Tick Control for Health and Well-being in This Season of Gratitude

Eradicating dangerous ticks and the diseases they bring throughout Central Massachusetts, even in autumn.

For many of us, a bounty of fall outdoor events are beginning with summer well behind us. I especially love stargazing at night with my kids. The wonders of a fall celestial sky are truly something to behold and cherish. And as for entertaining, autumn dinner parties bring a whole new level of fun to both friends and family breathing in the crisp, fresh night air.

Backyard tick control in autumn — Tick control and protection are important parts of outdoor gatherings in autumn.

It’s a wonderful thing to be of assistance to your neighbors and the community at large. That is one of my greatest gifts in bringing Mosquito Squad tick and mosquito control to our area. With cases of Lyme disease increasing and reaching alarmingly new heights throughout the Unites States, aggressive and dependable tick control is the best way to fight the bite.

To understand how Mosquito Squad protects you and your family, I created this short YouTube video.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

And speaking of being thankful, my favorite day of the year is quickly approaching – Thanksgiving. It’s a great time of the year to dwell on what makes our lives so precious. Thanks to my Mosquito Squad “one-two punch” ticks elimination service treatment, my family and I can enjoy the crisp, cool, clear evenings that autumn brings, as we spend countless hours outdoors after dinner.

I am extremely thankful and proud that I was one of the very first franchise owners to join Mosquito Squad. I believe in the good that our tick protection brings so much that I have increased our service footprint so that many more families throughout out area can stay safer and protected – regardless of the outdoor season.

fall and winter tick control — Autumn tick protection begins with tick tubes, but it doesn’t end there.

But remember, our highly effective, year-round tick control is just one part of the battle. When outdoors this fall, remember to dress appropriately, regardless of where you are. Ticks relish the opportunity to attach and cling onto a host and draw their blood. That’s how they survive and thrive.

To avoid autumnal tick bites, wear comfortable clothing that covers most of the areas of your body that would be normally exposed outdoors. Wear long pants or slacks instead of shorts. Avoid short sleeve shirts and be sure to have your arms covered – especially if you have a tendency to talk with your hands while having animated conversations outdoors (smiling). And although it may trend, forget about having bare feet in your shoes. Wear socks. Think of all this as protecting yourself with “smart clothing,” creating a barrier to avoid those dangerous insects.

Thank you for the trust you place in Mosquito Squad.

Dave Macchia, tick control enthusiast — Dave Macchia, Central Mass tick control enthusiast

Rest assured, this holiday season when my family gives thanks for our clients and the many blessings that surround protecting them, we will continue to serve our community at large by sharing our good fortune with charitable works and giving throughout our Central Massachusetts area.

Can my dog catch Lyme disease from other dogs?

Many questions about tick-borne illnesses concern their human impact. But what about our pets?

Pet owners are realizing more and more that proper tick protection is a must. Even when a dog lives in a low-risk area, he might still encounter a tick bite in his lifetime. This can happen when hiking, going to the beach, or just being outdoors, where there is grass and other vegetation. We know that dogs can contract Lyme disease. But can your dog catch Lyme disease from other dogs?

Can dogs catch Lyme disease from dogs? — Can my dog catch Lyme disease from other dogs?

Dogs only contract Lyme disease from ticks.

Just like humans, dogs and other animals can only contract Lyme disease from the bite of an infected tick. So, if you have a pet that is diagnosed with Lyme disease, you should know three things. First, Lyme disease can be cured in dogs if caught early. It is estimated that 10% of dogs will actually contract Lyme from the bite of an infected tick. Lyme disease cannot be passed to other dogs from your dog; nor can your dog catch Lyme disease from other dogs.

dogs cannot catch lyme from other dogs — Dogs cannot catch Lyme from other dogs.

How long does it take to become infected with Lyme?

dogs catch Lyme disease from tick bites only — A tick must be attached for about 48 hours in order to pass infection to your dog.

In order for Lyme bacteria to be passed to your dog, it must be attached for about 48 hours. This is one reason that you should check your dog regularly for ticks. This is especially true in the height of tick season. Even a short trip outdoors can result in a tick attaching to your dog.

Is my cat susceptible to Lyme infection?

While cats can contract Lyme disease from the bite of an infected tick, it is rare. That does not mean it is impossible, though. Symptoms in cats include, fatigue, fever, and difficulty breathing. Cats might also be infected, but show no symptoms. If you find an engorged tick on your cat, safely remove it, and watch for symptoms of infection.

