Flea Control In Lutherville-Timonium, MD

Keep Fleas Out Of Your Lutherville-Timonium Home

When you think about pest control in Lutherville-Timonium and the surrounding areas, there's only one name you need to know: Miche Pest Control. We listen to your concerns about pests; then, we make sure we can alleviate them. We're a customer oriented company doing home pest control in Lutherville-Timonium, MD. Our highly-trained technicians don't just eliminate the pests you have – we also protect your home against other pests with our outside treatment of your yard. We do pest control the right way.

How Dangerous Is It To Have Fleas In My Lutherville-Timonium Home?

Fleas in Lutherville-Timonium feed on mammals' blood. Their preferred hosts are cats, deer, dogs, rabbits, raccoons, rodents, and skunks, but they're not above feeding on humans. When they bite, their saliva enters the wound, which is what causes the itchy welts and rashes they leave behind. The more allergic you are to flea saliva, the stronger your reaction will be. If you scratch too much, you open yourself to a secondary infection.

Fleas are also known as disease vectors. They carry several diseases, including:

• Bartonellosis
• Bubonic plague
• Murine typhus
• Tapeworm
• Tularemia
• Tungiasis

If you find that your pets, yard, or home are infested with these insects, you need professional flea control immediately. Fleas are hard to prevent and even harder to eliminate. You need help from Miche Pest Control to get rid of fleas for good.

What To Do If You Have A Flea Problem In Your Lutherville-Timonium Home

If you have a flea problem in your Lutherville-Timonium home, you have some work to do to get rid of them. Fleas have a long life cycle, and at some stages of their life, they're resistant to flea control products.

Here's what you need to do:

• Do a lot of laundry. You need to wash your bedding, your pets' bedding, and your rugs. You also need to sweep and vacuum thoroughly, including getting right up to the walls, so break out the vacuum attachments. 
• Treat your pets for fleas. Talk to your veterinarian about how to treat your pets for fleas. You'll likely need to bathe your pets with a flea control product, then comb them with a flea comb. Make sure you get their face and neck, and around their tail. 
• Treat your home. You need to start professional flea pest control at the same time you start treating your pets. At Miche Pest Control, we know which products to use inside your home and in your yard to have the best effect on the flea population. 

Follow up is important when treating for fleas to make sure that infestations don't reoccur. Keep doing laundry, sweeping, and vacuuming. Keep washing and combing your pets. Miche Pest Control will ensure treatments for fleas at all stages of their lives. Contact us today to get a free estimate.

Tips And Strategies For Lutherville-Timonium Residents To Keep Fleas Off Of Your Property

Keeping fleas off your property is a matter of making your yard uninviting for these insects. Here are several steps to make that happen:

• Mow your lawn, but don't mow it too short. Two to three inches is ideal because it's short enough to deter fleas, who prefer long grass but long enough to let spiders and ants, which feed on fleas, thrive.
• Clean up your yard. Get rid of piles of brush, leaves, and trash from around the edges of your yard since those all give fleas somewhere to hide and lay eggs. A female flea can lay 2,000 eggs in her 100-day lifetime.
• Don't overwater your yard, flowerbeds, or garden. Excess moisture can be attractive to fleas. 
• Trim bushes and trees to let the sun shine on as much of your yard as possible. 
• Use cedar mulch in your flower beds and garden. Cedar is a natural flea repellant. 
• Keep wildlife out of your yard. Eliminate sources of food, water, and harborage. 

In addition to these steps, it's also a good idea to engage professional flea control for your yard to apply products that will prevent fleas from coming onto your property. When you partner with Miche Pest Control, we can eliminate existing fleas as well as make your yard wildlife-proof. Deterring flea-infested wildlife can lessen the chances of future flea infestations. Contact us today for your free estimate.