Make sure that clotheslines are high enough off the ground so that clothes hanging from the line don’t touch the vegetation.Keep garbage in tightly sealed bins, away from your home.Remove woodpiles, brush, and leaf litter from the exterior of your home.Cut back wooded areas around your property to give ticks fewer places to hide.
They must drop off onto their host to feed.
Once fed, they remove themselves from their host and molt to nymphs on the ground. When larvae emerge from their eggs, they feed on the blood of small mammals and birds.
Tick species like deer ticks, American dog ticks, and brown dog ticks can be found throughout the world but tend to flourish in areas with warm or humid climates.Because they feed on the blood of different animals, they are major vectors of disease in humans and other mammals, spreading Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, and many other disease-causing agents.They can satisfy all their nutritional needs on a diet of blood.Ticks go through three major life stages: larval, nymphal, and adult, and require a different host in each stage.