Tick Tips

 The wood ticks are out already. Many people got wood ticks at the convention last weekend.  We had so many wood ticks we started a "Tick-r-tape."  If a wood tick was found we were to stick it to a foot long, 3 inch wide strip of cellophane tape suspended from a door frame near the silent auction.  That was gross.  And who is going to carry a wood tick to the silent auction area from where ever they were when they found it?   I only looked at the tick-r-tape once but to see a dozen wood ticks suspended is nothing else but gross.  I learned that many of the master naturalists use tape to dispose of wood ticks.  Generally they fold the tape on both sides of the wood tick.  Burning ticks with matches takes too long and flushing them down the toilet wastes water so they use tape.  Another thing I learned about ticks?  If you're a woman going camping or birding or somewhere where you might gets ticks, don't shave your legs before you go.  A tick crawling over leg hairs is more easily felt than a tick on a clean shaven leg.  I learn something new every day.