Hello World! Welcome Friends! With snow on the ground during winter, spring and summer may seem far away, but your pets will appreciate your planning ahead for a healthy lawn. Grooming a healthy lawn requires more than mowing, edging, and planting gardens. It also needs pest control.
Flea and Tick Control
If you think of the gopher on the golf course in the Bill Murray movie, “Caddyshack,” when you think of lawn pests, try picturing fleas and ticks jumping on your pets instead. Massachusetts experiences all four seasons, and with them, the good and the bad of each. Spring and summer bring flea and tick season to our area, but a quick, preemptive search for “pest control near me” can stop the problem before it starts.
How Ticks and Fleas Travel
You might associate summer with vacation, and so do ticks and fleas. Getting inside your house and the homes of your neighbors provides these pests with an experience akin to Disneyland. A flea or tick needs to jump onto your bunny, cat, or dog, and then ride them into your home. According to A-Z-animals.com, once indoors, they jump off onto carpets, furniture, drapes, etc., and breed, laying eggs that hatch with an infestation that requires professional pest removal.
Mating Rituals of Fleas and Ticks
Fleas like to mate on a full stomach. They eat blood. When a flea jumps on your pet or you, it bites, drinking blood. It then hops along to find a mate or lay eggs if it has already mated. One flea lays about 50 eggs at a time.
Ticks differ a bit. If a single tick rides in on your pet or you, it may need to wait for a mate. Unless it entered your home pregnant and lays eggs there, it needs another tick to create an infestation. Patient ticks can wait weeks or months for another of their kind to come along. Once they meet a mate, they lay thousands of eggs. The male dies soon after mating.
Cold Weather Doesn’t Harm Them
According to PetMD, winter weather does not kill fleas or ticks. These resilient creatures simply enter a dormant phase, patiently waiting for warmer temperatures. That’s why during winter, homeowners should continue their flea and tick control in Weymouth, MA. Don’t wait for hundreds or thousands of tiny bugs to jump on your pet or you! In winter, the eggs of these creatures lie beneath the snow, waiting for spring to hatch.
Treating the Problem
Every six to eight weeks, have the yard sprayed with pesticide. Most pest control companies offer eco-friendly options. Use flea and tick treatments and collars on your pets, and always wear a DEET-containing insecticide when spending time outdoors.
If you don’t treat these creatures preventatively, you will need to first kill the adults and eggs. If they have infested your home, this requires professional treatment of the home, washing the bedding and other linens, and treating the pets and the yard. Ban fleas and ticks from your home and yard with preventative measures, so you and your pets can enjoy your home.
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