
American Dog Ticks. © Brendan Burke, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC). https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83084643
Then let us come survey your property this summer to count ticks, butterflies, and bees. We’re launching a new backyard tick research project in the Upper Valley (and beyond) of Vermont and New Hampshire, and we’re looking for upwards of 50 properties to join our study. If you have your property chemically sprayed (or fogged) for ticks with either traditional pesticides, organic essential oils, or other products then we will biologically survey your property before and immediately after the companies spray your yard.
[May 10th Update: Following my interview on Vermont Public, newspaper stories, listservs and Daybreak (thanks Rob) the response has been overwhelming–thank you all! At this point we’re mainly looking for additional properties where folks spray for ticks]. Here’s a flyer that you can post, or drop off at houses with the ‘just sprayed’ yard signs to help spread the word about this research project.