Do you have experience with ticks? You can’t stomp them. They’re too small and flat with hard shells and don’t squish. They have to be cut in half, burned, or drowned. Some people can kill them with their fingernails, but mine are too short.

I found two of them on my body later that night and killed them with tweezers. Or fire, I don’t remember which.

Also, deer ticks carry Lyme disease, not lone star ticks.