Owning pets can be a very wonderful thing. They are there for us on days that we are down, and they're always ready to lend an ear when we need it. Some dogs are so protective of their owners that they're ready to lay down their lives, if need be, to keep their owner safe. While we love our pets and do everything that we can to keep them healthy, there are times when things that they do may not keep us healthy, and one of those things is bringing pests into our homes. You can be sure to guard your home against pests with EcoFirst Pest Control.

Summer Pests and Pets

During the winter most animals tend to stay indoors. Cats hesitate to put their delicate and dainty paws out on the cold ground, and dogs like to stay inside where it's warm. During the summer months, however, most pets like nothing better than to run and play in the green grass and woods. But the grass and the woods are notorious for hiding one thing: pests. People who have pets who go out in the summer months are often horrified to find that they are unexpectedly dealing with an infestation of pests, like fleas. Fleas are tiny little bugs that seem harmless, but that really aren't.

Fleas survive on blood. They find a host and they live off of the host, sucking blood and then, later, laying eggs so that more fleas can emerge. The lifecycle of the flea is definitely strange, as the female flea can lay over fifty eggs per day, and can continue to do so for months. The eggs turn into larva very quickly and then the larva turns into a cocoon. The flea can then emerge from the cocoon anywhere from three to five days or many months, depending on the environment that the flea is in.

So what does this mean to the average homeowner? It means that no matter how hard you try to keep fleas off of your pets, the chance that the fleas, and flea eggs, larva, and pupa, are still in your home is pretty good. That's why so many pet owners find that they're still dealing with fleas months after they've treated their pets. The eggs that were laid by the adult fleas may not have hatched yet.

So how do you get rid of fleas when they've got such an erratic life cycle? One of the best ways is to get a little help. EcoFirst Pest Control can help you to get control of almost any pest population in your home, even that of fleas. Their experts know all about the lifecycle of the flea and how to break that cycle. They have special products, even botanical, toxic-free products that are designed to kill the fleas no matter what stage of the lifecycle they're in. This means that once the pets are treated, and the home is treated by EcoFirst Pest Control, the fleas you had will be history.