Can cats contract lyme? — Can your cat get Lyme?

How can you keep ticks away from your dog?

There are many products, which have been created specifically for protecting dogs from ticks. From over-the-counter collars and ultrasonic devices, to prescription medications – you must weigh all your options. All-natural remedies are also available. As a pet owner, you must choose what you feel will best protect your dog.

See more tick and Lyme disease questions and answers:

At-home Gardner tick treatment is important for the health and safety of your whole family.

tick tubes — Tick tubes offer year-round tick control.

Central Massachusetts is a high-risk tick bite region. With the surge in tick populations, professional tick treatment has never been more important. Not only for the health of your human family, but also for your pets. You can choose between EPA-registered tick yard sprays and all-natural repellents. Each professional formula must be administered ever two to three weeks. All-natural tick barrier spray will offer less protection for a shorter amount of time. In the off-season, tick tubes are available.

Also read: Can you get Lyme disease from dog saliva?

These cotton-filled tubes were created to use from late fall through early spring. The cotton is treated with insecticide, which when carried back to the nests of rodents, will eliminate any ticks therein. Year-round is essential for ultimate tick control and protection for Lyme disease.

What is the best tick prevention?

When it comes to tick prevention, we want to use the most effective methods.

We ask the question, “What is the best tick prevention,” for two reasons. First, we want to know what is best for our families. Pet-owners are also very interested to know the best tick protection for their pets. There is more than one answer to this question.

What is the best tick prevention for your family?

When you are away from home, personal tick protection is key. Clothing treated with the pesticide, permethrin, can be worn when hiking for tick protection. Personal tick repellents can be sprayed directly on your skin at the beach or at a friend’s backyard barbecue.

When it comes to the ultimate tick protection at home, choosing a professional tick control company is essential. Reputable tick control companies employ all-natural tick repellents or EPA-registered pesticides all around your home. These formulas are engineered to work for a couple of weeks at a time. The all-natural repellent will help keep ticks away from your yard. The EPA-registered tick control formula will eliminate ticks on contact, and continue killing them with a time-released formula for about three weeks.

What is the best tick protection for dogs?

Informed pet owning families know that a bite from an infected tick can be very dangerous for dogs. Some of the illnesses that dogs can get from an infected tick are Anaplasmosis, Hepatozoonosis, and even Lyme disease. According to Pet Life Today, Some of the best methods of tick protection for dogs are Bayer K9 Advantix and Frontline Plus. In addition to tick protection, I highly recommend heart worm prevention. Heart worms can result from one mosquito bite. Heart worms can be deadly. At the very least, this disease and treatment can leave dogs with lifelong heart problems.

In addition to oral or topical tick protection for dogs, at-home tick control is essential. If you want to ultimately protect your dog from the threat of tick-borne and mosquito-borne illnesses, choose a reputable tick control company to treat your yard.

Year-round tick protection is best for your family and pets.

Ticks are on the rampage in Central Mass. Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise. Year-round tick protection is available from reputable tick control professionals. Adding to professional tick protection sprays, the use of tick tubes will help control the emerging tick population in the spring.

Monster Hyalomma tick spotted in the Netherlands

Central Mass ticks and tick-borne illnesses are a hot topic. Between dog ticks, black-legged ticks, and deer ticks, we have enough to worry about with regard to tick-borne diseases. This monster tick will make you glad that you live in Central MA!

The Hyalomma tick is said to have originated in Iran or the southern part of the former Soviet Union, and it’s making its way throughout parts of Europe, which have not before seen it. Two Hylomma ticks have recently been identified in the Netherlands. I call it a monster tick for a few reasons.

montster tick — *Can you imagine a monster lurking in the Central MA woods?*

Reason #1 the Hyalomma tick is a monster

The size of the Hyalomma tick is literally monster-size! This thirsty blood-sucker is about twice the size of more common ticks in the Netherlands – measuring 1/5″ until it feeds, at which time it measures over 1/2″. We have discussed some nymph ticks that are native to our area, which are about the size of a poppy seed. Can you imagine encountering this big guy?

Hyalomma tick vs sheep tick size — *Take a look at the size difference in a Hyalomma tick versus the sheep tick.*

The second reason I call this tick a monster

Since the Hyalomma tick is native to regions with harsh-desert environmental conditions with few hosts available on which to feed, it has adapted in a truly unusual way. This monster tick will literally chase its host to get its blood meal!

