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Sorry, we do not service New Hampshire at this time.

LIMIT: Ticks live in wooded, brushy, or grassy areas so walk in the center of trails and mow your property where you and your pets spend time.

REPEL: Wear long, light-colored pants and socks to spot ticks more easily and use insect repellents.

INSPECT: Check your skin carefully for ticks after returning from outdoor activities especially if you were in wooded, brushy, or grassy areas. Common hiding places for ticks are the scalp, beard, back of the knees, armpits, groin, back of the neck, and behind the ears.

The most common symptoms of tick-borne infections include fever and chills, aches and pains, rash, and fever of varying degrees. Although most are treated with antibiotics, these diseases can be difficult for physicians to diagnose. Early recognition and treatment of the infection decrease the risk of serious complications. If you or a family member have been bitten by a tick and experience symptoms, see your healthcare provider immediately.

We recommend starting in April and spraying every 4 weeks for ticks and every 3 weeks for mosquitoes. Some years depending on the weather, this could go to October/November if you are still active in your yard.

We spray to provide a protected area where you, your family, and pets can safely enjoy your property. These areas are identified when we meet with you, walk your property, and understand how you use it. That’s why we insist on doing this.

You cannot fully eliminate a tick problem in one spray application, so we put together a program that would bring the most benefit of our product & optimal protection.

Our product destroys and repels the existing insect population. It dissolves the insect eggs and larva, thus eliminating the next generation of the anthropoid. Ticks are true hitchhikers and can be brought into your living area in many ways and during any month of the year. We strongly recommend a complete spraying program.

Clear tall grasses and brush from around the edge of the lawn.

Use a leaf blower to remove leaf litter to create a 3-foot barrier at the outside edge of your lawn.

Keep stacked firewood away from high traffic areas.

Keep playground equipment away from yard edges and trees.

Keep bird-feeders away from high traffic areas as they encourage rodents and larger animals to this area.

Discourage children and pets from going beyond the tick-safe zone.

The tick population is exploding. A single female can lay thousands of eggs!

Use tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.

Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don’t twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, rinse the skin with alcohol, apply an antibiotic ointment.  After removing the tick, disinfect your skin with alcohol and thoroughly wash your hands and the tweezers with soap and water.

The life cycle of a deer tick lasts about two years and begins in the early spring when an adult female engorged with blood lays fertilized eggs.

Deer tick eggs hatch into larvae in the late summer months, during which time they take one blood meal from a small mammal or bird. At this point, larval deer ticks are at risk for contracting diseases such as Lyme if they feed on an infected animal.

Engorged larvae will become dormant over the fall, using the blood for energy to molt into their next life stage. Once spring arrives, the deer tick nymphs become active again usually heaviest between April and August, although depending on the weather it could start as early as March. During this time, they will take their second blood meal, usually from another small to a medium-sized animal.

Nymph black-legged ticks are most known for transmitting Lyme disease to humans because their small size allows them to go undetected and feed for a longer period of time, increasing the risk of disease transmission.

Following their blood meal, deer tick nymphs will molt into an adult male or adult female during the fall months. Adult female deer ticks will take their third and final blood meal on large animals such as white-tailed deer, or dog or cat. Adult males will rarely feed and instead seek an engorged adult female to mate with.

Once the adult male has mated with the adult female, he will die and she will fall off the host and become dormant over winter, preparing to lay eggs in the spring. She will lay 2,000-4,000 eggs and die leaving the eggs to hatch during the summer.

Ticks don’t get Lyme disease from deer, and reducing deer populations will help curb Lyme disease transmission. If an adult female tick can’t feed, she isn’t able to reproduce. That means a reduction in the number of larval and nymph-stage ticks. Lyme disease is primarily spread to humans through the nymph-stage ticks, so having less of those ticks around could lead to fewer human infections.

Reducing the density of mice, chipmunks, or certain birds to reduce the chance that larvae and nymphs will feed on them and develop further (and also become infected), but killing one fed adult female deer tick is equivalent to killing 2,000 larvae or several hundred nymphs. White-footed mice are a reservoir host for several pathogens, including Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.