Re: Seeing more ticks this years..

On 2008-06-10, doctoroe <doctoroe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I really have not seen ticks this thick even in lawn grass before.
> Anyone know if there is a lawn treatment that will get them, but won't
> kill earthworms?

I don't think spraying with Malathion will harm the earth worms much.
It would be pretty diuted by the time water washed it to earthworm
depth and would have broken down from being exposed to air.  

The pyrethrin stuff would probably be safer.  And with either you have
to remember to respray because you have several generations of ticks out
there.
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