Targeted yard applications to break the tick lifecycle. Critical for wooded lots, waterfront properties, and homes with kids or dogs that play outside.
If your yard backs up to woods, a field, or tall grass, ticks are more than a nuisance — they're carried in by deer, rodents, and other wildlife, and they're known to transmit diseases that affect both people and pets. EnviroCare's tick service treats the yard where ticks live and wait, so your family and animals can be outside with a lot less worry, across Birmingham, Huntsville, and the Lake Martin area.
Ticks don't set up in the open lawn. They wait in the shaded, humid edges of a property — wooded borders, leaf litter, tall grass, ground cover, and along fence lines — then latch on to whatever brushes past. Wildlife and neighborhood pets bring fresh ticks in constantly, which is why a single DIY spray rarely makes a lasting dent. Our treatment focuses on exactly those harborage zones: the wood line, leaf-litter areas, tall grass, and shaded borders where ticks actually congregate.
In central Alabama the mix is mostly lone star and American dog ticks, and lone star bites are the ones linked to alpha-gal syndrome, the red-meat allergy. Alabama ticks are also associated with Rocky Mountain spotted fever and ehrlichiosis; Lyme disease does occur in the Southeast, though spotted fever and ehrlichiosis are the better-documented risks in this region. Most tick bites transmit nothing, and none of this is meant to alarm — it is simply why cutting down tick encounters in your own yard, checking kids and pets after they've been outside, and removing an attached tick promptly are all worth taking seriously.
Tick control is a seasonal yard treatment, most often run alongside our mosquito program as a combined mosquito + tick service through the season (roughly March through October). One honest note, same as with mosquitoes: we can't guarantee zero ticks, because wildlife reintroduces them constantly. What our program reliably does is significantly reduce tick pressure around your property so the yard is far safer to use. We use EPA-registered products applied strictly according to label directions.
Why this matters more than comfort: Alabama ticks are associated with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, and alpha-gal syndrome — the red-meat allergy linked to lone star tick bites. Lyme disease gets the headlines nationally and does occur in the Southeast, though the better-documented risks in this region are spotted fever and ehrlichiosis. None of that is meant to alarm — most tick bites transmit nothing — but it is why reducing tick encounters in your own yard is worth taking seriously, and why prompt, careful tick removal and a tick check after time outdoors matter for your family and your pets.
Pricing: tick control is most commonly delivered as the mosquito + tick yard program — about $65 per month, roughly eight treatments March through October. That option also covers chiggers, but does not cover fleas (a separate interior-access service). Want tick coverage on its own or a one-time treatment? Call and we'll quote it for your property.
