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Dewey Pest and Wildlife offers a Tick Management Program. Our options is a highly effective means of ridding your yard of ticks thus decreasing the risk of getting bit by a tick and coming in contact with tick borne illness such as Lyme disease.
Our comprehensive program involves 2 applications approximately a month apart in the spring/early summer months. Our technicians will treat the yards transitional areas (where turf meets the woods, tall grass or brush) to combat the larval and nymph ticks. We recommend an additional fall follow up treatment to reduce the adult ticks in the surrounding brush.
Deer Tick Biology - The deer tick is a three-host tick: that is, it feeds on three different animals during its life. The immature ticks, known as larvae and nymphs, each feed on small mammal or bird. As it developes into an immature tick it will move on to feed on field mice and chipmunks. Adult ticks feed upon a larger mamal , usually white-tailed deer, mate and deposite eggs to complete their life cycle. Any of these stages of ticks can feed on people, as well.
Limiting the Deer Tick - The typical deer tick habitat is wooded and shady, a moist environment. Ticks may frequent the edge between yard and woods, in the leaf litter. The abundance of deer ticks in a yard can be decreased by modifying the area to make it less attractive for ticks and by discouraging mice and deer, through a variety of techniques.
