[Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Bob Waldrop]

  I have air dried clothes outside in Oklahoma for years. We have ticks 
and I have never found a tick on my laundry.

Bob Waldrop, OKC
On 7/28/2012 10:01 AM, Alan Abrams wrote:
> <Can you clarify for me how Lyme Disease and line drying are connected?>
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> ticks have an affinity for fabric.  my brother, a parasitologist, used 
> to work on tick surveys:  an area is staked out, and the ground is 
> methodically dragged with piece of a bedsheet of a specified size and 
> weave.  The ticks cling to the fabric, which is unfurled, allowing the 
> surveyor to classify and tally the catch.
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> so it's easy to imagine one of these critters hitching a ride on the 
> edge of a sheet or garment that brushes the lawn, as it is retrieved 
> from the laundry basket as it is hung.
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> (yikes!--is this an argument for ironing as a method of de-ticking 
> line hung laundry?)
>
> -a
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