Smithfield Flea and Tick Control: Can You Do It Yourself, or Should You Call a Professional?
If you’ve ever spent time looking up solutions for a pest problem, you’ve probably come across all kinds of recommendations for DIY treatments. However, as easy as these solutions may seem online, they can end up being costly, time-intensive, and even ultimately ineffective. Professional pest control treatments, however, like those available from Mosquito Squad, are much more reliable and can help keep pests out for longer.
Do You Have a Flea Infestation?
Fleas are tiny, but if you’re a pet owner, you likely already know that they can cause big issues. Their bites can cause health problems for cats, dogs, and their owners. An infestation will usually announce itself when you or your pets are incessantly itchy, and in some pets, that discomfort is exacerbated by an allergic reaction. All that scratching can lead to secondary infections, resulting in hair loss and bleeding for your pets. Fleas are also associated with multiple diseases, including tapeworm and flea-borne typhus, and are carriers for the pathogen that causes cat scratch disease.
Other signs of a flea infestation include the presence of small, black specks in your pet’s fur or around their bedding, red, itchy bumps on your skin, or even the sight of fleas actively jumping on your pets or around your home. Plenty of people have ideas for how to manage them, but fleas have adapted to be particularly good at evading attempts to get rid of them. They have a long, complex life cycle, reproduce quickly, and live for up to 100 days.
In addition to treating your pets regularly with flea prevention medication, the next best option for taking care of a flea infestation quickly and thoroughly is a professional treatment. Mosquito Squad has powerful options for Smithfield flea control so that you and your furry companions can enjoy your home in comfort.
Warm Weather Means Tick Activity
Pet owners have another enemy to grapple with in warm weather: ticks. They tend to hang out in tall grasses and wooded areas, and when potential hosts pass by – like pets, large animals, or humans – they’ll crawl on and hitch a ride. They may latch onto their hosts for up to ten days, and during that time, their host is left vulnerable to a variety of diseases. Some of the most common are Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and anaplasmosis.
There are some precautions you can take to limit your exposure to ticks and the diseases they carry. If you’re a pet owner, you’ll need to keep your pets up to date on their tick prevention medication. And even if you don’t have a pet, you’ll want to make sure you cover up when you spend a lot of time outdoors, use repellent, and complete a thorough check of your body when you return inside.
For even better protection, however, Mosquito Squad can help. Our Smithfield tick control solutions are proven effective, and our treatments can deter ticks from your property after each application.
Try Our Squad Yard Defender Package
For those looking for the ultimate pest control solution for common outdoor pests, our Squad Yard Defender Package is the answer. With Yard Defender, flea and tick control is easy, and even better, it’ll help with other pests, too, including mosquitoes, spiders, no-see-ums, and more. It can also help protect you and your pets by breaking the lifecycle of fleas and other pests before they become a bigger problem.
The Yard Defender package includes our 3-step approach for effective and reliable pest control, beginning with an inspection of your property to identify the places where pests thrive. We’ll then target these areas with a treatment that disrupts lifecycles and keeps pests away. With ongoing management thanks to our subscription plans, you’ll be able to take the worry of pest control off your plate.
For dependable outdoor pest control near you, call on the professionals at Mosquito Squad. Call (757) 300-1839 or contact us online for a complimentary Smithfield pest control assessment and quote.
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