Deer Tick Bites

[Raven]

after ten minutes it was just fine and still crawling around.
i hate those S.O.B.s. because they are so indestructable a pest.
Bugs wear their skeletons on the outside of their body rather than on the inside like mamals. So the secret to killing bugs is to somehow pierce their exoskeletons so that they dehydrate.
One way to do that (with a very benign product) is to use regular diatomaceous earth....that white powder used in swimming pool filters which is made up of tiny sea creatures actually, that died and floated to the bottom of the sea. Their vertabrae is made out of silicon spears that are not only good for filtering swimming pool algae and dirt but also great for puncturing insects.