What to do about ticks?

[JSeery]

Yep.

Also put out tick tubes.

6-8" sections of 1 1/2" or 2" PVC pipe (the lightweight stuff is fine, doesn't matter), stuffed with cotton soaked in permethrin , Let the cotton dry before you stuff it in the tubes. Put these tubes where mice can find them. They steal the cotton for nesting material, and the permethrin kills the tick nymphs on the mice. Kill the ticks, and you break the cycle.

This is really cheap to do.

Great idea. Will try this.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Forgot to add, you need to do this spring and fall, when they are doing most of their nest building. Remember where you put them!

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Forgot to add, you need to do this spring and fall, when they are doing most of their nest building. Remember where you put them!

 

[blades]

Are you referring to STARI (southern tick associated rash illness)?

No This something new discovered in the last 12 months or so. It is an entirely separate affliction but the symptoms are dang near identical to Lyme as is the virus/bacteria itself. It may be why the progression of untreated Lyme. similar to the relationship of chickenpox/shingles.