Considering how often dogs in my area were covered with ticks, I am surprised we never got one as teenagers, we were running or biking in the same place.
reply30+ years ago we would use ether to remove them, and I enjoyed burning them afterwards, it was so satisfying...
From experience, you might end up with 2nd degree burns and burn the bugger into a hot crispy pile of ash.
replyNow that you say it...
replyMakes me wonder of what would happen when you'd use the tips of two blank wires connected to a 1.5V battery?
ZAP!
Could be made into a small USB-gadget, to have it always available? Zaptastick!
I like this. Better: ZapStick!
replyZapsTick
replyI actually searched for things like that after posting.
replyIt's already a thing*, in many different variations. Some use piezo-electrics, advertised as 'battery free'. And countless other stuff, many with some variation of Zap(p) in their names.
*Sort of, didn't see small 'passive' ones powered by USB.
Edit: Thinking about it, one could abuse and modify one of the countless e-vapes for it? Small enough in most cases, and self-powered.