Ticks have become a real problem in Connecticut as their population keeps growing. The 2 most common types of ticks found in Connecticut are the black legged ticks (often called deer ticks) and Dog ticks.
Deer ticks can cause Lyme's disease, and annually there are around 3,000 reported cases of human Lyme's disease each year. Dog ticks can carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. This disease can be fatal if it isn't treated right away with and antibiotic. But, thankfully, those cases are extremely rare in Connecticut.
While you can never fully eliminate ticks in your backyard, there are many steps you can take to reduce, prevent and control ticks in your backyard as you'll see in that article. And, contrary to what most people believe, deer are not the key carrier of deer ticks. While preventing deer in your back yard may be helpful for many reasons, that will not take care of tick problems. Rather, it's preventing small rodents on your lawn such as mice, chipmunks and squirrels, and if you haven't noticed, they are really just about everywhere.
Best ways to reduce tick populations include keeping a well maintained lawn, reducing weeds and keeping areas clean that may attract rodents (e.g. weedy areas, overgrown bushes, wood piles, leaf piles, etc. You can read more about this and other tick prevention tips in this article.