Fleas are household pests that your Broken Arrow pest control can help you eliminate. They are wingless insects that feed on blood but can also survive for months without feeding. Fleas use a saw-like mandible to cut through the accessible parts of the skin like the feet and legs. Their saliva contains an anticoagulant that keeps the blood flowing. Female adult fleas lay eggs after feeding. The eggs are light-colored and oval in shape. After hatching into larvae, they spin a cocoon where they hide themselves for a few weeks. Vibrations from the footsteps of potential host animals make the adult flea emerge from the cocoon after developing. Contact your Broken Arrow pest control to assist in removing these pests from your home and protecting your pets from them.
Fleas life cycle
The life cycle of a flea contains four different sections. The first section is the egg. This egg is laid by the female adults and is laid at the base of the fur of a host animal. As the host scratches, these eggs will fall off. What they do is they’ll wait for vibration to come near which signals them that there’s a host animal possibly nearby. Then the eggs hatch and the larva will emerge. This larva will eat everything and cool fleet dirt.
Flea dirt is the droppings the adult then falls off as the animal scratches. This will give the flea not only bits of undigested blood to consume but also the enzymes needed to fill their gut enzymes so they’re ready to consume their own blood. After this larva passes this stage, It will develop all the adult parts of its body. It will be necessary and needed. Then once it’s ready, it will wait again for the heat and vibration of a host nearby to emerge as a full-grown adult. Contact your Broken Arrow pest control for help with fleas.
Eliminating Fleas by Broken Arrow Pest Control
In order to get rid of fleas, it’s important that you have a schedule built to take care of them. These four life cycles protect them from many different forms of pesticides. The first stage, a protective covering, is impenetrable by pesticides which means that you have to get these fleas to move their life cycles in order to get them to come in contact with pesticides. Vacuuming can mimic the vibration of a host animal nearby. So often when we treat, we recommend vacuuming to our clients. In addition, you’ll need to treat multiple times in order to kill every generation of fleas. You may need to treat it both on the inside and outside of your home as well. Your exterminator can help you with these kinds of things. Contact your exterminator for help with fleas. Check out our reviews!
If you’re having trouble with fleas or any other pests, then it’s time to call your Broken Arrow pest control who can help you. Here at TermMax pest control, we are the best in the business when it comes to dealing with fleas, or any other pests. We service the greater Tulsa area, including Broken Arrow, Coweta, Claremore, Catoosa, Owasso, Turley, Bixby, and Jenks. Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Prattville, and so much more. Call today for a free estimate. We’re here to help!