10 Tips for Tick Control This Spring

Ten Tips for Effective Tick Control this Spring:

1. Avoid the areas of your yard most likely to be hosting ticks. Ticks don’t fare well in sunny well-manicured areas of your landscape, but they survive nicely where there is shade cover and taller vegetation particularly if there is leaf clutter or other plant debris on the ground.

Rodents

In our opinion rodents get enough credit for their role in spreading Lyme and other diseases. Ticks are not born with Lyme Disease. Ticks start their lives as nymphs and their first feeding is likely to be on a rodent such as a white…