<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Interesting Alan, <font>we have loads of ticks her<font>e but, thankfully the incidence of Lyme Disease is nearly nil. <font>That said, it is too annoying to find these little critters crawling up a leg or attached to a body part, usually discovered in the<font> midd<font>le of the night. So I truly detest them. I had no idea they have an affinity for fabric but at the same time assumed <font>I brought them in the house on a piece of clothing, probably, I thought, on my shoes or socks, sort of accident<font>ally. Now I see a very good reason to<font> wash all clothing after we've been out<font>side during the height of tick season. Still am not intere<font>sted <font>in using a dry<font>er however. I am almost positive there are no tick<font>s in my w<font>ash, even <font>though it's done entirely on a cold cycle.<br>
<br><font>And I'll be doubly careful to make sure nothing I han<font>g up touches the ground. Thanks for the info.<br><br><font>Sacie</font><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Alan Abrams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@abramsdesignbuild.com" target="_blank">alan@abramsdesignbuild.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><div><Can you clarify for me how Lyme Disease and line drying are connected?></div><div><br></div></div><div>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. </div>
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