Tick infestations are a serious problem for your home’s outdoor spaces. These pests can carry and transmit a handful of dangerous diseases and can be tough to remove from your skin once they latch on. To fight ticks, it’s important to effectively address the areas where they typically hide. Below, we’ll highlight a few of these common hiding spaces, practical steps for eliminating them, and how our comprehensive tick control in Fort Myers, FL, can help you.
When ticks seek shelter, they look for dark, damp areas that provide plenty of cover from potential predators. These areas can include hedges, shrubs, patches of tall grass, and collections of general clutter like leaves or fallen tree branches. Recognizing these potential hiding spots can help you determine which steps to take when protecting your yard from ticks and the animals that typically bring them into your yard.
You can take a handful of steps to address tick hotspots and keep these pests at bay. Here are a few of them:
1. Mowing Tall Grass
Patches of tall grass are commonly used as hiding and breeding grounds by invasive ticks. Tall grass provides the shade and shelter that ticks look for in a hiding spot, and it also provides them with access to the small animals that often transit through patches of overgrown grass. Mowing tall grass is a quick and easy way to remove hiding spots for ticks in your yard, though it requires an ongoing effort.
2. Tidying Up Clutter
Another step you can take to eliminate tick hotspots is to tidy up the clutter in your yard. Ticks often take shelter in piles of leaves or fallen tree branches, and tidying them up can remove potential tick hotspots from your property and help you reduce tick activity over time.
3. Professional Tick Control Treatments
To effectively eliminate tick hotspots, our team utilizes some of the most advanced pest control treatments in the industry. With our advanced products and our comprehensive application process, we’ll quickly eliminate active populations of ticks and help you prevent future infestations while sparing you from the headaches of DIY tick control.
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