Tick Control

Up until now, choices for tick control for your yard have been limited to chemical insecticides. Introducing Essentria™ Tick Treatment for your yard. It’s an all-natural and scientifically proven product that has been shown to be as effective as chemical insecticides.

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Controlling ticks is often a community-wide effort that involves wildlife management, rodent control, and insecticide treatments. Homeowners can make a difference by making smart landscape decisions around the home, teaching their children about ticks, and treating pets with products like Frontline™ or Advantix™.

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Introducing Essentria™ Tick Treatment For Your Yard to Keep Your Family Safe.

The active ingredient in Essentria™ is a proprietary combination of plant essential oils. Essential oils are present primarily in aromatic plants – those often used as herbs or for their scent. In these plants, essential oils serve many functions, including helping to regulate evaporation, attract specific insects for pollination, and, most importantly, defending the plant against insects and microorganisms.

How it Works

The essential oils that comprise the active ingredients in Essentria work by disrupting neurotransmitter function in ticks. Neurotransmitters conduct nerve impulses between neurons (nerve cells) and other body parts, such as muscles. The neurotransmitter binds to a receptor site on the affected cell, and then is broken down and deactivated by enzymes. In invertebrates such as ticks, with their simpler nervous systems, a multi-functional chemical known as octopamine handles many of these functions.

By targeting octopamine receptors, essential oils provide insecticidal activity with a much wider margin of safety than other products. Because vertebrates like birds, fish, dogs and people don’t have octopamine receptors, they are not affected by the Essentria mode of action. And, by combining multiple essential oil compounds that have varied profiles, Essentria provides highly effective control. The result is all-natural tick control with no compromises.

 

 

Hard Tick Protocol

Background There are about 80 species of ticks in the U.S. and 865 species worldwide. Ticks have become an increasing problem in the United States due to their ability to transmit new disease pathogens and their spread to new geographic locations. The two most well-established families of ticks are hard ticks (Ixodidae) and soft ticks (Argasidae). This protocol focuses on hard ticks since they are the most commonly encountered family of ticks.

 

Understanding Ixodidae Habits and Life Cycle

• Ticks can live several months without feeding.
• Ticks can live for three months to three years before becoming adults.
• Females die after laying eggs and males die after mating.
• Obligate blood-feeders requiring a host animal for food and development.
• Many of the ticks encountered by PMPs are hard ticks which are typically three-host ticks.
• In three-host ticks the larva and nymphs feed one time on the host then drop to the ground, digest their meal and wait on another host.
• Ticks find their hosts by detecting animals´ breath and body odors, or by sensing body heat, moisture and vibrations.
• Ticks can’t fly or jump, but many tick species wait in a position known as “questing.” Questing is the behavior where ticks hold onto vegetation with their third and fourth pair of legs. They hold the first pair of legs outstretched, waiting to climb onto the host.

 

 

Prevention

Make sure to take precautions from getting bitten when working in tick infested areas. – Wear light-colored long-sleeve shirts and long pants tucked into socks. – Apply a DEET repellent or a permethrin spray to your clothes.

Common Hot Spots- Inspect all areas around the home, including tick hot spots. – The lawn perimeter (where lawn meets woods) – Tall grasses or bushes – Pet kennels or places that animals or pets frequent – Leaf litter and pine litter Control Strategies • Source reduction

Exterior

• Keep grass mowed
• Remove leaf litter, brush and weeds at the edge of lawn.
• Remove brush and leaves around stonewalls and wood piles.
• Use plants that do not attract deer, or exclude deer through fencing.
• Discourage rodent activity by removing food and water sources, and items that can provide them shelter.
• Treat pets with a product registered for use on animals.
• Remove leaf litter under bushes

Interior

• Vacuum
• Wash pet bedding
• Have pets treated by vet

 

Why Call Us?

We strictly follow a customized Integrated Pest Management Plan to control your problem pest. We pride ourselves in not over promising and underdelivering. Our technicians are required to perform a thorough inspection on each visit. We work with homeowners and business owners to eliminate the issue and work with you for further prevention.We also do not require yearly service plans. However it may be necessary to return for future inspections and treatments to completely eliminate your pests.

 

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