Patent ID: 7726065

Claim:
A method of removing a pest that resides on a body surface of an animal or a human, the method comprising: adhering an adhesive layer located on a circular main body having a diameter of approximately 1 inch of a pest removal device to the pest and a surrounding body surface thereby releasably attaching the adhesive layer to both the pest and the surrounding body surface, such that the pest removal device, formed of a flexible, resilient polyvinyl chloride foam material having a caliper of approximately 20 to 25 mils conforms to the body surface and completely surrounds, contacts, and encloses the pest to suffocate the pest, maintaining the pest removal device in contact with the pest and the surrounding body surface for at least three minutes to cause the pest to release itself from the body surface; and peeling a release tab having a radius of approximately 0.125 inches and extending from the main body of the pest removal device off of the body surface with the pest secured to the adhesive layer of the pest removal device.