Found in woodlands, dunes, gardens, and meadows, Hyalomma ticks sense body heat, vibrations, or scents of hosts when nearby, and run towards the host to feed on their blood. It is said that they will stalk their hosts for up to 10 minutes, and travel hundreds of feet.

The third reason these ticks are monsters

As with our Central MA native ticks, the Hyalomma tick is a disease carrier and spreader. Most commonly, they spread spotted fever to humans and Equine Piroplasmosis (EP) to horses. Though, they have tested negative for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, common to agricultural workers in eastern Eurpoe, the Mediterranean, parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Protect your family from Central Mass ticks and the diseases they carry with effective tick control measures

While we have not yet be invaded by the monster Hyalomma tick, the ticks that are commonly found here in Central Mass are still monstrous in their own rights. They threaten the health of our families with nasty tick-borne illnesses, such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Babesiosis. As always, your best bet at protection is with total professional Central Mass tick control.

Imagine if doctors in Central Mass denied Lyme disease treatment

For years, a debate has been in the forefront of the Australian medical community. Do they have ticks that cause Lyme disease? Are they continuing misdiagnose or refusing to diagnose and treat Lyme disease for those infected in Australia?

Many physicians and those in the medical community in Australia are still acting under the notion that residents cannot contract Lyme disease from domestic species of ticks. Those, who believe it impossible, believe that there are no domestic instances of Lyme disease – that anyone in Australia with Lyme or “Lyme-like” disease, contracted it from a tick bite received outside of Australia. If you ask me, these folks have blinders on, and their citizens are suffering for their beliefs. This story broke to worldwide attention in 2017.

“Perth-based doctor Hugh Derham diagnosed Ms Bool with Lyme disease after sending her blood tests to Australian…

Meanwhile, Rebecca Bool’s health continued to plummet.

Perth resident, Rebecca Bool, suffered a tick bite while vacationing in Kalbarri over the Christmas holiday in 2014. Even though this tick bite produced an immediate bullseye rash, soreness, and loss of bladder control, the doctors she sought medical attention from, dismissed her symptoms as a simple viral infection, and sent her on her way. Lyme was not a consideration.

Lyme disease bullseye rash — Rebecca Bool immediately presented a bullseye rash after her tick bite – doctors did not investigate

Ms. Bool was so sick and distraught after being dismissed as “not sick” or “mentally ill” that she attempted suicide three months after being bitten by a tick. I wish that Lyme disease didn’t exist in Central Mass, but I am glad that there are effective treatments and ongoing research for those infected!

In 2018, The Lyme Disease Association of Australia began a pilot Lyme study, much to the relief of patients like Rebecca Bool.

Thousands of undiagnosed Lyme disease sufferers in Australia are breathing a collective sigh of relief now that steps have been put into motion to begin properly diagnosing and treating Lyme. This effort will save lives, and give those, who have had little hope for their future, a more positive outlook.

Lyme disease study

Essential tick control in Central Mass

As Central Mass residents, we must all be mindful of effective tick control for our homes and families. Even though we have effective Lyme treatments, it’s much better to offer proper tick protection to our families that to treat this horrible disease. Prevention is key!

Did the U.S. government use ticks as biological weapons?

On July 12, DC lawmakers passed the fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill, which contained an amendment that would require the Department of Defense inspector general to investigate and report whether ticks, mice, and mosquitoes were weaponized with diseases to be used in biological warfare from the 1950’s to the 1970’s.

Lyme disease as biological warfare

There will be an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 confirmed new reports of Lyme disease cases this year. Could our own government have played a part in the mutation and spread of Lyme disease? How can this be possible? Did scientists for the Department of Defense weaponize insects and animals, and were they purposefully or accidentally released into the American population?

Research, development, and possible deployment methodology in the towns of Frederick MD and Southold NY are in question.

Did this happen, and to what extent? Fort Detrick in Maryland housed a laboratory, whose focus was weaponizing insects, such as ticks and mosquitoes, to be used as biological weapons against U.S. enemies. Plum Island, the federally-funded animal disease research facility, is also implicated in the potential development of diseases and animals to be used in biological warfare.

Did the U.S. government weaponize diseased rats and mice?

