tick can fan out many diseases including Lyme disease , Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and tularemia , grant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Because ticks can live on long weed and vegetation , mowing your lawn and keeping a hefty back yard is necessary .

check mark can spread many disease including Lyme disease , Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and tularemia , fit in to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Because ticks can live on farsighted grasses and vegetation , cut down your lawn and keeping a tidy back yard is necessary . Doing so creates an environment that is unfriendly to adult tick and tick larvae .

Function

Tick larvae use long gage and other tall vegetation as a means to get onto their hosts ' body . They mount to the top or near the top of long grasses and assume a affectedness anticipate a " questing spatial relation . " They hold onto the grass leaf blade with their back two pair of legs and keep the foreleg stretched out , quick to grab onto the body of any warm - full-blooded organic structure that walks by .

Prevention

Because tick larvae rely on tall plant such as grass blades to come into liaison with legion , you should mow your lawns to less than 3 inch tall . trimming Tree so that more sun saturate the lawn . Higher temperatures and low humidity are prejudicious to tick off adult and larvae . shave the bottom offshoot of bushes and shrubs so their foliage does not touch the ground . Cut back ground covering industrial plant like English ivy on field immediately touch homes and where children or pets romp .

Keeping Away Wild Animals

Modifying lawn and yards so they are less tick - friendly also makes them less inviting to rodents , which may have a bun in the oven tick . Remove down of stones , arm or leave where rodents can make nest . Move shuttlecock feeders a few feet away from the dwelling house because birds can take ticks . Keep garbage in cans with rigorous lid and , if necessary , shut up so that beast like raccoons can not get to the garbage . cervid are hosts to the ticks that bear Lyme disease . Install an electric fence if deer on a regular basis flow on the lawn .

Repellent

Always wear a tick repellant such as DEET before venture outside during ticking time of year . you could spray permethrin repellents on clothes but not pelt . Always check your clothes , nestling and PET after roaming about in areas with long grasses and skunk , such as ballpark , woodlands or a yard that has not been mowed in a long time . Tick bite do not injure , so a person may not be cognizant that he or she is carrying ticks .

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