Remove Rodent Habitats to Prevent Ticks From Entering Your Yard
When you’re planting your garden and giving it a great look in the summer, look around for piles of bushes and other places for rodents to hide. By removing them, you actually make it more difficult for mites to enter you and your family.
Although the Lyme disease-carrying arachnid is referred to as a “deer mite,” it also feeds on other furry creatures, including mice and chipmunks. After feeding a person or animal, the tick buries itself in fallen leaves, where it hides at the next stage of its life cycle. The tick then crawls to a place that looks like a tall stalk of grass, where it waits for the next prey to touch it.
Removing leaf litter and tall grass will make it harder for the mite to reach you. To make life harder for ticks, remove piles of brushes and other places where mice like to live. Pesticides can help, too, but proper landscaping means you don’t have many places where you might need to apply them. Follow the link below to learn how to make your yard less mite-friendly.
The problem with ticks | National Wildlife Fund
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