• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 days ago

      It’s spring (your hemisphere may vary) and time to set out tick tubes!

      Tick tubes are cardboard tubes stuffed with cotton fluff soaked in permethrin. Mice use the cotton to make nests. The permethrin kills ticks on the mice, reducing the tick load of the area. It doesn’t hurt the mice, and is much more targeted than just spraying the whole yard for insects.