Ticks reach their peak activity in the spring and summer, but you can avoid them year-round. To shield your family from these parasites, you need a complete strategy. Use professional treatments, adopt smart outdoor habits, and stick to regular preventive measures.
You deserve to enjoy outdoor activities while keeping yourself, your loved ones, and your pets protected from tick-borne diseases.
How to Prevent Ticks
Ticks prefer to live near their hosts. If your yard attracts pests like rodents or birds, you’ll need to change your yard for them as well.
Here are some measures you can take to make your property less appealing to ticks:
- Remove any leaf, wood, or debris piles that ticks and their hosts can use to hide.
- Create a border between your yard and any wooded areas using pea gravel or wood chips.
- Keep grass short and well-maintained to reduce moisture and shade that ticks prefer.
- Clear tall grasses and brush around homes and at the edge of lawns.
- Eliminate tick nurseries by removing leaf litter, wood piles, and debris where humidity levels remain high
- Disrupt the host-tick cycle by addressing rodent populations.
- Install a 3-foot barrier of wood chips or gravel between lawns and wooded areas.
- Maintain grass at 3 inches or less.
- Create a 9-foot buffer zone of cleared vegetation around play areas and patios.
- Get professional help for any rodent infestations to eliminate tick hosts.
What is the best way to repel ticks?
Professional sprays and yard treatments form a protective barrier around your property. This helps keep ticks away.
These treatments focus on tick habitats like tall grass, woods, and shrubs. They use special solutions that kill ticks on contact and provide lasting protection. Treatments also disrupt the tick life cycle and lower their numbers to reduce the risk of tick bites for you, your family, and your pets.
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How to Avoid Tick Bites
Ticks prefer wooded areas with high grass and a lot of leaf litter. In particular, deer ticks like to live at ground level in shady areas that are high in moisture. To avoid ticks while camping, hiking, or enjoying the outdoors, know where they tend to hide.
When you go outside, stay away from tall grass, brush, or shrubs, as they tend to use this vegetation to latch on to animals walking by.
You should also inspect areas in your garden or yard that are next to the edges of woods and stone walls.
Preventing Tick Bites
Protecting your family from ticks doesn't have to be overwhelming. With the right combination of professional treatments, yard modifications, protective measures, and regular inspections, you can significantly reduce the risk of tick encounters and tick-borne diseases.
Pest control specialists will inspect your yard and create a treatment plan just for your tick problems.