Tick tubes are small cardboard tubes stuffed with cotton batting treated with specialized permethrin, a commonly used insecticide extracted from the chrysanthemum flower that kills ticks but is safe ...

This insecticide can help prevent some mosquito and tick bites. But you must use it properly. Permethrin-treated clothing—designed to kill or disable bugs upon contact—has been available to ...

Tick bites can cause several dangerous illnesses ... or to pre-treat clothing with a chemical called permethrin.