Flea Control

Treatment:

By reaching out to Katlego Hygiene, you’ll access our comprehensive flea control service, designed to swiftly eliminate all fleas in a single visit by our skilled technicians. Our thorough process covers all surfaces, including floors, fabrics, and upholstery, addressing every critical area for effective eradication. We utilize cutting-edge insecticides containing additives that disrupt flea hormone structures, effectively breaking their life cycle and ensuring complete elimination of the infestation. Following the procedure, our technicians recommend vacating the treated room or rooms for a minimum of four hours to ensure safety and efficacy. Fleas, scientifically known as Siphonaptera, are wingless insects equipped with specialized mouthparts enabling them to pierce the skin of their hosts and feed on their blood. Adult fleas rely entirely on blood for sustenance, with potential hosts ranging from bats and birds to household pets and humans. Any mammal sporting hair or fur can unwittingly harbor these unwelcome parasites. By enlisting our flea control service, you can swiftly resolve your flea woes. Despite lacking wings, fleas boast remarkably powerful elongated legs, facilitating their impressive jumping ability and seamless movement between hosts and environments, leaving behind irritating bites. Effective flea control necessitates treating both your premises and your pets, if applicable.

Katlego Hygiene,  provides safe and efficient treatments tailored to your home or business, ensuring thorough control of your infestation. Our SAPCA-certified technicians possess in-depth knowledge of flea species’ behaviors, enabling precise and targeted treatments to eradicate all traces of fleas from your surroundings.

Information on fleas:

Fleas are tiny 1.5 to 3.3 mm in length, with very quick reactions, they’re generally a dark brownish colour, for example, the reddish-brown especially those found on household pets. They are wingless insects. Its mouth is tube shaped which is perfectly adapted enabling them to feast upon the blood of their victim. They have long legs, the legs on the back are used for leaping; a flea is able to leap vertically up to eighteen cm and horizontally up to thirty-three cm. This amazing feat is more 180 times greater than the length of their body, establishing them as one of the foremost leapers of all well-known insects Before feeding their body is flat allowing them to easily move through hair, feathers and fur of their of their host’s body, or on humans, under their clothing.

Fleas lay minute whitish egg-shaped eggs which are easier seen using a microscope or a magnifying glass. The larva of a flea is also very tiny and a pale cream colour, it has minute bristles over its caterpillar like body, at this stage they are sightless their mouths is largely used for chewing. The larva feeds on a varied diet of organic matter, in particular the faeces of adult fleas; unlike the adults which feeds only on fresh blood. During the pupae stage, the larva is encased in a silky cocoon which is disguised with surround debris.