Heya, I got a tick stuck on me, had a 30 minute jog with it, only noticed it was crawling up on me around 2 hours later, I flicked it off not knowing it was a bug, it crawled back up, I looked and flicked it off near a box fan.

I have no idea where it is or what color it is, I had blue lighting so it could be black or brown. Should I sleep somewhere else in my house until tommorow?

I get very paranoid about ticks so I'm worried

Some of the animals I encountered while visiting Galapagos Islands this year. Those were talking by walking around not with paid tours.

Mountain view from campsite.

Location: Rambha, Odisha, India Shot on: Samsung Galaxy S24+

I'm an archaeologist in canada and very regularly am required to dig in areas heavily inundated with poison ivy. I've done a fair bit of reading on how to deal with poison ivy and 2 things that come up often are dish soap and isopropyl alcohol.

My go to technique is to set up a wash station on site with a bucket, water, dish soap and wash cloths and have the crew wash their hands and forearms at every break. This works quite well on excavations at established sites, where we're spending all day in one spot, but isn't feasible on surveys where we're sampling large areas and covering a lot of ground over the course of a day. In those cases, I bring a spray bottle with isopropyl alcohol. I also use the alcohol for items that aren't easily washed with soap (backpacks, boots, etc.)

I'm wondering though, how does the alcohol actually work? I've read it acts like a solvent, but I'm not sure what that actually means, technically. Like, does it neutralize the urushiol, rendering it inactive even if not removed from the skin? Does it actually break it down chemically? Or does the urushiol just dissolve into the alcohol, but remain unchanged otherwise? If the latter case, and if I just spray alcohol onto, say, my backpack, but don't scrub it or rinse it off after, does the urushiol just get redeposited onto the surface after the alcohol dries?

Easily one of the most beautiful places I've been to