Sentences with phrase «flea eggs typically»

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The adult female flea typically lives for several weeks on the pet, during which time she will feed on the pet's blood two to three times and lay twenty to thirty eggs each day.

Flea and tick shampoos are effective at killing adult fleas and their eggs for a short amount of time, but they typically do not stop an infestation or keep fleas from coming back.

Topical flea preventives typically contain both an adulticide and insect growth regulators (IGRs)-- the adulticide kills the adult flea while the IGR kills the eggs and larvae, preventing them from developing into adults.

When an adult flea makes its home on a host, it will lay its eggs — as many as 50 per day — which will typically fall off your pet and settle into your carpets, the University of Kentucky stated.

Typically, regular monthly doses of such drugs aim to kill fleas before they have a chance to lay eggs, stopping infestations before they start.

Flea and tick eggs are typically resistant to adulticides, so IGRs fit the bill in disrupting the life cycle before maturation occurs.

Medications typically cover other types of parasites as well, such as hookworms, tapeworms, and flea eggs.