In addition, a large branch fell onto the road, and she had to move it.

Now, it's calm and almost sunny. The calm before the storm?

Watch out for the tick pictured below.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

A classic Lyme Disease "Bull's Eye" on his shoulder. To remove ticks, especially the tiny deer ticks, I use a micro needle-nose pliers as I can dig the pliers tip almost under my skin to get the head out. One delightful fact about ticks, is that if you don't get below the head as you remove it, the tick will regurgitate its stomach contents as it's pulled out, leading to infection. Keep dousing your bite mark with an antibiotic cream as tick bites so easily become infected.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

fourlocks wrote:

A classic Lyme Disease "Bull's Eye" on his shoulder. To remove ticks, especially the tiny deer ticks, I use a micro needle-nose pliers as I can dig the pliers tip almost under my skin to get the head out. One delightful fact about ticks, is that if you don't get below the head as you remove it, the tick will regurgitate its stomach contents as it's pulled out, leading to infection. Keep dousing your bite mark with an antibiotic cream as tick bites so easily become infected.

Yeah, this is a nuisance. The initial redness is gone, and it's not sore.

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

I learned that simply lighting a match, blowing it out and quickly touching the attached tick, will cause it to back out. Always worked for me.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Tdearing wrote:

I learned that simply lighting a match, blowing it out and quickly touching the attached tick, will cause it to back out. Always worked for me.

Funny, but I've heard the exact opposite.

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

One day, my daughter came to me with a child she was babysitting. The little one had a small tick on her tummy. I tried all that I had heard about...heat, cooking oil, etc. but that little tick was stubborn, or something. I finally pulled it loose, hoping I'd got it all. It must have worked, because no adverse effects were reported. I hate ticks!

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Jerry, if it was a deer tick you should seriously consider the antibiotic series for Lyme disease. Given what I assume was a rapid discovery, there is little chance an infected tick would have passed it on to you, but it's best to be sure.

DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

I use 'NEEDLE NOSE' tweezers to remove any I get. It can get closer to the skin. Plus I use a magnifying eye loupe, "all the better to see you my little pretty". Detest those things...

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

jerryc41 wrote:

Funny, but I've heard the exact opposite.

I've actually done it many times.

xFltRN Loc: Richmond, VA

Actually, covering the tick with nail polish will cause them to release their bite and back out. There’s some component in the polish that they find very offensive.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I find ticks to be quite interesting (aside from being the spawn of hell sent to torment). The nymphs are born with six legs and they must feed and molt to develop to eight legs. Female ticks must feed a second time in order to reproduce whereas the males need only feed once.

scooter1 Loc: Yacolt, Wa.

DougS wrote:

I use 'NEEDLE NOSE' tweezers to remove any I get. It can get closer to the skin. Plus I use a magnifying eye loupe, "all the better to see you my little pretty". Detest those things...

Ben Gay will back them out. Cover the tick with it.