Make your yard less inviting to ticks
There are many hot spots in your yard where we will specifically target, but there are probably some areas where you can take steps to reduce the tick population right away, and also enhance the effectiveness of your tick control treatments.
Areas where ticks are most commonly found in your yard
Tall grass
Ticks enjoy tall grasses and vegetation they can attach themselves to while waiting for something to walk by. Keeping your grass mowed will create a less desirable environment for ticks.
Wood piles
Moist wooded areas are inviting for ticks. Keeping piles of wood or logs, sticks or brush creates an area that ticks like to be in. Look at this picture, perfect example of a tick haven!
Leaf piles, leaf litter
Just like wood or brush piles, mounds of leaves also provide an excellent environment for ticks. Getting rid of leaves will help to control the tick population in your yard.
Stone walls
Areas that provide shade and moisture are highly desirable for ticks. We’ll target any stone walls and retaining walls on your property.
Shady areas
Ticks don’t do well in heat and direct sunlight. Around decks, sheds, under trees and other shaded areas provide a safe environment for ticks to thrive.
Gardens
Gardens can not only attract deer and other wildlife, but also provide cover and moisture. Removing garden debris will discourage ticks and also rodents that may be carrying ticks.
Steps that will make an impact on tick population
Keep brush and weeds cleared from property edges
Regularly clear brush, weeds, and overgrowth along fences, stone walls, or wooded boundaries. These areas are tick hotspots and maintaining them reduces tick migration into your yard.
Create a tick barrier with mulch or gravel
Place a 3-foot-wide strip of wood chips, mulch or gravel between your lawn and wooded areas, tall grasses or brush. This dry, inhospitable barrier helps prevent ticks from crossing into your yard.
Keeping your grass mowed
Ticks like tall grass, we don’t even directly spray mowed areas of your lawn since it is not necessary.
Move play areas to open spaces
Position swing sets and play areas away from the treeline in a more sunny area. Ticks prefer shaded, forested borders so positioning these strategically can minimize exposure to ticks.
Facts about ticks
Ticks and Lyme Disease
Ticks will be hatching out all over your property this Spring. There are many ticks that are common around your lawn, landscape and woods. There is the wood tick, the dog tick, and the worst one, the deer tick, for it is the deer tick that carries Lyme Disease.
Lyme Disease in humans and pets have been rising higher and higher since the 1980’s. When a human contracts Lyme Disease it is very difficult and very expensive to treat.
Deer ticks are hard to see. They can be the size of a pin head. Once bitten, a red bulls-eye will appear. In several weeks the person or pet become very ill, and will stay that way unless the proper medical treatments are performed.
Deer ticks love to grow in very high grass, overgrown landscapes, stone walls, wood piles and in landscape mulch. They love damp and shady areas. Full sunlight will kill deer ticks in the Larvae and Nymph stage.
How can Eco Turf & Tick Control maintain a tick free yard without using any toxic pesticides?
Our tick control program uses several different 100% natural products such as cedarwood oil which are so safe they are EPA exempt.
Types of ticks that we have in New York
Blacklegged ticks (deer ticks)
One of the 3 most common ticks in New York state. These are the ones that carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease and are small, about the size of a poppy seed to a sesame seed depending on sex and stage in life cycle.
American dog ticks
Nymphs and adults can transmit Tularemia and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. These ticks can survive for up to 2 years without a host.
Lone star ticks
These ticks can cause alpha-gal syndrome and other reactions in humans. Just like the deer ticks, this tick’s bite also leaves a bullseye shaped rash.
Tick Lifecycle
