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Tick Trouble Spurs Home Pest Advice From University Expert
Dr. Richard F. Darsie of the University of Delaware provides tick prevention tips for families and pets as warm weather returns. He recommends careful tick removal with tweezers, daily checks behind ears and folds of skin, and offers DDT or chlordane treatments and sprays for infested areas to prevent Rocky Mountain spotted fever carried by the American dog tick.
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Richard F. Darsie
Department of Entomology
University of Delaware