However, this pleasant weather also signals a less welcome phenomenon – the hatching of flea eggs. And these turn our backyards into breeding grounds for these tiny, resilient pests. Fleas can ...

Nope, that lifeless black speck on your pup's fur isn't a dead flea. It's flea dirt! Here's what you can do to treat and ...

Use a vacuum with strong suction and a HEPA filter to capture flea eggs, larvae and adults. This method reduces the number of fleas and their eggs and can be done daily. However, vacuuming is time ...

As well as preventing them from coming back for up to a month—including eliminating flea eggs—it also keeps other annoyances like lice and mosquitoes away. It’s waterproof, too, so if your ...

The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.

Fipronil kills adult fleas and ticks, while S-methoprene prevents flea eggs, larvae, and pupae from developing. If your pet has a lot of fleas, it can take up to a month of consistent use to get ...

When a flea infests your dog, it will jump on them, take a blood meal, which means bite, suck their blood, and during that process will produce thousands and thousands of eggs as well. You will ...

Flea toads, as some species in the genus Brachycephalus are known, are less than 1 cm long in adulthood. Their size is far ...

A flea comb will pick up fleas, flea dirt, and eggs (though you aren’t likely to see eggs because they’re so small—about 0.5 mm). However, if your pet has longer fur, brush out any tangles ...

If you suffer with ants in your home then white vinegar can be a good way to stop them. By mixing white vinegar, water and ...