To be successful, natural flea control involves eliminating fleas from your dog and controlling the flea life cycle in your living environment. Dogs and cats share the same fleas. Fleas on the couch, carpet, and even hardwood floors need to be eliminated. It’s important that all pets have a flea control like Wondercide EVOLV. Treating your pet for fleas and ticks has never been easier. With Wondercide, you can also treat the source of the problem, not the symptom. Fleas on your pet are a symptom of fleas in your living environment, indside and outside your home.

When it comes to environmental control, we must first understand the 4 stages of the flea life cycle.

1. Flea eggs are white and about 0.5 mm (1/32”) in length. Eggs are laid by the adult flea after taking a blood meal. The eggs are laid on the dog’s skin and in the environment where their life cycle continues. Flea eggs represent approximately 50% of the total flea population. Eggs may hatch in as little as 14 to 28 days, depending on environmental conditions. High humidity and temperature are perfect hatching conditions.

2. Flea larvae are about 2-5 mm (1/8 to ¼”) in length. They feed on organic debris found in their environment and on adult flea feces. They dislike strong light and move deep into carpet fibers or under furniture, grass, branches, leaves, soil, etc. Flea larvae prefer warm, dark and moist areas. Outdoor larval development typically occurs in shaded, moist areas where pets with fleas spend time. Our homes, which most of use keep climate-controlled, offer an ideal environment for the flea life cycle to thrive.

3. Flea pupae produce a protective silk like cocoon. It quickly becomes coated with grime and debris, which acts as camouflage. With warmth and humidity, pupae become adult fleas in 5-10 days. The adults emerge from the cocoon when stimulated by physical pressure, carbon dioxide or heat. Unless they are able to feed, fleas can only exist for a few days once they emerge from the cocoon. Pre-emerged adult fleas can survive up to 9 months. During this time they are resistant to most insecticides applied to the environment. Wondercide is the exception because it eliminates the entire life cycle and other pesticides don’t. This is important to understand because adult fleas will eventually emerge into the environment months after you apply traditional or synthetic insecticides in your home.

4. Unlike the larvae, the emerged adult flea is attracted to light and comes to the surface to find a passing host to feed upon. Two days after the first blood meal, female fleas begin egg production.

In normal circumstances the adult female will live up to three weeks, laying up to 40 eggs per day. The entire life cycle, from egg to adult flea can be completed in 14-28 days depending on the environment and conditions.

A. For the friends that come over with pets that may have fleas, that’s a tough one. They either need to be flea free or allow you to spray them down.  Both Evolv and BioDefense are contact kill solutions, meaning that the solution must come in contact with the parasite to kill it. BioDefense has a lengthy residual in roofed structures for common pest insects, but nothing “repels” parasites or has enough residual power to kill on an ongoing basis (even traditional pesticides don’t do that). If fleas are re-introduced into your home, it is likely you will need to spot treat as a follow up. You could also let the dogs play outside, not inside,  and continue to do routine lawn control with EcoTreat which should eliminate the problem all the way around.

It’s amazing to talk to all of the “converted” users about the differences between traditional pest control products and Wondercide.   Folks from San Diego seem to really grasp the concept of treating the environment (your property) and spraying your pets down as needed…as opposed to putting drops on the kneck of your pets that resulted in one or both of the following: crazy side effects, ineffective results.

Thank you for your support San Diego!  If you live in the local area, go by and visit A Pets Best Friend.  They are avid users of many Wondercide products and offer it locally.  On their site, you can also take the Dog Food Analysis Test to make sure you are feeding your pets quality pet food, not big box food.  Tell Diane we sent you!

With hot annual temperatures and high relative humidity, Houston is the perfect environment for pesky fleas, ticks and mosquitoes to breed and quickly take over our lives.  Of course, the huge water roaches Houston is famous for are a force to be reckoned with in their own right.  So, what do we do if we don’t want to use chemicals on our pets and the property where we live?   Sometimes it’s best to step away from a problem, look at it from a nontraditional perspective, and determine an alternative way to achieve success.  That is exactly what a group of local business women have done for green, cost conscious, pest control products.

