Tick tubes. Permethrin sprayed directly will kill every beneficial insect as well and will just wash away after the first rain.
Tick tubes are toilet paper rolls filled with permethrin soaked cotton balls. Rodents collect the cotton balls to use as nesting material which kills the nymph ticks that live on them before they can mature into adults. You put then out in early spring and again in summer. You can either make them yourself (much cheaper) or buy them ready made.
Tick tubes are toilet paper rolls filled with permethrin soaked cotton balls. Rodents collect the cotton balls to use as nesting material which kills the nymph ticks that live on them before they can mature into adults. You put then out in early spring and again in summer. You can either make them yourself (much cheaper) or buy them ready made.