Tick Control in Richmond

Name: Mosquito Authority of Richmond, VA
Address: 3200 Milburn Avenue,, Richmond, VA, 23223
Telephone: (804) 602-7833

Professional Tick Treatment for Richmond-Area Yards, Decks & Outdoor Spaces

Ticks don’t announce themselves. They wait in the grass along your fence line, in the leaf litter at the yard’s edge, in the shaded beds your kids and dogs pass through every day. Mosquito Authority of Richmond, VA delivers professional tick control for Richmond homeowners who want their outdoor spaces back. Licensed professionals assess your property, identify where ticks are harboring, and build a treatment plan tailored to your specific conditions.

If ticks return between visits, we will come back, reassess, and retreat at no additional charge. Guaranteed. No long-term contract required to get started.

Ready to take back your yard? Call (804) 602-7833 or request a free quote online. We serve Richmond and surrounding areas including Henrico, Chesterfield, Glen Allen, Mechanicsville, Midlothian, Tuckahoe, Bon Air, and Short Pump.

Three Tick Control Methods, One Tailored Plan

Not every yard has the same tick pressure or the same risk zones. Mosquito Authority of Richmond, VA offers three distinct treatment approaches, and your licensed technician can help determine the right combination for your property.

Tick Barrier Control
A targeted application around your yard’s perimeter and the vegetation zones where ticks hide and wait for a host. This is the foundation of most treatment plans and directly addresses the areas of highest tick activity.

Tick Tubes
Biodegradable tubes filled with treated cotton that mice carry back to their nests. Because ticks feed heavily on mice during early life stages, Tick Tubes help interrupt the tick lifecycle at a key point, working where ticks are most actively breeding, not just where they’re visible.

All-Natural Tick Control
For homeowners who prefer a botanically derived approach, our All-Natural Tick Control uses plant-based treatments designed to reduce tick populations without synthetic chemistry. Results-focused and family-friendly.

Why Store-Bought Products Fall Short

Ticks spend most of their time in dense vegetation, wooded borders, mulched beds, and shaded shrubbery. Consumer sprays cover open surfaces. Routine mowing helps at the margins. Neither reaches the specific zones where ticks are actually active on your property.

A professional assessment identifies those zones by looking at your yard’s particular layout, not by treating every square foot the same way. Tick Tubes go further, targeting the tick-mouse lifecycle connection at the source, something no off-the-shelf product replicates. The result is a plan built for your yard, not a product built for every yard.

Get a Free Tick Control Quote in Richmond

Mosquito Authority of Richmond, VA offers free quotes with no long-term contract required to begin service. One call is all it takes to find out what’s happening in your yard and what it can take to address it.

Call (804) 602-7833 or request your free quote online today. No contracts. No guesswork. Just a plan built for your property.

Tick Activity & Disease Risk in Richmond, VA

Richmond-area homeowners face tick pressure that doesn’t follow a neat seasonal pattern. Suburbanization, abundant deer populations, and ongoing land development have extended tick activity well beyond the warm months across Henrico, Chesterfield, and the broader Richmond region.

Henrico County DPW launched a formal tick surveillance program in Summer 2024, monitoring tick species across public parks in all seasons. The reason: certain species don’t stop when temperatures drop. The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts have identified tick-related illness as an active public health concern, citing the same environmental factors driving year-round activity.

Tick Species Active in the Richmond Area

Three species account for most of the tick-borne disease risk in central Virginia:

Blacklegged Tick (Deer Tick)
The only local species active year-round, including winter. Blacklegged ticks in Henrico can transmit Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and Powassan Virus. Lyme disease risk peaks in early summer when nymphs, small enough to go unnoticed, are most active, per the Virginia Department of Health.

American Dog Tick
Common in grassy and lightly wooded areas throughout the region. American dog ticks can transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Tularemia.

Lone Star Tick
Linked to Alpha-gal syndrome, a condition in which a single bite can lead to an allergy to red meat and other mammalian products. The Chesterfield Health District lists Alpha-gal syndrome alongside Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Babesiosis as tick-borne health concerns for county residents.

Virginia’s Lyme Disease Ranking

Virginia consistently ranks among the top states nationwide for reported Lyme disease cases, per the Virginia Department of Health. For Richmond-area residents whose yards border wooded lots, trail corridors, or the suburban green space that deer move through regularly, that ranking isn’t abstract.

Tick habitat in Henrico and surrounding counties looks a lot like a typical Richmond backyard: tall grass along fence lines, forest edges, leaf litter, mulched garden beds. Professional tick control targets those zones specifically, rather than leaving coverage to chance.

We’re Here to Provide a Backyard Your Family Can Enjoy We work to eradicate mosquitoes and prevent their breeding cycle

Our Guarantee

No Commitments
We provide a no-obligation estimate. After your technician arrives, they will outline the scope of work, price and approach to be used. This way, you never have to worry about surprise charges or hidden fees.
Rooted in Science
Our service is a combination of treatments that break the mosquito's life cycle to prevent breeding habitats and larvae growth. Then, every 21 days we return to repeat the process.
Peace of Mind
With Mosquito Authority, finding a highly trained mosquito professional is quick and easy. Our service guarantee, gives you the peace of mind that should the mosquitoes return, we can be responsive.