What can be done to control tick populations?
• There are measures you can take to reduce the number of ticks around your home. In general, drier conditions mean fewer blacklegged ticks: • Keep lawns mowed, brush trimmed, and leaf litter away from the home. • Keep trails or paths in wooded areas on your property clear of vegetation. • Make a landscape barrier (such as a three foot wide border of wood chips) between your lawn and the woods.
There are measures you can take to reduce the number of ticks around your home. In general, drier conditions mean fewer blacklegged ticks: • Keep lawns mowed, brush trimmed, and leaf litter away from the home. • Keep trails or paths in wooded areas on your property clear of vegetation. • For more information: Minnesota Ticks and Their Control Minnesota Extension Service, U of MN Attention: Non-MDH link • Tick Management Handbook (PDF: 7,153KB/71 pages) Tick management handbook with information on protecting yourself from ticks, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Attention: Large file advisory, this document may load slowly.
