Tick reaction. Picture!

^^^Now that looks better to me. Thanks Greg.

maybe DEET is required for complete protection against other bugs, like mosquitoes

I have noticed that DEET does not repel these obnoxious hordes of flies I experience on Mt Hood, for example, in June

kat, just curious, have you tried the tick twister type tool?

Hey Jimmy,

I have used one successfully a couple of times ( we get them at my work…where we also have a yearly training on all things tick).  When it’s a tiny deer tick and everything is a mess around it, it has not worked for me..

Thanks Kat, I will take that advise. Always good to have a backup plan for the stubborn situation. Possibly filing my tweezers from my little Swiss army knife to a fine working point would offer an already carried alternate method. Tweezers work just fine if a steady constant pressure is used below the blood filled body. If  that fails, I agree it gets down to a little DIY surgery :) Been there…

Lots of micro offset tweezers out there for those pesky deer ticks

https://www.google.com/search?q=ergo+tweezers&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS721US721&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS5_fr4_nTAhVLwVQKHaldAbYQ_AUICygC&biw=1325&bih=612

https://www.google.com/search?q=offset+micro+tweezers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv6aWD4fnTAhXLxFQKHZooC5cQ_AUIBygC&biw=1325&bih=612#imgrc=CR0Xcp7OueA4QM: