FLEAS.
Adult fleas cannot survive or lay eggs without a blood meal, but may live from two
months to one year without feeding. There is often a desperate need for flea control
after a family has returned from a long vacation. The house has been empty with no
cat or dog around for fleas to feed on. When the family and pets are gone, flea eggs
hatch and larvae pupate. The adult fleas fully developed inside the pupal cocoon
remains in a kind of "limbo" for a long time until a blood source is near. The family
returning from vacation is immediately attacked by waiting hungry hordes of fleas.
(In just 30 days, 10 female fleas under ideal conditions can multiply to over a quarter
million different life stages.)
Adult fleas are not only a nuisance to humans and their pets, but can cause medical
problems including flea allergy dermatitis (FAD), tapeworms, secondary skin irritations and,
in extreme cases, anemia.
It has been suggested that for every 1 flea you find on your pet, there are at least 100
more (in various stages of development) in the environment.
RATS.
There are officially 60 million Rats in the uk. Thats 1 Rat to 1 person.Rats spread disease, damage structures and contaminate food and feed. Rats damage one-fifth of the world's food crop each year. The real damage is in contamination. One pair of rats shed more than one million body hairs each year and a single rat leaves 25,000 droppings in a year.
Rats transmit Murine typhus fever, rat bite fever, salmonellosis or bacterial food poisoning, Weils disease or leptospirosis and trichinosis, melioidosid, brucellosis, tuberculosis, pasteurellosis, rickettsial diseases, and viral diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease.
MICE.
The house mouse is the most common pest in and around human living and working places. They damage and destroy
materials by gnawing, eating your food (especially cereal products or nuts),
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attacking decorations such as floral or
harvest/grain arrangements.
They can carry human diseases and ectoparasites that may bite people or pets. The
house mouse has a head-plus-body length of about 2.5 to 3.5 inches, and is gray with dull white belly fur. An adult only
weighs about an ounce, but they eat often (nibble) and leave their typical `calling card' droppings at places where they
sat down to feed for a little while. Mouse droppings are long and pointed compared to the larger, blunt droppings of rats.
Mice may look cuddly, but they breed rapidly. A house mouse can breed 35 days after it was born, and can have its
own first litter of up to eight pups by the time it is 60 days old. Although they usually live only about a year, if all their
offspring lived and reproduced at a similar rate, one pair of house mice could produce a population of more than 500
mice in one year.
Mice are good at climbing and jumping. They can jump about a foot straight up, and can jump down more than six feet
without getting hurt. An adult mouse can squeeze through a crack or hole as small as 3/8-inch across and can quickly
climb straight up an eight-foot wall of brick or wood paneling in less than half a minute. Even though one mouse doesn't
eat much, as their population grows, they can eat a surprising amount of food. They also damage food containers, and
their droppings and urine droplets contaminate a lot more food than they eat. In a year, one mouse produces up to
18,000 droppings; and it will deposit hundreds of micro-droplets of urine every day as it marks its trails.
Mice can spread more than 20 kinds of organisms that can cause diseases of humans and pets. These include a
variety of food poisoning bacteria like Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli, and others; tapeworms, mites, ticks, and rickettsial
pox. Other rodents, which are widespread and may also come indoors for the winter such as deer mice and white-footed mice
which can carry and spread other disease organisms like Hantavirus, plague and Lyme Disease.
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