The non-beneficial insects are my greatest gardening foe. Cleaned up the front yard garden and got into chiggers and seed ticks. Makes me not want to even go outside. They’re bad this year with all the rainwater they can drink in their travels. I’m buying some Sevin granules today to do my usual band around the house/yard. Also buying a new 5 gal bucket and will make up some permethrin solution to soak a set of clothes in and spray a pair of shoes with.
Deer & Wood Ticks are big by us this season. All outside hunting dogs, the Beagle and the two cats have all been doused with repellent, but just this morning there was a big, fat Wood Tick on the kitchen floor that obviously fell off of SOMEONE - and was immediately flushed.
Maybe it fell off of ME? *SHUDDER*
Can you do guineafowl? You won’t have a tick on your place! They are also good ‘alarm’ birds, from what I hear.
“Guineafowl are a low-maintenance flock that can be raised in small and backyard flocks. Flocks of guineas can kill and eat mice and small rats, as well as control insects such as wood ticks, grasshoppers, flies, and crickets.”