How To Keep Your Yard Free Of Ticks

Although ticks tend to prefer moist habitats such as the vegetation near water, the undergrowth in the woods or at the edge of the forest, and meadows with tall grass, unfortunately, they are also found in increasing numbers in our gardens. How Do Ticks Get Into My Yard? Ticks can crawl around, even very slowly, … Read more

Tick Dragging – Check Your Yard for Ticks

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by Christina Coruth Is your yard infested with ticks? The tick drag and the tick flag are just the tools you need to answer that question. With a few inexpensive items, you can make your own tick drag and tick flag in a snap. Using them is as easy as walking through your yard. When … Read more

Top 7 Tick Plants That Repel Ticks

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Ticks appear in ever-increasing numbers in cities and in our gardens. They spread into our close surroundings through host animals such as mice, rats, hedgehogs, birds, and even our pets. Being carriers of dangerous diseases that also can infect humans, tick colonization in our yard and garden needs to be controlled. Fortunately, there are a … Read more

How to Reduce Ticks In Your Yard

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Ticks are small, blood-sucking ectoparasites waiting for a suitable victim by questing in hiding places around your home, in your yard, out in parks and forests. They are virtually everywhere in nature throughout the world, wherever they find a suitable environment. As with most ectoparasites, ticks too can spread diseases to humans and pets. Eliminating … Read more