{"id":21219,"date":"2021-04-07T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:59:31","slug":"tip-8-move-leaf-piles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-8-move-leaf-piles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #8: Keep leaf piles for jumping in the middle of the yard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kids and dogs seem to just LOVE jumping into\u00a0<strong>freshly raked leaves<\/strong>\u00a0in the Fall. It\u2019s an adventure full of joy, and you can make it a bit more carefree by piling freshly fallen leaves for jumping into out in the middle of yards. The type of tick most (>80%) people and pets encounter in Fall are\u00a0<strong>adult stage blacklegged ticks.<\/strong>\u00a0Those ticks are\u00a0<strong>NOT<\/strong>\u00a0up in trees but\u00a0<strong>ARE<\/strong>\u00a0hanging from low shrubs and tall grasses on the perimeter of yards and woodland trails. When raking leaf piles for jumping into, don\u2019t use leaves from the yard edges. Instead, leave about a 5 foot leafy border, to be cleaned up and removed with a bit more care. And ALWAYS do a quick\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/tick-check-cards\">tick check<\/a>\u00a0once the jumping is over, especially checking the head, hairline, and behind the ears.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-share-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-share color  \"><div class=\"cl-share-label\">Share:<\/div><ul class=\"cl-share-buttons\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Tip #8: Keep leaf piles for jumping in the middle of the yard&amp;url=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-8-move-leaf-piles\/\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"cl-share-twitter share-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-8-move-leaf-piles\/\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"cl-share-facebook share-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids and dogs seem to just LOVE jumping into\u00a0freshly raked leaves\u00a0in the Fall. It\u2019s an adventure full of joy, and you can make it a bit more carefree by piling freshly fallen leaves for jumping into out in the middle of yards. The type of tick most (>80%) people and pets encounter in Fall are\u00a0adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":21225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticksmart-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21228,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions\/21228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}