Understandably, pesticides were long thought of as the lesser of two evils.  Most of us are familiar with the “mosquito trucks” emitting a fog of pesticides in the evenings. Many of us with pest control services are told the protocol is necessary and safe.  In truth, we have long been warned of the hazardous effects of pesticide use in and around our homes, children, and animal companions. But, we certainly can’t have fleas on our pets or mosquitoes making a meal of our children.  Recently, there has been an ever increasing amount of data on the side effects of these chemicals and it’s making local and national headlines.  Stories related to pesticide use regarding Autism, ADD and ADHD in children, Alzheimer’s in adults, to illness and death of dogs and cats using topical flea & tick controls, make it all too obvious that it’s time we start asking the tough questions.

So what do we use? What can we do?  Until recently, there weren’t any alternatives to traditional products like spot on flea and tick controls for pets, or home, lawn and garden pest control.  Now, there is WONDERCIDE.  It’s like pesticide, but wonderfully, not.  

Wondercide is a proven, non toxic alternative to traditional, chemical pesticides.  All of the products are certified Organic by the USDA, made with Human Food Grade Ingredients, and have a 100% insect kill rate within seconds.  You’ve heard the old adage, “Treat the Source not the Symptom” and that’s exactly how Wondercide works. It is a biological control which eliminates the egg layer of the insect life cycle. Did you know that for every adult flea you see there are 95% more in egg, larvae and pupae stages?  By eliminating 95% of the life cycle that will hatch in your home and lawn, you control the pest population and thereby protect your loved ones from invasion.   It’s that simple.

You or service professionals can apply BioDefense™ ($35) indoors after cleaning. After lawn maintenance, spray the lawn, plants and vegetables with EcoTreat™ ($25) Organic Pest Control.  Wondercide EcoTreat™ comes in a ready to use sprayer that attaches to your garden hose and is simply applied by watering your plants and grass. With over 500,000 mosquito misting systems and lawn sprinkler systems in the Houston Metro, EcoTreat Pro™ was formulated and approved for use in all of them.   EVOLV™ ($25) Flea and Tick spray for pets kills fleas and ticks on contact. It can quickly be applied once a week or as needed for the dog park and other uncontrolled environments. Unlike other products, EVOLV contains a unique moisturizer that heals hot spots and relieves skin conditions, allergies, and constant scratching.  On your next visit to the groomer, local pet store or veterinarian, tell them you read about Wondercide in Houston Pet Talk and you want to make the switch!

For a complete list of Wondercide’s non-toxic, effective products, visit www.wondercide.com . Let’s be part of the solution together.

What exactly are our children being exposed to where they learn and play?

Why doesn’t the stuff we use in the yard eliminate the bugs?

Why does it seem that nothing deters mosquitoes?

Why do our dogs get sick or behave differently when we apply monthly flea control?

Why do we get bed bugs from reputable hotels?

Why does every one of the products we use contain the phrase “WARNING: HAZARDOUS TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS” before the “INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE”?

Why haven’t we read that before?

Spot Drop Flea & Tick Treatments, DEET, & Pesticide Use imposes serious health and environmental risks. The continued use of such products has caused insects to evolve and build a resistance to them, thus making them less effective. The poison is absorbed through our skin, ingested, or breathed in and have been show to cause birth defects and in some cases cancer. They cause organ failure, brain tumors, and slowed development of children whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy. Children and pets are at the highest risk of exposure merely because they play closer to the ground, put everything in their mouths, and are smaller in size. Even pesticides the EPA approves for use pollute streams, rivers, creeks, lakes, and oceans, destroying our ecosystems.

We were told the chemicals we used were safe. Well we don’t believe that anymore. We know there is a solution that’s as safe as it is effective!

WONDERCIDE is the answer!