Here you can findout how to protect yourself from ticks, the types of ticks to look out for and safe procedure for dealing with a tick bite. 

Additional information about tick monitoring, control and NCSWCD tick surveying can be found below.

Protecting yourself from Ticks

The #1 way to protect yourself and your pets from ticks is to check every time you come back from an area that may contain ticks. Stay on the trail!  Most ticks wait on plants surrounding fields and on trail edges to jump onto a host, stay clear of walking into areas with plants that will brush up against you. When ticks are not "questing" on plants they rehydrate under leaves in the woods, ticks need moisture to survive. The best way to avoid ticks is walking in dry/hot areas with little vegetation, on trails, mowed grass, and areas without plants growing above ankle height. 

 Tips for avoiding ticks

• Wear light colored clothing to help spot ticks, long sleeve shirt and pants tucked into socks when walking in tick exposed areas. 

• Treating Clothin with 0.5% Premethrin will repel ticks and last for multiple washes.

• To kill remaingin ticks on clothing dry clothes after returning home. Tumble clothing on high heat for 10 minutes will kill any ticks still remaining after your initial check. Dry before you wash, ticks will die from a lack of moisture in the drier. 

• Shower using a wash cloth to dislodge unattached ticks, and thouroughly check yourself when you shower over the next 48 hours