When ticks are crawling all over your yard, spending time outside can easily end with these pests latched onto your ankles. Because ticks are capable of carrying harmful diseases like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, keeping their populations under control is a crucial part of maintaining outdoor spaces that your friends, family, and pets can safely enjoy. With our proven approach to tick control, we bring safer lawns to our neighbors spanning the entire Newport, DE area.
Tick Control Tips to Keep Your Yard Safer
It takes a direct approach to effectively manage active tick infestations and place an effective barrier between future infestations and your outdoor spaces. However, there are a handful of different steps you can take on your own that can make your yard less attractive to neighborhood ticks, keeping their numbers lower over time. Here’s a quick look at some of these steps:
Keeping Your Yard Tidy. Tidy lawns aren’t only better looking, but they’re also more resistant to tick infestations. When debris like leaf litter and stray branches accumulate in your outdoor areas, it can give ticks an assortment of hiding places to choose from. Regularly tidying up your yard can eliminate these hiding places and discourage tick infestations through the seasons.
Trimming Greenery. In addition to branches and leaf litter, the greenery that decorates your outdoor spaces can also attract and shelter ticks if it’s not regularly trimmed. Trimming the hedges, trees, bushes, shrubs, and other greenery in your yard helps to keep tick populations at bay. This step is especially important if you have trees or bushes near your home’s entryways.
Mowing Your Grass to the Correct Length. While grass generally isn’t at the top of the list of tick hiding places, it can hide populations of them if it’s left unattended. Keeping up with mowing not only keeps your grass healthier, but it also prevents invasive ticks from taking up residence inside it.
Our Professional Tick Control in Newport
By choosing the comprehensive tick control we offer at Lawn Doctor of Wilmington, you’ll get protection you can trust. We combine our advanced pest control products with our custom-tailored applications to quickly address active tick infestations and prevent new ones from developing in the future.
We offer professional tick control solutions to our neighbors in these areas:
- Newport
- Wilmington
- Hockessin
- Chadds Ford
- Kennett Square
- Elsmere
- And throughout the surrounding communities
To get started with our tick control in Newport, contact us today!
