What Attracts Ticks to Your Yard?

Have you created an ideal tick habitat in your yard?

How do you know if ticks love your yard? There are quite a few things that might bring ticks onto your property. Here’s what might be attracting ticks to your outdoor spaces.

Shade, Moisture Attract Ticks

Ticks cannot survive in direct sunlight, or dry areas. To limit their ability to live in your yard, provide as little shade and moisture as possible. Often, ticks can reside beneath porches, where moisture and shade are plentiful. The key is to find ways to limit moisture under structures, like decks, porches, and outdoor buildings.

Tall Grass, Grass Clippings, Leaves Attract Ticks

Because ticks thrive in protected areas, we must be cognizant of the ways our yard work can lead to tick invasions. Be sure to mow often and bag up lawn clippings for proper disposal. Additionally, we cannot allow leaves and tree litter to accumulate, as this can become an ideal tick habitat.

Tasty Plants, Tasty Trash Attract Animals That Carry Ticks

We would be remiss to not explain how ticks can enter your yard by proxy. Ticks that are feeding on wild animals can be carried onto your property, where that animal has been attracted by a food source. For mice, this means pet food left outdoors, meat, seeds, grains left in trash bins close to your home. Try to plant items that animals will not be attracted to and try not to leave garbage in bins for long periods of time, so wild animals will not be tempted into your yard.

Tick control ought to be part of your vector control in El Paso.

Mosquito Squad of El Paso offers proven and effective methods of tick control. If you live in an area with tall grasses (even decorative grasses), woodlands, or that is close to a body of water with plenty of shade, tick control should become a part of your El Paso vector control efforts. We can treat your yard for ticks with our barrier protection sprays during warm weather months and with tick tube installations to keep your tick control during the cold weather months.

Search for tick control near me and choose Mosquito Squad.

Shade, moisture, tall grasses, grass clippings, and leaves can attract ticks to your yard. Animal attractants can also lead to ticks in your yard. Though Mosquito is in our name, Mosquito Squad of El Paso offers myriad pest control solutions for your home or business. Find out more about our pest control in El Paso - get in touch with Mosquito Squad of El Paso by filling out our form online  or calling us at (915) 800-0343 for a free quote.

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