Flea control and treatment

Information about fleas

Get rid of fleas and don’t let your beloved pet suffer

Flea infestations are associated with household pets such as cats and dogs as our pets mainly considered as part of the family. To ensure effective control of fleas, the client must first understand the few simple guidelines about the flea life cycle and flea treatments to their pets.

Cat and dog flea

Characteristics:
Adult fleas are about 1/8 of an inch long, brownish-black in colour, and after a blood meal reddish-black. The body is laterally flattened allows it to easily move through an animal hair. They also have small transverse spines, which projected backwards allows them to hold and host onto the hair of your pets. These small transverse spines make it hard to remove fleas from your pets enabling themselves to be transported from room to room or pet to pet, biting, irritating and breeding where ever they go.

Habits:
Fleas in general require warm humid conditions and develop large populations. Usually during wet spring and summer months large outbreaks occur. As the fleas eggs can lay dormant in and around the home, It is most common when people return from holiday’s a silent home become noisy causing flea eggs to hatch.

Lifecycle

The adult female can lay 4-8 eggs after a blood feed. Many hundreds can be laid in a life time. Most eggs are laid on a host and usually fall off, they can be distributed in virtually all areas visited by the host. Flea eggs are more abundant around animal sleeping quarters. Eggs usually hatch in 2-14 days and the larvae feed on available organic material such as crumbs, human skin scales, and debris that may accumulate mostly furniture, carpets, pets bedding, cracks between floorboards, lawns and under buildings.

The feeding period for flea larvae is usually 15 days. The larva spins a silken cocoon, to which it will adhere to particles of dust, soil. The larva pupates in the cocoon and the life cycle can take as little as 18 days and / or up to a year in less favourable conditions. Adults can live up to 500 days and will endure long periods without food.

Method of Treatment for Ants:
There are a few procedures the client will have to undertake to insure an effective treatment and ongoing control. Maintaining the environment and regular pet treatments are critical. Floor surfaces, subfloor areas and surrounding grounds will have to be blanket sprayed with insecticide and an effective growth inhibitor.

Be patient! When treatment has been applied correctly, you may still see young newly hatched fleas, sometimes for several weeks. Movement hatches fleas, more information will be supported by our technician at the time of treatment.

Do not vacuum or wash floors after treatment for at least seven days. Remove vacuumed debris, place in a bag and into bin.

At All Bugs our licensed technicians can assist you with a flexible, tailored solution to suit your individual needs we can prevent all pests from becoming a problem in your home or workplace. Please contact us to help you maintain an environment free of pests. Please call (07)3324 0111 to make an appointment.