Sentences with phrase «of flea populations»

Advantage II provides multi-stage flea control effectively breaking all flea life - cycle stages for quick and lasting control of flea populations.

Flea Pupae — represent 10 % of a flea population.

Flea Larvae — represent 35 % of a flea population.

Only about 5 % of the flea population is comprised of adult fleas, while the remaining 95 % are in the early development stages (flea eggs, flea larvae, and pupae).

This includes the 85 % of the flea population that are immature fleas, which are effectively controlled by a product like lufenuron (Program Flavor Tabs) and the 5 % of the flea population that are adult fleas, which are effectively treated by an adulticide, like nitenpyram (Capstar).

This is important because only 5 % of a flea population found within a home are adult fleas.

Our experience is, for most dogs, one bottle will last several months and sometimes over a year, depending on the size of your dog and the extent of the flea population in your area.

The flea eggs, larvae, pupa, and the few adults that reside in the carpeting, bedding, and living areas make up approximately 90 % of the flea population.

It is much easier to kill the flea egg than the flea adult, and the majority of the flea population (95 %) is hanging about as eggs, larvae and pupae in the environment, waiting their «turn».

In fact, it's estimated that only 1 % of the flea population is in the adult stage at any given time.

You may see an occasional «hitchhiker» adult flea that your dog has picked up at the dog park or in the yard or other infested environments where 95 % of the flea population lives in the form of eggs, maggot - like larvae, and pupae.1 SENTINEL ® SPECTRUM ® and SENTINEL ® FLAVOR TABS ® put an end to fleas before they become adults.

Only 1 - 5 % of flea population lives on your pet, while the other 95 - 99 % lives in your house and yard.

At least 95 % of the flea population exists as eggs, larvae, and pupae that hide in carpets and yards while adult fleas make up only 1 - 5 % of the flea population.

Adult fleas are only 1 - 5 % of the flea population.

There are two main areas to address the major segments of the flea population, the eggs and larvae (remember, they're 85 % of the population).

This means that the dish soap won't do anything for 95 % of the flea population in your house.

The problem here is that adult fleas (what we see on your pet) are only 5 % of the flea population in your house.

Flea control has always been a challenge for veterinarians and pet owners because the adult fleas cause the clinical signs, yet the majority of the flea population (eggs, larvae, and pupae) is to be found off the pet in and around the home.

At most, expect even the best flea shampoo to wipe out around 90 % of the flea population on your dog the first time around.

The majority of the flea population (i.e. eggs, larvae, and pupae) are found off the pet and around the home.

At any given time, eggs comprise about 50 % of the flea population in your home — this is why treating your home for fleas is just as important as treating your dog.

Our experience has been that for most dogs, one bottle will last several months and sometimes over a year depending on the size of your dog, and the extent of the flea population in your area.

Immature fleas can remain dormant in carpets, bedding, and other areas of your home for a long time, and approximately only 5 % of the flea population found in a home are adult fleas.

Yes, yes, we know - we don't love the idea of dunking our cats in water (or the hell that will follow for us), but a good flea shampoo for cats is one of the easiest ways to effectively wipe out a sizable chunk of the flea population currently inhabiting your poor cat's fur.

Only 5 % of the flea population actually lives on your pet, so if you are seeing 5 fleas, it means that there is another 95 fleas living in the environment.

Remember 95 % of the flea population in your house is immature and hard to see because they are either eggs, larvae or pupae.

Fleas eggs can live in your bed, couch, or carpet and 95 % of the flea population in your home is made of eggs, pupae, and worm - like larve, the only way to stop infestations and prevent new ones from occurring is to break the flea life cycle.

Not exact matches

Water flea populations peak when there is lots of stagnant water, which happens in the dry season in wet areas, such as Ghana, and in the wet season in dry areas, such as Sudan.

The tanks were divided horizontally by a false bottom with holes big enough to let a population of water fleas swim freely — but too small to let fish leave the bottom part of the tanks.

The cumulative long - term effect of these pollutants may be more important than the dose at which 50 % of a population of water fleas or minnows dies, he says.

Unlike many populations of animals that undergo genetic changes over numerous generations and improve their camouflage against the environment, sand fleas from the different beaches begin life as a planktonic larval stage and so are likely to come from the same gene pool.

So researchers put infected fleas on different feeding schedules and observed the impact on the populations of parasites inside them.

Four of them had to share their tanks with water fleas, which gave them competition and restricted the population growth.

The bacterium normally thrives in rodent populations, passing from one animal to another via the bites of plague - infected fleas.

The biologists used dormant eggs from Felbrigg Hall, a shallow lake in England: «Both the water flea population and the changes in temperature of that lake are well - documented.

When we hatch the dormant eggs of water fleas from the past and compare them with the contemporary population, we can reconstruct the evolutionary changes that occurred in that population and examine how they have adapted to the rising temperature of the water in which they live.»

In another experiment, the biologists examined whether current populations of the water flea Daphnia can genetically adapt to higher temperatures.

The researchers also suggest further research on the mechanisms of resistance and cross-resistance within the flea vector, to gain a fuller understanding of how insecticide develops and spreads across populations.

Not only did certain intestinal parasites appear to increase in prevalence with the coming of the Romans, but Mitchell also found that, despite their famous culture of regular bathing, «ectoparasites» such as lice and fleas were just as widespread among Romans as in Viking and medieval populations, where bathing was not widely practiced.

The new «gene drive» mechanism has the potential to reduce or completely extirpate a population of rapidly reproducing sexual organisms such as mosquitoes, fleas, tree - killing insects, and invasive non-native plants and animals.

The reality is that adult fleas make up only five percent of the total population of fleas in the environment at any one time, so by the time adults are seen, it's too late to prevent a potential infestation.

Fleas Cats can be extremely allergic to flea saliva, a particular concern in spring, when populations of the parasites can explode.

Only the adults are found on the pet and will constitute approximately 5 % of the total flea population.

This is just part of different flea populations evolving to avoid our control.

That's why fleas don't become a problem until early summer for most of our Northern friends and relatives.But Florida experiences booms in the flea population in January and February.

Can these good - guy nematodes provide pets and their owners the promised relief from the pesky populations of flea larvae that infest soil and turf around homes?

The application of diatomaceous earth should continue after the resident flea population is exterminated.

The limitiation of this product is that it only effectively works if the pet is not constanly coming into contact with novel flea populations.

Only 10 percent of the total flea population in an infected household will actually be on the dog.

It is essential to consider the whole life cycle of the flea when devising a control strategy — remember that adult fleas only constitute about 1 % of the potential population and that the other 99 % are away from the dog.