In 1990, it was said that Fort Detrick had been accused in 1952, of infecting rats and insects, and releasing them in North Korea during the Korean war. At that time, it has since been reported that Fort Detrick labs had the capabilities to breed 130 million Yellow Fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) per month, and inject them with the disease. It is said that these diseased mosquitoes were proposed to be delivered across enemy lines via warheads.

Are Lyme infected ticks biological weapons? — Research into biological warfare could still be used to help protect our soldiers.

In 1969, President Nixon ended biological warfare research, but research in how to protect American soldiers against it could have continued.

Why do we need to know if ticks were used as biological weapons so long ago?

Understanding how Lyme disease might have been developed or mutated to further or more quickly pass to humans could hold the clues to tempering the spread of the disease. To truly grasp the disease we have today, we must understand its evolution. Congressional budget approval could make or break new research into Lyme and developments in how to lessen or eradicate spread of Lyme.

Protect your Central Mass family from the threat of Lyme disease.

Mosquito and tick-borne diseases are a true threat to our families. I always recommending protecting your home and family with Central Mass tick protection and mosquito control. Hire a reputable tick control company to allay your chances of a negative tick encounter, resulting in Lyme disease or other illnesses.

Deer tick fully attaches to man’s eyeball!

Wow! Can ticks really do that?

Just when I thought that I had seen it all when it comes to ticks, I come across a post like this one. Though, Healthline.com states that ticks commonly attach and embed themselves on the groin, behind the knee, under the arm, inside the ear or bellybutton, or in the hair, it looks like this gentleman stumbled upon new tick frontiers when one attached and embedded itself to his eyeball.

Outdoor workers are very susceptible to tick invasions.

small ticks — Small nymph ticks are hard to identify with the naked eye!

Even this vigilant serviceman in Paintsville Lake, Kentucky, who practices proper tick protection while at work, was the perfect tick target! This tiny tick, purported to be no larger than the tip of a writing pen, made its mischievous way right into his eye. He, of course, noticed that something was in his eye. After repeated attempts to rinse out what he thought was some sort of debris, the barely-visible speck was not budging and so painful that he had to seek medical attention. The photos we see in the post are from the eye doctor. Even magnified, this poppy seed-sized tick is difficult to identify!

What can outdoor workers do for personal tick protection?

It is always recommended that those, who work outdoors, practice personal tick safety. Using a repellent, such as DEET or permethrin on your clothing. Wear long sleeves – the less exposed skin, the better! Keep long hair pulled back, and be sure to check for ticks throughout the day, which might be hiding on your body. Per this recent tick eyeball invasion, safety glasses are a great idea whenever possible, even if not required for outdoor workers!

What if you bring home a tick anyway? Read about Central Mass tick removal and testing.

As always, I urge all Central Mass residents to take advantage of professional tick control and protection for their home. Keep your family and pets safe from the threat of ticks by eliminating up to 95% of ticks on your property with an EPA-registered tick control spray.

Beach safety for the whole family, including tick protection

Sadly, we see social media posts like this one, recirculating from last year, which alert us of the potential dangers of a seemingly innocent day of fun at the beach with our children and pets. The beach can be a haven – a place of fun, sunshine, and respite…but we must be vigilant in following important safety tips, including those that protect us from tick bites.

Tick protection is essential – protect your kids and pets from ticks at the beach

*Tick protection is essential, even on the beach!*

It’s easy to assume that we won’t encounter ticks at the beach, as there might not be a lot of grass or wooded areas, but that assumption is incorrect. Ticks do live at the beach, carried there by wildlife, and waiting to take their blood meal from an unsuspecting victim.

Protect yourself, your children, and your pets from ticks at the beach by following these tips:

Do not sit among dunes or grassy areas on the beach
Use permethrin on your clothes, DEET on exposed skin
Keep long hair pulled back
Use tick prevention on your pets
Check towels, clothing, yourselves, your children, and your pets from head to toe when you are ready to leave – repeat when you arrive home
Baths and showers for everyone when you get home, including your pet

What do you do if you find a tick? — ***Here’s what to do if you find a tick !***

Beach safety tips for your dog

Pets can have a great day visiting the beach with us, but there are additional dangers that we might face when bringing Fido on a beach day. I want you to be aware that fleas and ticks are not the only hidden dangers on the beach, as the Facebook post above illustrates.

