An ounce of prevention is worth a TON of cure by Michele Sporre Well, the warm weather is upon us and with the mild winter we had this is going to be a bad year for fleas and ticks. A few simple steps to help prevent those bugs can keep your poochies insect free all summer long. First we must start from the beginning, the lifecycle of the flea.
Fleas have four stages to their lifecycle.
The first is the egg, second is the larvae, third is the pupae, and fourth is the adult. It all runs in about ten to fourteen day intervals. The adult is the nasty guy that we see and the one who actually does the biting. So when treating for fleas we must treat for the other stages as well as the adult. One more complication to the whole thing is the pupae stage.