{"id":25137,"date":"2023-04-19T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?page_id=25137"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:02:59","slug":"is-tick-control-helping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/is-tick-control-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"IS TICK CONTROL HELPING? (Project ITCH)"},"content":{"rendered":"

DO YOU TREAT YOUR YARD FOR TICKS?<\/strong><\/p>SIGN uP for project ITCH here<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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If you live in southern Rhode Island, scientists from The University of Rhode Island need your help in a tick research project. We\u2019re looking for homeowners who will be doing some form of residential tick control this next spring<\/strong>. It could be sprays, granules, or host-targeted control\u2014professionally-applied or Do-it-Yourself. The goal of the project is to determine if the tick control a homeowner does is helping reduce the number of ticks in their yard (Project ITCH\u2014I<\/strong>s T<\/strong>ick C<\/strong>ontrol H<\/strong>elping?). Participation in the study involves completing an on-line survey and giving permission for our research team to visit your yard up to 2 times during late May-early July 2025, the third year of the study.  During our visits we will collect (and remove) ticks from tick habitat areas around your yard.  All ticks will be identified and a sub-sample of collected ticks will be tested for disease-causing germs. We will share our findings with participating homeowners in the Fall and complete results will be available at the conclusion of our study. Participation will help inform and improve future tickborne disease prevention efforts in the northeast US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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