With the onset of the summer period, trips to nature and moving to country houses or country houses for the warm season become the most favorite entertainment.
Green, sun, clean air - it's all great, but the danger of tick bites is great. And this means that before you go on a barbecue, fishing, picking mushrooms or moving to your house closer to nature, you need a tick treatment.
Nature trips
Before you go to nature, you need to carefully prepare. The suburban area is not processed from dangerous insects, therefore, personal safety measures should be observed. First, you should wear closed clothing, especially on your legs. The head should be covered with a panama, scarf or other tight headgear. Secondly, it is necessary to use means of protection against ticks, which abound in stores. It can be an aerosol or a pencil. The anti-mite agent is applied to clothing, as well as to exposed skin, while avoiding contact with the mouth, eyes and nose.
Protect your site
Treatment of the territory from ticks is a rather difficult task, but doable. It is impossible to just come, pickle, and then live in peace. Treating your territory from ticks is a whole range of activities that must be completed in order to feel complete confidence in your safety and the safety of dear people.
First, you need to clear the area of old branches and dry grass. It is best to collect everything with a rake and burn it. Also, to prevent subsequent entry of insects into the area, a small ditch should be dug around the perimeter, into which the pest control preparation should be poured.
If the area is cleared, then the next step is to treat it from ticks. You can destroy dangerous insects by chemical or mechanical means. Etching is carried out with the help of special preparations, while it is necessary to strictly follow the instructions and observe safety measures. The best time for etching is considered to be the period when the snow has just melted, because the mites are still lethargic and have not become active. After spraying the anti-tick agent, it is not recommended to walk around the site for about 3 days, as under the influence of poisonous substances the ticks become active, which increases the risk of being bitten.
If for some reasonFor reasons it is not possible to pickle the site and the surrounding area, then you can simply collect the ticks that are on the site. To do this, take a stick and tie a white cloth to one end. Then walk around the site, drawing a canvas over the grass. All ticks that are on a rag must be burned. This is how mechanical treatment from ticks is performed.
Even after clearing the area of ticks, you need to take care of preventive measures. First, it is necessary to limit access to the site of stray animals. Most often, ticks enter the site along with rodents, so you should install traps and poison for them. If there are pets that go beyond the border of the treated area, then it is strongly recommended to purchase tick protection products for them as well. These can be drops that drip onto the withers of the animal, or a special collar. If this is not done, then the treatment for ticks can be a waste of time and, most importantly, lead to undesirable consequences.
