Barrier work along the woodline, the stone walls and the foundation beds — where blacklegged ticks actually live — instead of a blanket spray across ground where they never were.
Blacklegged ticks — the ones that carry Lyme, anaplasmosis and babesiosis — dry out and die in open, mown, sunlit turf. They survive in leaf litter, along stone walls, in mulched foundation beds and at the forest edge, and they get carried into those places by mice and deer. In Hartford County that means the risk on a typical property is concentrated in a strip perhaps fifteen feet wide.
Treating that strip properly does more than spraying the whole yard, and it uses a small fraction of the product. It is also the reason we walk the property before quoting: we need to know where your edge actually is, where the wall runs, and which side the deer come in on.
The play zone decides which products we are prepared to carry at all. Anything that goes down where children and dogs spend time is chosen for how it dries and how it breaks down, not only for what it kills — and it goes down at the lightest label rate that still works. Where pressure readings are genuinely low, a botanical option is often enough.
Ticks stay active whenever the ground is not frozen. In Connecticut that includes stretches of December and February. Adult deer ticks are out on any thawed day, which is why the October application matters as much as the spring one.
Suffield and West Suffield, plus East Granby, Granby, Windsor Locks, Windsor, Enfield, Simsbury and the neighbouring Hartford County towns. See the full service area.
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