Not sure why Typepad have closed comments on the above story as I only published it a couple of days ago, and on my system it says comments are ‘open’. Will take it up with them.
Alison has kindly written to say that a good way of removing a lot of ticks is Listerine with alcohol (amber colour) or wrap carefully in ta;e and carefully remove – the lack of oxygen kills them.
Thanks for that, Alison.
We used to get ticks on our horses in France, and got rid of them with a dab of white spirit on cotton wool. Worked well and didn’t affect the horses.