Protect Your Pets and Children From Pesky Ticks with a Tick Yard Treatment in the Franklin and Hendersonville, TN, Areas

If you’ve ever pulled an engorged tick from your dog’s belly—or worse, from your child’s neck— you know how disgusting these creatures can be. Worse, ticks carry diseases including Lyme disease, and that’s the last thing you want on your mind when you tell your kids and dogs to go play outside. Fortunately, you can protect your pets and children from pesky ticks with a tick yard treatment in the Franklin and Hendersonville, TN, areas.

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Looking Out for Ticks

Ticks are a major problem in many areas. These little blood-sucking creatures prefer shady, moist areas at ground level. This can include tall grass, shrubs and other plants typically 18-24 inches from the ground.

However, keeping your kids and pets away from the more wooded areas of the landscape won’t necessarily help. Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks also live in lawns, particularly near old stone walls or at the edge of wooded areas.

Ticks only attach to animals or humans by direct contact (contrary to popular belief, they do not drop onto passing animals or people). This means that the best chance of preventing tick bites is to completely avoid contact with soil, vegetation, or leaf litter—which is practically impossible with kids and pets.

How to Treat the Landscape for Ticks

Professionally treating a tick-infested area is more effective than trying to use tick control products that can be bought off the shelf. The truth is DIY tick control products from box stores or landscape supply stores are just not as potent as the professional-grade products. You may get “some” results from DIY products but never the complete peace of mind you’d achieve by having the pros treat your yard.

Understanding the Life Stages of Ticks

Multiple applications may be necessary to keep these tiny pests at bay. Throughout the spring and summer, ticks can be present in your yard in one of four stages: egg (one tick can lay thousands of eggs); larva (this is when they begin seeking blood hosts, although they usually seek smaller hosts like mice); nymph (the stage when they search in earnest for blood hosts); and adult. Now, the tick will hunt for its third and final host.

What does this mean to you? You’ll need multiple applications of pesticide to kill ticks in all of their life stages, so you don’t have a constantly recurring tick problem. “Tick season” typically runs from April to October.

Experienced application is required, to ensure the safety of pets and children, and to ensure that it is carried out correctly to get the tick problem under control. Not only will the tick control application happen safely, it will also be done as needed throughout tick season using professional-grade treatments that are much more likely to thoroughly eliminate ticks than DIY products.

You won’t have to worry about the trade-off between your pets’ and childrens’ safety and the joys of playing outside, when you talk to your local lawn care professional about tick control. By making the call today, you can get on the schedule for next year’s tick season.

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