A guide to avoiding the flea callback blues. As flea work trends back to pest control companies, technicians need to be familiar with the special challenges posed by flea control. Mess up and flea jobs can generate costly callbacks and unhappy customers. Here are five important factors to keep in mind when dealing with fleas: PRIMARY TARGET = FLEA LARVAE. An adult female flea lays 15 to 20 eggs per day while on the animal. The eggs fall off the animal, but they aren't scattered uniformly throughout the house. The eggs likely fall in pet resting areas, pet play areas, or where a pet jumps down from a bed or couch or runs down the stairs. Larvae that hatch from these eggs create little pockets of infestation in carpets, furniture and cracks in wood flooring. Dark, blood-rich flea feces also drop from the animal, and this is the primary food of the larvae.
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