Home & Yard Repellants
Create a Tick-Safe-Zone through Landscaping
You can make yard less attractive to ticks depending on how to landscape. Here are some simple landscaping techniques that can help reduce tick populations
- Clear tall grasses and brush around homes and at the edge of lawns.
- Place a 3-ft wide barrier of wood chips or gravel between lawns and wooded areas and around patios and play equipment. This will restrict tick migration into recreational areas.
- Mow the lawn frequently and keep leaves raked.
- Stack wood neatly and in a dry area (discourages rodents that ticks feed on).
- Keep playground equipment, decks, and patios away from yard edges and trees and place them in a sunny location, if possible.
- Remove any old furniture, mattresses, or trash from the yard that may give ticks a place to hide.
- Refer to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s Tick Management Handbook (PDF, 8.53 MB) for a comprehensive guide to preventing ticks and their bites through landscaping.
Products to Help Protect
Wondercide Yard & Garden Spray
- Control fleas, ticks, mosquitoes and hundreds of other pests in your yard without harsh chemicals.
- Safe for children, pets, beneficial insects, and plants, even when wet. Just spray and play!
- 100% biodegradable & eco-friendly alternative to permethrin and pyrethroid yard products. Made in the USA!
- Treats the life cycle to kill adults, eggs, larvae, pupae of insects including chiggers, ants, roaches, chinch bugs, fleas, ticks, scorpions and japanese beetles. Also repels venomous snakes.
- Treats 5,000 square feet and can be refilled with the Yard + Garden concentrate.
Permetherin Insecticide
- Active Ingredient: Permethrin 36.8% ~~Target pests: Subterranean termites, and general broad insect control.
- For use in: Residential, commerical, and recreational areas.
- Application area: Perimeter treatment of lawns, ornamentals, recreation areas and athletic fields. Indoor spot, crack and crevice treatment. also labeled for kennels for fleas and ticks see label for details ~~Yield: 20-96 gallons.
Cedarcide Yardsafe
Outdoor Pest Control
- Made from all natural cedar.
- Ready-to-use.
- Kills and repels insects in all stages of life, such as fleas, ticks, ants, mosquitoes and mites.
- 1 qt. of Yardsafe covers up to 5,000 sq. ft.
- Apply monthly or as needed.
Essential Oils
Essential oils are used in combination or alone as an effective and nontoxic method to repel ticks from the yard.
Lavender, sage, lemongrass and thyme can each be mixed with water and sprayed directly onto the grass.
The spray is also an effective method for keeping ticks off your pets; just pay attention to your dog’s or cat’s reaction. Cats are especially sensitive to stronger, undiluted odors, so use the spray cautiously if your pets spend most of their time outdoors.
Reapply the essential oil in the yard as needed after a heavy rainfall.
Thermacell Tick Tubes
- Kills backyard ticks with Lyme disease.
- Easy to use: apply in minutes 2x a year.
- Doesn’t harm kids, pets, or environment.
- Developed at Harvard University School of Public Health.
- No spray; environmentally friendly.
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on all Thermacell products.
- Works best in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northern Woods where Lyme disease is concentrated and the deer tick population is high.
- Package contains: 24 Tick Control Tubes.
Damminix Tick Tubes
This remarkable solution consists of small tubes filled with cotton balls. The cotton is treated the mild insecticide Permethrin. To use it, simply place Damminix Tick Tubes in areas around your yard where mice frolic. That’s it. Mice will do the rest for you by gathering the cotton to build nests in their burrows. Young ticks feeding on the mice are killed by the insecticide before they can spread Lyme Disease to you, your family and your pets.
Each mouse nesting with Damminix Tick Tubes can kill hundreds of ticks each season. Studies have shown that Damminix Tick Tubes actually reduces the risk of exposure to an infected tick by up to 97% on a treated property. Now, you can Take Back the Outdoors!
Damminix Tick Tubes reduce the risk of Lyme Disease by using mice as “couriers” to kill disease carrying deer ticks.
