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Vaseline also works like olive oil which works similar to a cigarette, makes the little bugger want to leave voluntarily.

I've heard that pulling them out can be bad. When the head breaks off inside you, you can end up with infection.

If you want to spray something around the house, spray "Demon". My mother gets it in Pensacola, and gave me some. I can spray it around the outside of the house and under behind cabinets and stuff in the house, and it controls bugs in the house for a whole year. I suspect that it would do a number on ticks as much as it does roaches and everything else.