ThermacellTick Control Tubes for Yards; Protects Backyards and Properties from Ticks; No Spray, No Granules, No Mess; Environmentally Friendly Alternative to Tick Spray & Tick Repellent

These Tick -Tubes are really very effective..Our home is is planted on a1.75 wooded acre and with my long hair German Shepherd wondering freely on the grounds(along with Sorresto collar) we rarely in the past 6 years have been tic free..And of course us humans benefit from this prevention of tics ..Strongly advise this product if you enjoy your outdoors living

This is the second year I’ve bought the tick control tubes. The directions say to put the tubes where mice may go and that the mice will take the cotton insides to their nest. When the ticks bite the mice the ticks die. Well I of course have no proof of this but I have not found any ticks on my 3 dogs or myself. So I think they are working fine. I do recommend these tick tubes.

Our yard was overrun with ticks. As in, my kids were forbidden to walk on the grass. A short walk from one end of the yard to the other and you'd have no less than 7 or 8 ticks. I refuse to choose between living with toxic chemicals living in my lawn or the ticks, but I was getting pretty desperate. Thankfully I found these tubes which (I think) are working. We have just over an acre in a rural setting with woods lining one side of our property. At the end of the summer I purchased the 24 pack and placed them throughout our property, along the woods, mostly areas that looked like a critter would hang out. This spring I have noticed a SIGNIFICANT reduction in ticks, as in we've only had two ticks so far, and I've actually been allowing my kids to play in the grass. I honestly didn't think they would work, especially since not all of the cotton was taken from all of the tubes, but these are the only difference between this year and last year. I just purchased another box of 24 and set them out today. I say it's worth a try!!

We love tick tube's. It keeps our tick population in check and allows us and our pets to remain tick free without applying harsh chemicals to our skin.

Not sure the effectiveness of this alone, however,this combined with other methods it helped. Does nothing for the turkey tick thom

I've used this product for 4 years now and it works wonderfully. I used to have a huge tick problem and this product kills them all. There's no odor, it's easy to distribute through the lawn, it's much lower cost than professional tick treatment, and it lasts all summer long.

These were developed by the Harvard School of Public Health to help control the deer tick population in endemic areas. It will take about 1-2 years to reap the benefits but they do work. For where I live I put out my first set of tubes in April - May, the second set in June - July. This coincides with their breeding cycles. It targets the ticks by using mice, they are the secondary host & reservoir for Lyme disease causing bacteria. Mice like nice fluffy material to make nice cozy nests. The chemical transfers from the treated material in the tube to the mouse. If a tick attaches to the mouse it will die, but the mouse is fine. A passive approach to help reduce Lyme disease which is absolutely no picnic! I do highly recommend this product. If you’ve ever had Lyme (I have) it can be extremely debilitating. I never ever want to get Lyme again and these will help I’m all in.

It's going to be hard to judge the overall affecteness of this product as it may take time to see if this works. I have seen ticks in my yard before and I am using this in conjunction with periodic yard spray. I placed these around my yard in areas where mice would be found , with the assumption the mice will take the treated cotton in the tube and use it to make a nest. The treated cotton will then transfer to the mice and then kill ticks on them. I'm not 100% sold this will be effective for protecting my yard and family as I imagine ticks that are already on mice wouldn't necessarily fall off anyway if there feeding on the mice. Either way this was very simple to apply, just lay the tubes in certain areas in your yard and that's it. I look at this as another layer of protection and not a one stop solution.