but if you’d prefer it didn’t dig up little sections of your lawn or eat your birdseed, you might want to know how to get rid of shrews in the yard. First, let’s make sure you’ve properly ...

It turns out that, at least on Martha's Vineyard, it is the shrews who harbor the most disease-bearing young ticks, says Heidi Goethert, Sc.D., J93, research assistant professor at Cummings School.