Deer Tick Control

 The usually warm winter and spring has changed the timing of control programs for many types of weeds and insects. Insect populations are normally reduced during the cold winter months. Treatment programs in 2012 commenced earlier the normal and in many cases extra applications of control products were added to existing control programs.
Controling ticks and especially deer ticks is especially difficult. The naturalized ,"high grass", areas on 8, 11 and 15 are treated with insecticide twice in the spring and when the high grass reaches a height of 6 inches, Tick tubes made by Damminix are placed every 30 feet along the perimeters of the high grass areas. Mice, who are the host animal of deer ticks will take the cotton balls in the tubes back to their nesting area and use the cotton for bedding. The cotton balls are treated with a Permethrin, a product that will not harm the mice, but will kill and deer ticks on the mice or in their nests.
The treatment is repeated every month throughout the months of May, June, July and August