I’m in a rural area. For the last 3 years, we’ve had ticks. It was bad last year. Supposed to be really bad this year. I’m spraying permethrin this year. Unless someone here has a better idea..
Tick tubes are toilet paper rolls filled with permethrin soaked cotton balls. Rodents collect the cotton balls to use as nesting material which kills the nymph ticks that live on them before they can mature into adults. You put then out in early spring and again in summer. You can either make them yourself (much cheaper) or buy them ready made.