Killed a tick dead!

So far so good. After purchasing but before wearing these, I was out in the garden and found a deer tick on my (white) shirt. So I thought I would do the test of the gaiters I had seen in videos: i put the tick on one of them. It was flat on the floor, not on my leg. The tick did not seem interested in or get stuck in the fibers, as claimed. However, it did eventually start turn upside down (and back right side up) a few times and look generally unhappy. As it looked like it was about dead I took it off (to see if it would revive) and it did not, it was dead dead. The whole process took about 4 minutes. If in this 4 minutes, one of those flips caused it to fall off my leg, that would be fine, I would not care if it was dead or not. But I am still not sure how long it would take to climb from bottom to top and whether it would be exposed to enough permethrin to cause it to fall off in that time, or to fall off after it climbed above the gaiter (and onto me!) So that is what I will try the next time I get one!

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