A tick control service treats the areas of your yard where ticks live and wait. Tick tubes target the ticks on the mice that spread them. The two methods work on different points in the tick's life cycle and can complement each other.
You’re tired of ticks. No one can blame you. So you might want to know which way to get rid of them is the best. Both work, but there are very different reasons why.
Tick control services directly treat the habitat. A technician will come to your property and treat the areas where ticks wait for hosts, like shaded and brushy edges of the yard. This reduces the ticks present in those areas and keeps working on the treated surfaces. It’s a lot like a mosquito barrier treatment.
Tick tubes work indirectly, by targeting a key host. White-footed mice are major carriers of young ticks and a main source of Lyme disease infections in ticks. Tick tubes are small tubes filled with cotton treated with a tick-control agent (permethrin). Mice collect the cotton to line their nests, and in doing so, the treatment reaches the ticks on the mice. This reduces the immature ticks before they grow up and spread out.
For a property with heavy tick pressure, as many South Jersey yards near woods and brush have, there is no reason you can’t use both. Direct treatment and a host-targeted approach like tick tubes give you a very good chance of knocking down the tick population on your property. And with fewer ticks around, your odds of finding one on your leg are a lot lower.
If you're tired of fighting ticks with just one tool, Mosquito Squad of South Jersey can help. Mosquito Squad treats the brushy, shaded zones where ticks wait. This helps protect your family with up to 90% reduction in pest activity on a recurring 21-day cycle.
