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Has anyone tried making a tick trap? I read once that you could build something simple with dry ice on a piece of cardboard surrounding by double sided tape. The ticks are attracted to the CO2 and get stuck on the tape.

I wonder why there are no simple commercial products like that?

Other ideas I've had is a company that runs dogs or horses around your property for a few days hopefully to pick up all the ticks. They obviously then carefully remove the ticks from the animals.



Along those lines, someone's making a tick-killing robot: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-10/local/40575624...


I read that ticks detect the ground shaking, and hope that means an animal will walk by soon, and they climb onto a stalk of grass/branch and put their legs out for a free ride.

I would like to know if the CO2 trick is true.




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