When your outdoor spaces are infested with ticks, spending time outside with your friends and your family can end in arms and legs covered in these pests. Due to their ability to carry dangerous diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease, effectively controlling these pests is an essential part of maintaining safe outdoor spaces. With our proven approach to tick control, we protect lawns all over Newtown, CT and the surrounding areas.
Tick Control Tips to Keep Your Yard Safer
While it takes a direct, dedicated approach to effectively eradicate current infestations and form a protective barrier around your yard, there are a few steps you can take on your own that make your lawn less attractive to ticks and help prevent new populations from developing over time. Here’s a quick look at a few of these steps and how they contribute to keeping tick numbers lower in the long run:
Keeping Your Yard Tidy. Tidy lawns aren’t only better looking—they’re also much more resistant to tick infestations. When fallen leaves and twigs accumulate in your yard, ticks will have plenty of places to hide and establish breeding grounds. Tidying up your outdoor spaces on a regular basis is an easy step you can take to drastically reduce the amount of hiding spots in your yard that ticks have to choose from.
Trimming Greenery. Along with debris, the greenery in your yard can also provide ticks with hiding spots and breeding grounds if they’re not effectively maintained. Trimming the shrubs, trees, bushes, and hedges in your lawn, especially ones that are located next to areas with high foot traffic, is an important step toward keeping ticks at bay.
Mowing Your Grass to the Correct Length. The grass in your yard isn’t typically at the top of the list of hiding places for ticks, but they can take shelter inside it if it’s allowed to grow too tall. Regularly mowing your grass not only keeps it healthier, but it also prevents ticks from hiding inside it.
Our Professional Tick Control in Newtown
By leaving your lawn’s tick control needs to our team at Lawn Doctor of Greater Oxford, you’ll get a comprehensive treatment plan designed around your yard’s unique composition. We tailor our treatments around your outdoor spaces to bring you protection you can depend on season after season.
We offer our proven tick control solutions our neighbors in these areas:
- Newtown
- Oxford
- Trumbull
- Cheshire
- Milford
- New Haven
- And throughout the surrounding communities
To learn more about our tick control in Newtown, contact us today!
