Ticks can carry a variety of diseases. While Lyme is the most well-known, others include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, and ehrlichiosis. If you live in a part of the country where ticks may also reside, you want to take great care to help minimize the risk of ticks invading the space around your home. If they are present, they can easily latch on to your animals, including cats and dogs, your children when they are playing, or even yourself if you are sitting outside enjoying a drink or doing yard work. Fortunately, there are a few easy things you can do to minimize the risk of ticks around your home. Here are a few of those things:

Clear Brush Around Your Home

One of the ways that you can deter ticks from hanging out around your home is to clear brush away from your home. Brush can include anything from overgrown trees, shrubs, and grass that needs to be cut back. Ticks love to hide, rather than being exposed and out in the open. When you have brush that is overgrown, you are giving ticks the perfect place to set up their home and even lay eggs. Keeping up with your yard work can help to reduce the likelihood of ticks hanging out around your home. 

Construct a Fence Around Your Yard

Another way to minimize the risk of ticks around your home is to build a fence around your home. A fence in and of itself will not help to keep ticks out, as ticks can easily get through tiny cracks and holes in a fence. However, the fence will help to keep critters and wildlife, such as mice, rats, possums, and raccoons out of your yard. All of these pests can be hosts for ticks. The ticks can enter your space when these pests do and fall off their host and then hang out near your house. Keeping wildlife out of your yard helps to keep ticks out. 

Stack Wood Neatly in Your Space

The last way to decrease the risk of ticks hanging out around your home is to stack wood neatly in your yard. When wood is strewn about your yard, it becomes the perfect place for some pests that carry ticks, including rats and mice, and ticks themselves, to create a home. When wood is stacked up, it helps to minimize the gap and openings in the woodpile. In turn, this helps to decrease the chances of a pest, including ticks, turning the woodpile into their home. 

Taking the time to continuously clear brush around your home, constructing a fence around your yard and stacking wood neatly in your space can help to minimize the risk of ticks around your home. This can help to keep yourself, your family and your pets healthy and free of ticks. Contact a tick control service for more information and assistance.