Hi Eric, >From my field experience, but considering that the ticks are on a snake, use >insecticide. The ticks will fall off the snake. Ticks on humans can be removed >by: 1) using tape, if they are too many, but the heads may stay inside the >host; 2) cover the ticks with abundant vaseline, and wait until the ticks move >out from the host. At that point, you can collect them safely; 3) pull the >ticks with pincers, but the heads might stay in the host.
You may try these methods, and find out which is more convenient for you. Regards, Helena Helena Puche, Ph. D. Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago Biological Sciences, 3464 SES 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607 312.413.0023 (Voice) 630.935.8081 (Cell.) Email: hpu...@uic.edu http://uic.edu/~hpuche --- On Thu, 2/11/10, Eric Enrique Flores De Gracia <sail...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Eric Enrique Flores De Gracia <sail...@gmail.com> > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Advice on how to take out ticks > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 3:36 PM > Dear all > > A friend of mine is intended to extract some ticks attached > to a snake´s > skin. > Somebody have an idea on how to collect them safetly > without harming the > snake neither the ticks? (he wants to preserve the ticks > for later > analysis). > > Any suggestion welcome, thanks, > > -- > Eric Flores De G. > > """""""NO EXCUSES...EXECUTE""""" >
