About 20 years ago when our children were young we had a big problem with Deer Ticks. Our half-acre field behind our house had about a dozen deer per night and was our
two cats favorite place to roam. Each night our children 5 and 10 years of age would sleep with their favorite cat.
See the problem? Our nightly task before bed was to remove 3 to 5 ticks off each cat before the kids could go to bed. At the time we had just started carrying a new product in our Garden Center that kills deer ticks where they are born. As we do not like spraying a lot of chemicals around children and pets we needed a safe solution for our family as well as our customers. Our Children are now adults and never contracted Lyme Disease.
The product name is Damminix Tick Tubes and was developed by two Harvard Grad students that did their thesis on Lyme Disesase. They discovered that Deer Ticks are born in the nests of the white footed mice. After further research and development they came up with cotton balls treated with Permethrin. The mice find the cotton balls which are in biodegradable cardboard tick tubes. The poison is only in an amount strong enough to kill baby deer ticks, so it does not hurt pets, children or the mice. The mice take the cotton balls they find in the tick tubes back to the nest for nesting material and the deer ticks are killed before they leave the nest already infected with Lyme Disease. Damminix Tick Tubes should be applied two
times per year, one in April/early May and the second in mid to late August. Damminix not only kills the deer ticks in the nest but also kills the ones on the mice. It is not effective on the ticks that are already out of their nest. Two treatments yearly and our Deer Tick problem
was solved. The first application is due now, each box treats a half acre. You can order Damminix Tick Tubes at www.garden-shops.com/Damminix-Tick-Tubes-s/2134.htm or email info@garden-shops.com.
