Deer ticks, (Ixodes dammini), become carriers of Lyme disease by feeding on field mice. The nymphal stage of the tick is particularly dangerous to people because it is tiny – the size of a pinhead – and active in the spring and early summer when people are outdoors.

Mice like to make nests of soft natural materials. DamminiX tick tubes contain fluffy cotton treated with permethrin – highly only toxic to ticks. The mice collect the cotton; the treated cotton kills the ticks.