Carpets, tile, floor rugs and even joints between wood flooring can become a home for fleas. Fleas can also find a home in furniture cushions and pet pillows. Metro Guard has the expertise to eliminate fleas and tick from your home or business. Pre-adult fleas can make up as much as 99% of a flea population. It is important to control not just the adult fleas, but all four stages of a flea infestation. Metro Guard uses high quality products that impact fleas and ticks in all stages. We apply growth regulators to keep pre-adult fleas from maturing and breeding. Our products can control fleas or ticks for up to seven months. Treating is a simple process but it requires the customer’s help in a few areas before service:

Flea is the common name for a small wingless insect. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds.

In most cases, fleas are just a nuisance to their hosts, but some people and some animals suffer allergic reactions to flea saliva resulting in rashes.

Flea bites generally result in the formation of a slightly-raised swollen itching spot with a single puncture point at the center.

To deal with a home infestation one needs to break the life cycle of the fleas and kill off the breeding age individuals which will otherwise produce a new generation within about 10-18 days.

It is a common misconception that the tick can jump from the plant onto the host. Physical contact is the only method of transportation for ticks. They will generally drop off of the animal when full, but this may take several days. Ticks contain a structure in their mouth area that allows them to anchor themselves firmly in place while sucking blood. Pulling a tick out forcefully may squeeze contents of the tick back into the bite and often leaves the mouthpiece behind, which may result in infection.