While your yard is a sanctuary for you or your pet, it may also be a prime location for blood-sucking fleas and ticks that like to hide in your lawn and can cause more than skin irritation. Fleas and ticks can spread disease, making it imperative to stop infestation quickly. These five steps will help you gain control over the fleas and ticks in your yard.
Step 1: Prep Your Lawn
Fleas and ticks thrive in overgrown foliage and long grass, making it essential to keep your lawn trimmed. Mowing your lawn, pruning foliage regularly, and cleaning up clippings and yard waste make your yard less hospitable to fleas and ticks. Shorter grass and vegetation decrease moisture and allow chemical applications to reach these pests more easily.
Step 4: Deter Wildlife Visitors
Deer, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, mice, and other stray wildlife can easily transport fleas and ticks to your yard, making it imperative that you make your yard less desirable to these animals. You can limit their access by keeping a lid on garbage cans, patching holes in fences, cleaning up birdseed, planting deer-resistant plants, removing uneaten pet food, and installing deer fencing.
Step 5: Treat Your Yard
You can treat your yard, and home exterior with a yard and premise spray labeled to kill adult fleas and ticks. Be sure to spray under trees and bushes, around doorframes, and along fence lines. Additionally, treat areas with lots of shade such as sheds, patios, crawl spaces, shrubbery, and even dog houses or kennels. Follow the label directions and treat your yard and home exterior as recommended.
At Emtec Pest Control, we are committed to safe and responsible pest control. We understand that your family’s safety is your number one priority, so we make it our priority, too.
If you have any other questions about any of these pests or pest control for your home or business, contact your Oklahoma pest control experts at Emtec Pest Control by calling us or by filling out our online contact form.