Very informative Malcolm. Dee
-------Original Message------- From: Malcolm Stebbins Date: 04/04/08 00:59:21 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>TICK REPELLANT Double entendre, perhaps? Anyhow, to continue beating a dead mis-apprehension; The tick's mouth parts resemble - in micro-miniature - the business end of a porcupine quill with its backward-facing barbs, two half-quills side-by-side. The tick works these alternately like an electric carving knife into the host's skin, while squirting a little anaesthetic tick spit into the wound, along with whatever nasty germs, like Lyme disease, it may be harboring.
