A tick in the bathroom on Monday. Another one on your shirt on Thursday. You find the third one on your sofa on Saturday. Well, it’s time to clean them out once and for all. Ticks lead to Lyme disease, and you should call the experts to get rid of them as soon as possible.
You may ignore a couple of ticks in the bathroom or your living room, but you never know if they are breeding in your house or not. Tick infestation can be harmful to everyone in your home, and it’s better to deal with them even if you only see a couple.
DIY tick removal
Your first instinct may be to step on the tick to kill it instantly. But ticks don’t die quickly. They have a rugged bodies, and stepping on them may not work. A better alternative is to take some toilet paper, pick the tick up, and flush it down the toilet. Sometimes, ticks in your bed can bite you. Instead of pressuring and killing them with your fingers, take a pair of tweezers, pull the tick off, and flush it.
Expert tick removal
Flushing the tick down the toilet is a temporary solution. First, you have to find their breeding place to get rid of them from your house. If you can’t do that, you should call the nearest pest control Sydney expert. The experts are best at identifying the spot where the ticks are coming from.
Ticks thrive in humid conditions. Therefore, they prefer places where the average humidity is at least 90%. That’s why you may notice ticks on your clothes if you hang them to dry outside on the roof or in your backyard.
Professionals start by spraying natural pesticides to kill the ticks. These pesticides don’t harm the environment and won’t lead to rashes on your kids’ or pets’ bodies. They would also look for their nest in and outside your house. Once they find the nest, they will destroy it and spray pesticides so that none of the ticks survive.
Ticks outside your house
Homes usually don’t have an average humidity of 90%. That means ticks won’t survive for long if they manage to enter your house. While it’s a good thing that you won’t have to deal with many of them at once, you should still ensure that they are not around. Houses with storage sheds, closed garages, doghouses, or rustic vacation cabins are more likely to become the breeding place for ticks as they remain closed most of the time.
Pest control teams spray non-toxic pesticides to get rid of the ticks. They target window sills, corners around cabinets, and moldings, and baseboards to kill these pests. They also sprinkle diatomaceous earth on pet beddings and carpets to dehydrate ticks and kill them naturally.
Don’t take ticks lightly. They can multiply in huge numbers within a few days. Call a pest control company right away if you don’t want ticks to spread in and around your house.
