Here at Green Goddes LLC, we have an extremely targeted tick control method. Twice annually, tubes with cotton soaked in insecticide are placed where mice frequently travel. Mice use the cotton as nesting material; the insecticide does not impact the mice but kills ticks mice pick up in the environment. Treated areas see a 70-80+ percent reduction in ticks in a treated area. Ticks often pick up Lyme disease from mice rather than deer.
Lyme disease is a bacterial illness transmitted through the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, often referred to as the deer tick or bear tick. The illness impacts both people and animals. Lyme arguably has more impact on our community than any other local pest vectored disease. In 2022, Minnesota reported 2,685 likely Lyme disease cases supported by confirmatory lab evidence.
1,537 (57%) of all likely cases were male.
The median age for cases was 52 years (with a range from 1 to 96 years).
To contract Lyme disease, an individual needs to be bitten by an infected blacklegged tick (commonly referred to as deer tick or bear tick) carrying the Lyme disease bacteria.
Approximately 1 in 3 adult blacklegged ticks and 1 in 5 blacklegged tick nymphs (the immature stage) carry Lyme disease bacteria.
The tick needs to be connected for a minimum of 24-48 hours to spread the bacteria.