[Little Pig]

Short of DDT, what area sprays could one hit their property with to cut down the tick population, hypothetically?

I know they do something like this up in Canada to keep the ticks from killing the moose population there. There must be something available on the market that could be sprayed into treelines and bushes to knock down the ticks.

Ideally, this would be a 1-2-3 effort, where the ticks are knocked down now, and then in 4-5 months, something else gets sprayed to destroy any eggs, and then next spring yet a third chemical gets put out just after snowmelt to kill any nymphs that might have survived the other two.

[21twelve]

I remember my old man had a motorized fogger for mosquitoes up at our cabin - up until the mid-seventies. Not sure if it was DDT or not. I’m guessing there must be something that can be used. There are cans of “Off” that are foggers - so perhaps there is something for ticks.

[Monitor]

Short of DDT, what area sprays could one hit their property with to cut down the tick population, hypothetically?

Pyrethrum or a synthetic variant such as Permethrin. But for God's sake find out all the critters that this stuff kills before you go spraying it around your yard and kill your daughter's cat.

[raybbr]

I’ve sprayed Sevin around my yard for years. My dogs are both gone now though.