It is an infestation , ticks and fleas have invaded the tall grass of the land outside the house. Children can no longer play in the garden . Pets, dogs and cats , are bitten by fleas and bitten by ticks. Their coats are full of these parasites that they carry inside the house . The garden has become a health risk area . These insects can transmit bacteria responsible for many pathologies, including Lyme disease . How to protect yourself, advice on treating the garden , is there an effective repellent ?
This article answers these questions:
- My garden is overrun with ticks and fleas
- To protect yourself physically in the garden or in the forest
- To protect your pets
- How to remove ticks
- How to treat your garden if it is invaded by ticks and fleas
My garden is overrun with ticks and fleas
At first glance, one might be tempted by a chemical treatment.
To destroy ticks or fleas which are cold-blooded animals, one could use products based on pyrethrin or pyrethroids. But they have the disadvantage of killing all cold-blooded animals. I advise you not to use these products outdoors, by wanting to kill ticks and fleas, you will have destroyed the biodiversity of your garden. One of the best regulators of the tick population is the biodiversity and number of their predators: many beetles, some spiders, some ants, insectivorous birds, hedgehogs, shrews, field mice, lizards.
To protect yourself physically in the garden or in the forest
The goal is to keep these insects from biting you, and that goes for mosquitoes too.
The solution: ICARDINE which keeps insects away for 8 hours.
Spray your clothes, shoes, and skin with INSECT FREE.
INSECT FREE contains 20.6% ICARDINE . This will be enough to keep ticks, fleas and mosquitoes from biting you for 8 hours.
ICARDIN is recommended by the WHO for its effectiveness, even in tropical countries, and it is not an insecticide, so no toxicity linked to pesticides.
To protect your pets
ICARDINE again!
INSECT FREE exists in different presentations adapted to the treatment of pets, especially horses. In 500 ml, in 2.5 liters, and in Roll. Due to the hairiness of the animals, the treatment is more effective, and can reach 24 hours of effectiveness.
Another method
White diatomaceous earth, without any pesticides, is used to rub directly on the fur of domestic animals and the plumage of farmyard animals. It will rid them of their parasites.
How to remove ticks
The most effective and safe way to remove ticks while minimizing the risk of contracting Lyme disease is to use the real Tick Twister.
3 sizes to remove all ticks
To avoid being contaminated by Lyme disease or the encephalitis virus, no pressure should be applied to the tick's body when removing it. These tick removers, invented and manufactured in France , are perfectly designed to grab the tick while minimizing pressure on the insect's body, and to prevent it from contaminating the wound by regurgitating infectious bacteria.
How to treat your garden if it is invaded by ticks and fleas
Ticks and fleas have taken over your garden, you can no longer go there without being bitten by ticks, bitten by fleas, and on top of that, there are mosquitoes . It's the jungle, the health risk is obvious, you have to treat.
In many areas, ticks carry Lyme disease, but they also carry the encephalitis virus and a few others.
This problem is not easy to deal with.
Combining a few simple practices will allow you to significantly limit the density of these parasites. As a result, you will also get rid of mosquitoes.
1) The burning technique , provided that it is well controlled... It is radical, and the pollinators will not be affected, they will fly away at the first smoke. The soil will not be impregnated with insecticide and the ticks and fleas will be carbonized.
2) Regular, very short mowing deprives ticks of their main habitat, which is tall grass.
3) Limit watering , ticks develop better in humid areas, which is why they proliferate on the edge of forests or in woods.
4) Delete plants that attract ticks. First of all, the brooms .
5) Plant aromatic herbs and repellent flowers . Aromatic plants will perfume your garden and your dishes, repellent flowers will beautify the surroundings of your house.
- Some examples of aromatic plants: basil, lemon thyme, bay leaf.
- Some examples of repellent flowers: absinthe, lemon geranium, lavender, lemon balm, lantana. Chrysanthemums, and in particular the Dalmatian pyrethrum, which is a chrysanthemum from which natural pyrethrum is extracted.
6) Plant a chestnut tree in your garden. Chestnut is a very powerful repellent against all insects. You will never find a spider or a woodworm in a chestnut frame.
7) Spread plant purines . Lavender purines, nettle purines, horsetail purines or comfrey purines. These purines are natural insecticides that enrich the soil while strengthening the beautiful flowers you have just planted.
Mown lawn and biodiversity
At the beginning of this article, I mentioned that a natural tip to limit the infestation of harmful insects is to promote the biodiversity of your garden. Natural predators are responsible for regulating the populations of their environment.
By regularly mowing very short, and by limiting watering, it is certain that we are not promoting this biodiversity, quite the contrary.
The main problem is that we must act to preserve the health of the whole family . Therefore, we must eliminate the presence of these unwanted guests without destroying all the insects, including soil worms, butterflies, bees, ladybugs and other adventites.
If the garden is small , too bad, it must be mown very short regularly, and watering limited.
If the garden is larger , the trick is to delimit a regularly mowed area, this will be the living area, around the house, the swimming pool and the terrace. The rest of the land will be left to nature. You can sow wild flowers there. This natural part of your garden will compensate for the mowed part, it will retain insects of all kinds which will regulate themselves among themselves.
I will soon be doing an article on preventing Lyme disease.
