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How to prevent ticks
How to prevent ticks
Because of their ability to spread different diseases, including serious ones like Lyme Disease, ticks are particularly harmful pests. You shouldn’t allow ticks to establish large populations in your area and should actively prevent tick bites. In this article, we highlight tips and measures for preventing tick bites and infestations.
Wear protective clothing
Wearing protective clothing to keep ticks away should be focused on keeping the entire skin covered. The lesser the exposed skin area, the lower the chances of tick bites and the transmission of different diseases. Wearing protective clothing to prevent tick bites is especially important when spending time outdoors, especially in tick-prone areas. The level of protection a particular article of clothing offers is dependent on the nature of the fabric, in addition to the level of skin exposed. Choose a thicker fabric that will be harder for the critters to penetrate. Wearing loose-fitting clothing will also help in preventing tick bites.
Remove hiding places
Tick infestations are bound to be established in areas with suitable hiding places. Ticks like to stay in shaded areas and within humid environments. If there are no such areas around your property, you can directly control the population of ticks and prevent infestations.
Possible hiding spots for ticks abound, from underneath leaf litter to beside or underneath stacks of wood. You should focus on removing all forms of clutter around your property to discourage tick activity. You also want to remove toys and playsets from close to the end of yards or near wooded areas so as to not create suitable hiding places for the critters.
Stay away from shaded areas
This is an important tip for preventing tick bites. Ticks are bound to be found in wooded areas. Staying away from such areas directly prevents tick bites. Ticks specifically apply wooded areas in attaching to their hosts. They climb to the top of the grass and other vegetation from where they can easily access the skin of hosts that come around.
Staying away from wooded areas, in addition to wearing protective clothing, are thus top tips for preventing tick bites. When hiking, make sure to stick to the middle of the hiking trails and stay away from humid areas where ticks will most likely be.
Mow your lawn
Ticks will take advantage of your unmowed lawn to infest your property. Your unmowed lawn provides the shade and humidity they need to hang around. Keeping your lawn unmowed thus presents threats of a tick infestation and tick bites for you and your pets.
When you mow your lawn regularly, you create an environment that is unattractive to the critters and will prevent infestations.
Keep tick hosts away
The presence of tick hosts on your property will help to keep the critters away. This is because ticks maintain close relationships with their hosts, especially deer and rodents.
Employ measures such as physical barriers and natural repellents to keep well-known hosts away from your property and manage tick populations in your area.
Keep ticks away from your property by making it unattractive to the critters. Prevent tick bites by reducing possible contact with ticks and wearing protective clothing.
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