Spring has sprung
Flowers are coming up
and no more snow on the ground.
Your animals get to go out and play in the yard
and your house is infested with fleas.
Questions about fleas!
I love talking about fleas, actually.
I mean, they're not fun to have
but they're interesting
Fleas like it where it is
warm and moist
and remember even in
places like Iowa where it gets very cold in the winter
your house is warm inside.
People always think it's spring.
Like that's when the fleas come out
but most people are aware of that
and use flea prevention.
The worst time for fleas is
gonna be September October.
When'd you put the flea medicine on last?
I put it on at the first a month.
First of this month?
Oh wait.
Keeping your animals on a flea prevention
is the best thing you can do.
None of those things like the
sonic
I'm going to use a sonic blast
and it's going to keep all the fleas
No it's not.
It doesn't work.
Just stop it.
Three easy installments of $19.99
just send me one easy installment of $19.99
and it will be equally as effective at getting rid of fleas.
Once you've got an infestation of
fleas in your house it can be difficult
to get rid of.
So it's probably a good time
Let's talk about flea life cycle.
Flea life cycle, yay.
The flea life cycle is a lot like
the butterfly life cycle.
Most people know that.
You have the adults and the adults lay the eggs.
Mow the adult flea lives on the animal --
on the cat or the dog
They spend all their time on there
and then they have their little good times
and they have some eggs.
The egg laid fall off into the environment.
Those eggs then hatch
and become the
caterpillars or larvae
and they'll live in the grass or in the carpet
depending on where you are.
Maybe even in your couch.
And they are little teeny tiny things.
You can't see them.
then they become the pupae
and that would be like the chrysalis with the butterfly.
And then they hatch into a beautiful
flea.
The thing to remember about the lifecycle is
if you're treating your animal that's
only killing the adults
cuz that's what lives on the animal.
So you also have to treat the environment.
You want to make sure that the eggs don't hatch
and some of the topical medication
and some of the pills actually have
something in there so that the eggs won't hatch.
But you also want to try to kill those larvae
and there's a lot of
products out there that will help kill
those larvae as well.
When they're in the pupa stage
there isn't anything that's
going to kill them
So the important thing to remember about this
is that when your animal has an infestation
by the time you notice it
you probably got six weeks of fleas
that have been living on your animal and in your house.
That means you have six weeks of pupae
that have to hatch
jump on the animal and die
because of the treatment that you've used on your animal.
So it could take a long time to
get rid of an infestation.
It's not going to be gone the next day.
The average flea lifecycle
if everything is going really well
is probably like three weeks
you know then you get new fleas up.
But they can stay in that pupa stage for a long time
months and months
so it could be an
apartment that was
That had fleas in it and
and was vacant for several months and
then you come in and you're walking
around that apartment
and now fleas are jumping on you
and it's because of the
vibrations and the co2 that you're putting out
that the pupae are like, "Oooh
time to come out and get a meal
but there's no dog or cat there
so they're going to jump on you
Next best thing.
I wonder how often scooby doo got fleas because
they were like all the time
going into like old abandoned houses
maybe that's why you always like nothing
"Rut roh, we gotta get out of here"
Thanks for watching everyone.
I hope you're as interested in fleas as I am
and I hope you know just as much as I do now.
You don't.
But thanks for watching.
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