Tick Control
We offer both Organic and Traditional Tick Control Programs.
Our Tick Control Program typically consists of 4 services throughout the season, although individual treatment plans can be set up based on your needs. We control ticks using a safer and more effective insecticide that targets ticks on contact. Our training and education in the field allows us to identify the areas where ticks live and specifically treat those areas, decreasing the amount of pesticide needed to control and reduce the tick population. This, in turn, will decrease the threat of ticks and the associated risks to your family and pets.
We can alter your tick control program, as necessary, to target fleas.
What We're Targeting
Spring
The Spring tick control applications target the ticks that are still in the nymph stage of development. They will need two blood meals in order to grow into the adult stage of their life cycle, which means that Spring is when you will have the Highest Bite Risk Potential on your property. The source of their blood meals comes from people, pets, deer, and small animals, such as mice, squirrels and chipmunks.
Summer
The Summer tick control applications target the adult ticks that have been re-introduced to your property by deer and small animals, such as mice, squirrels and chipmunks.
Fall
The Fall tick control applications target the adult ticks that have been re-introduced to your property. This application is especially important because it is targeting the adult ticks that are pregnant, or will be mating, and laying eggs (typically 2500 -3000 of them at a time). A reduction in those ticks means less nymphs in the Spring, when there is the highest risk of being bitten.
How the Service is Performed:
Our applicator will use a commercial, high-pressure sprayer, which will treat up to 40 feet into the woods surrounding your property, in addition, but not limited to the following areas:
- landscape beds, both mulched and un-mulched
- under trees & shrubs
- ground covers, such as pachysandra
- around rock & stone walls
- leaf & brush piles
Tick control applications being done with a backpack sprayer or with a granular product simply aren't as effective at killing the ticks.
Tick Habitat
Ticks prefer to live in the cool, moist woodlands, where they have the best chance of finding an animal host. Dense, mature woods with a thick undergrowth of shrubs and small trees are their favorite habitat.
They are also found along the edge of the woods; in ground covers, such as mulch beds and pachysandra; in stone wall areas; brush, leaf and wood piles; and in tall grasses, such as fields.
Very few are found in lawns, because properly mowed lawns are typically too hot and dry to sustain the tiny ticks.
Click here to download
the CT Tick Management Handbook [PDF Document].
Life Cycle of the Tick
Tick & Flea Identification
Black Legged (Deer) Tick
American Dog Tick
Lone Star Tick
Asian Long Horned Tick
Gulf Coast Tick
Fully Fed (Engorged) Tick
Tick Eggs
Flea
Tick Control Guarantee
While complete tick eradication is always our goal, that isn't always possible. If you find a tick on your property after your service, please let us know. We will come back and re-treat the last application at no charge.