Have a happy and safe day of fun by following these tips:

Bring lots of fresh water, and a big bowl that won’t turn over
Be mindful of not allowing your dog to ingest saltwater during play (i.e. fetching the ball in the water)
Consider a life vest if your dog likes to go into the water
Bring a cooling mat or cooling vest for your dog, especially if they are a short-nosed (Brachycephalic )
Give your dog a thorough check for fleas and ticks when you are ready to go home
Bathe and re-check your dog when you arrive home, to rid his skin of itchy saltwater residue and irritating sand

*Give your dog a bath after the beach – even if he doesn’t enjoy it!*

Did you know that your dog can suffer paralysis from a tick bite?

As always, I am committed to spreading awareness about tick protection, and the prevention of tick-borne illnesses, such as Lyme disease, in Central Mass and beyond. I hope that you and your family have a fun, safe, and tick-free summer this year with professional tick control around your home and yard!

Ticks are much like Game of Thrones’ Night King!

Ticks are no good for ANYONE. They prey on our families, our pets, and even our livestock. Will you be stuck trying to remove a tick from yourself or a loved one this year, and hope that said tick has not left devastation behind?

As we inch towards the series finale of Game of Thrones, I started thinking about how I might compare Central Mass ticks to the once-feared, mysterious Night King. Here are some comparisons between the two!

Central Mass ticks and the Night King are u-g-l-y, and they ain’t got no alibi!

Most obvious of all, the Night King is hideous and scary looking. The same can be said of ticks! Not only are ticks gross on the outside, but they have a mouthful of hooks that allow them to DIG IN to your flesh, and borrow!

Your sacrifice is required for their reproduction, just like the Night King built his army of Wights!

Female ticks take a few blood meals during their life cycle. They require their last blood meal in order to reproduce, and create more blood-sucking, disease spreading ticks! In search of their blood meal, they will latch on to your flesh, sink their hooks in you, and can transfer very harmful diseases, like Lyme disease.

Tick bites are your blood sacrifice!
Your sacrifice could be Lyme disease!

Central Mass ticks can survive the winter, just like the Night King!

Contrary to popular belief, ticks do not die in winter. Reputable Central Massachusetts tick prevention professionals have solutions, such as tick tubes, which will continue to eliminate ticks “out of season” and control the tick population in your yard during the next spring and summer!

Do ticks survive winter? — Like the Night King, Central Mass ticks easily survive winter!

Don’t say, “Dracarys!” Fire will not help you remove a tick – just like dragonfire won’t kill the Night King!

You do NOT want to burn ticks to get them out of your skin. Never put yourself, your loved one, or your pet in harm’s way by trying to burn a tick to remove it. This cannot end well! How should your remove a tick?

Steel vanquished the Night King, and will help you vanquish your tick!

Tweezer tick removal — Proper tick removal requires tweezers.

Valyrian steel not required! For that matter, please not your most effective weapon will not be a dagger. All you need is a nice pair of tweezers to remove and dispose of your tick.

My goal is always to inform you about the dangers of ticks in Central Mass. The best way to control them, and to keep your family safe, is to prevent them in the first place. As they say, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Ticks CANNOT burrow and move under your skin undetected!

Social media is a blessing and a curse. I use social media to spread Central Mass tick awareness each week, and some of my time is spent debunking viral myths. Sometimes, the information that has been passed, seems like outright fearmongering.

You have probably seen this post, or similar posts circulating on Facebook over the last two years, claiming that ticks can burrow under your skin and move around undetected. I expect that this fallacy will begin making its rounds again soon, if it hasn’t already. Do ticks burrow? Yes. Do they completely move underneath the layers of your skin, crawl around, and spread illness? NO!

Where does tick misinformation come from?

Though the origins of the story are unknown to me, I can only assume that it came from reports surrounding the “seed tick” (slang for a tick in the larval stage of life) a couple of years ago. The CDC posted this photo on their social media, warning of the dangers of nymph ticks, the most likely to spread disease.

ticks can be virtually un-detectable — *Can you see five ticks on this poppy seed muffin?*

The small size of the nymph is alarming, as one tick is about the size of a poppy seed, making them difficult to detect or identify. Nymph ticks are in the second stage of their lives, having taken their first blood meal from animals, such as white-footed mice, often carriers of Lyme Disease, in their larvae stage. Nymph ticks are dangerous – VERY dangerous, often diseased, and ready to make your family or family pet their next blood meal, at which time they can transmit diseases.

