Flea & Tick Control 2018-04-12T15:56:11+00:00

FLEA & TICK CONTROL

If your pets have fleas and/or ticks, you have no doubt gone to great lengths to treat them and to control the fleas and ticks. You have probably vacuumed the house and car from top to bottom, and washed everything in sight in your efforts to get rid of these pesky blood sucking parasites. But there is yet another step you will need to take to make sure all your efforts are worthwhile.

Many people forget that their pests spend time outside in the yard. If your dog or cat spends a lot of time outdoors, this will be where the majority of the flea population is also living. Even if you have treated your pet for fleas, the problem may persist because the fleas still have a proximal advantage to your home. And remember, fleas can live on your blood too, not just your pets. So, along with the inside of the house, you will need to give the yard some attention in order to bring an infestation under control.

Here are 10 curious facts about those pesky fleas.

1. Fleas have four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, biting adult.

2. Fleas feed on the blood of their host — humans, birds, reptiles, and wild and domestic animals.

3. The female flea can lay 2,000 eggs in her lifetime.

4. A flea can live more than 100 days without a blood meal.

5. The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.

6. A flea can jump up to 8 inches high, or approximately 150 times its own height. That’s like if you could leap over tall buildings in a single bound.

7. Pets with fleas may develop anemia, tapeworms or intense bouts of itching (pruritus).

8. Some pets may develop an allergy to flea saliva, which causes severe irritation and itchiness.

9. The best way to check for fleas is with a flea comb.

10. Even though there are more than 2,000 known species and subspecies of fleas, one flea species — the cat flea — accounts for most of the dog and cat flea cases found in the U.S.

At NativeGreen we will evaluate your situation and come up with a plan to effectively take care of the issue.

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