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Other proactive helps with tick treatments include frequent examination of your pet for any ticks that may not have come in contact with our products or pet medicine or reinfestation from an outside source. With pet pests like fleas and ticks, the pest products need to be used for both quick control of the pests and quick relief for your pets happiness. We say “veterinarian prescribed” because there are many over the counter and internet purchased products that do not work, or do not work well. Like fleas, tick infestations will require pet owners to have their pets treated and on veterinarian prescribed medicines. A thorough inspection must be made and thorough treatment applied to areas where ticks will come into contract. Like bedbugs, there needs to be 100% population control, which can take time as ticks are very good at hiding up and away from many product treatment areas from pest control professionals.
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Next to bedbugs, ticks are probably the most difficult pest to control. To find your local tick control company, click here.The brown dog tick is the tick (and the only tick!) that afflict dogs and dog owners here in Hawaii. While there are preventative measures you can take to avoid ticks, the best thing you can do is hire a professional. The more you know about ticks, the better you can prevent them from invading your yard.
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Brown dog ticks do not typically transmit diseases to humans, but they can infect humans with Rocky Mountain spotted fever on rare occasions. When they cannot find an animal to bite, these ticks will resort to getting blood meals from human hosts. Brown dog ticks can also carry different diseases at different stages of their lives.Īlthough their name might suggest otherwise, brown dog ticks do in fact feed on humans in rare cases. Another thing that differentiates these ticks from other species is that they prefer to feed on one host throughout their entire life cycle. Unlike other species, brown dog ticks can spend their entire lives indoors and can sometimes complete their life cycles in just three months. How long do they live and what is their life cycle?
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Brown dog ticks tend to infest areas where there is a lot of human activity, especially homes. While these ticks inhabit areas all throughout the United States, they are particularly common in the southern states. Unlike other tick species that are only found in a specific region, brown dog ticks can be found worldwide. Read on to learn more about where brown dog ticks live, what diseases they spread, and more: In this week’s Species Spotlight, we will be talking about the Rhipicephalus sanguineus , commonly referred to as the brown dog tick. Last week we told you about the lone star tick, which tends to inhabit the eastern half of the United States and is responsible for transmitting diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Heartland virus disease. There are a variety of tick species that inhabit the United States, and it is important to understand the differences between them in order to practice proper tick control. Ticks, apart from being a nuisance in your backyard, pose many potential health risks to you and your family– including the furry ones. As a tick control company, we at Mosquito Authority make it a priority to educate our customers on these pests.