Watch this tick burrow into human skin, aided by a “mouth full of hooks!”

Leominster tick protection is essential to your family’s health!

protect your family from ticks — Leominster tick protection is important for your whole family.

With the dangers of an increased tick population in Central Mass, tick control is not an option, but a necessity. I urge you to be proactive in the fight against the spread of tick-borne illnesses, such as Lyme Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Tularemia, and even tick paralysis in dogs. Illnesses contracted from ticks are dangerous in a few ways. Some have terrifying symptoms, such as temporary blindness. Lyme Disease can be misdiagnosed for other diseases, like dementia, and produce lifelong ailments. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is difficult to diagnose, and if not treated properly and early, it can be deadly.

ticks cause Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — *Rash produced by Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever*

If you do find a tick on yourself or a family member, follow the CDC’s recommended tick removal instructions.

Keep your family and guests safe from ticks and the harmful diseases they carry by calling a professional tick control company!

Eradicating dangerous ticks and the diseases they bring throughout Central Massachusetts, even in autumn.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

Thank you for the trust you place in Mosquito Squad.

Also read: Can you get Lyme disease from dog saliva?

Many questions about tick-borne illnesses concern their human impact. But what about our pets?

Dogs only contract Lyme disease from ticks.

How long does it take to become infected with Lyme?

Is my cat susceptible to Lyme infection?

How can you keep ticks away from your dog?

At-home Gardner tick treatment is important for the health and safety of your whole family.

Also read: Can you get Lyme disease from dog saliva?

Also read: How can I protect my dog from Lyme disease?

When it comes to tick prevention, we want to use the most effective methods.

What is the best tick prevention for your family?

What is the best tick protection for dogs?

Also read: Does vinegar repel ticks?

Year-round tick protection is best for your family and pets.

Also read: Are tick-borne disease contagious?

Central Mass ticks and tick-borne illnesses are a hot topic. Between dog ticks, black-legged ticks, and deer ticks, we have enough to worry about with regard to tick-borne diseases. This monster tick will make you glad that you live in Central MA!

Reason #1 the Hyalomma tick is a monster

The second reason I call this tick a monster

The third reason these ticks are monsters

Protect your family from Central Mass ticks and the diseases they carry with effective tick control measures

For years, a debate has been in the forefront of the Australian medical community. Do they have ticks that cause Lyme disease? Are they continuing misdiagnose or refusing to diagnose and treat Lyme disease for those infected in Australia?

“Perth-based doctor Hugh Derham diagnosed Ms Bool with Lyme disease after sending her blood tests to Australian…

Meanwhile, Rebecca Bool’s health continued to plummet.

In 2018, The Lyme Disease Association of Australia began a pilot Lyme study, much to the relief of patients like Rebecca Bool.

Read more: These Lyme symptoms might surprise you!

Essential tick control in Central Mass

Research, development, and possible deployment methodology in the towns of Frederick MD and Southold NY are in question.

Why do we need to know if ticks were used as biological weapons so long ago?

Protect your Central Mass family from the threat of Lyme disease.

Wow! Can ticks really do that?

Outdoor workers are very susceptible to tick invasions.

What can outdoor workers do for personal tick protection?

What if you bring home a tick anyway? Read about Central Mass tick removal and testing.

Tick protection is essential – protect your kids and pets from ticks at the beach

Protect yourself, your children, and your pets from ticks at the beach by following these tips:

Beach safety tips for your dog

Have a happy and safe day of fun by following these tips:

Did you know that your dog can suffer paralysis from a tick bite?

Also read: Where do ticks live in Massachusetts?

Central Mass ticks and the Night King are u-g-l-y, and they ain’t got no alibi!

Your sacrifice is required for their reproduction, just like the Night King built his army of Wights!

Central Mass ticks can survive the winter, just like the Night King!

Don’t say, “Dracarys!” Fire will not help you remove a tick – just like dragonfire won’t kill the Night King!

Steel vanquished the Night King, and will help you vanquish your tick!

Social media is a blessing and a curse. I use social media to spread Central Mass tick awareness each week, and some of my time is spent debunking viral myths. Sometimes, the information that has been passed, seems like outright fearmongering.

Where does tick misinformation come from?

Watch this tick burrow into human skin, aided by a “mouth full of hooks!”

Leominster tick protection is essential to your family’s health!

Also read: Are ticks getting smaller?