TL;DR
A tick perimeter treatment is a targeted acaricide application along the transition zones where lawns meet woods, tall grass, stone walls, and leaf litter, the humid edges where ticks quest for hosts. Because ticks rarely cross sunny mowed turf, treating the band a few feet either side of these edges controls most of the population without blanketing the yard.
What it means
A tick perimeter treatment is a targeted acaricide application along the transition zones where lawns meet woods, tall grass, stone walls, and leaf litter, the humid edges where ticks quest for hosts. Because ticks rarely cross sunny mowed turf, treating the band a few feet either side of these edges controls most of the population without blanketing the yard. Applications are timed to nymph activity in late spring and often repeated for fall adults, with granular or liquid pyrethroids and natural alternatives in use.
Where it sits in the glossary
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Why Ohio homeowners should know it
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