Do ticks in Texas require a tick exterminator?
Posted by Mosquito SquadDecember 19, 2023
All the prevalent and rare ticks in Texas have the potential to be disease vectors. If you live in an ideal tick habitat in Texas, we recommend tick extermination and control.
At Mosquito Squad of El Paso, we know that an ounce of prevention is key when it comes to Texas tick populations. We do not recommend tick extermination simply because we are tick exterminators. Because we know that while some tick diseases are curable, many are not, and they can cause lifelong illnesses or be fatal. We highly recommend year-round tick extermination efforts to stave off the potential for dangerous tick illnesses.
How do you know if your Texas home is an ideal tick habitat?
There are many hiding spots scattered across your home where ticks can hide. These include:
- Tall grass
- Plant leaves
- Wood piles
- Beneath a deck
- Near a bird bath, plant pot, pet bowl, or other areas where there's standing water
You can search far and wide for ticks across your property. Regardless, ticks hide, and they can be difficult to address on your own.
Do not expect your tick problem to go away on its own, either. Ticks in Texas can make it nearly impossible to enjoy time at your home without the risk of getting a tick bite. Fortunately, if you have a best-in-class tick exterminator at your side, you can address your tick problem before it escalates.
How does a tick exterminator get rid of ticks?
A trained tick exterminator's first step in eliminating ticks around your home is to identify their ideal potential habitats. Your tick exterminator will teach you about preventing ticks entering your property through landscaping methods and inform you about breaking up current spaces they could be hiding and thriving.
From here, your tick exterminator gets to work on addressing your tick problem. The exterminator can apply a tick barrier treatment that kills ticks on contact. This treatment delivers results that last up to 21 days.
During a tick barrier treatment, your exterminator addresses ticks at their breeding grounds. This helps control ticks that live at the edge of your lawn and other areas of your property.
What is year-round tick extermination?
Mosquito Squad of El Paso takes tick extermination to the next level with our proprietary tick tube treatment plan.
With our tick tube treatment, we strategically place tick tubes around your property. Each tube is filled with cotton, which attracts mice to it. Meanwhile, this cotton is treated with an insecticide that combats the ticks that attach themselves to mice.
As mice are drawn to tick tubes on your property, they take the insecticide-treated cotton with them and use it for bedding. At the same time, the ticks on these mice are taken to the mouse nests. Here, they are exposed to the insecticide-treated cotton, which kills them on contact.
Tick tubes are excellent for year-round tick extermination. Of course, when you have tick tubes installed by Mosquito Squad of El Paso, you can achieve the best-possible tick treatment results.
Call on Mosquito Squad of El Paso as your first-choice tick exterminator. To get started, fill out our form online or call us at (915) 800-0343 for a free quote.