You can avoid tick bites in gardens by:
Avoiding overgrown or dense foliage and areas of deep leaf litter.
Keeping lawns mown, removing long grass from garden borders.
Regular trimming of bushes and shrubs and removal of low branches.
Removing leaf and bark litter.
Removing rubbish which could provide ticks with shelter.
Ensuring these ‘tick-reduced’ areas are maintained in locations where children and pets are likely to access regularly.
You can avoid tick bites outdoors by:
Wearing suitable clothing that reduces the amount of bare skin that is exposed.
Tuck long pants into socks and wear light coloured clothes so that any crawling ticks can be more easily seen and removed.
Use commercially available insect/arthropod repellents.
