TICK SERVICE

TICK SERVICE 

            Collier Pest Control is Southwest Florida's Pest
Control Authority.  We are specialist's
in general household pest and termite control. Our approach to tick control is
not just with surface sprays.  Collier
Pest Control developed a complete thorough Tick Treatment that treats your
complete house and every place your pet is active; all the cracks and crevices,
voids, windows and door casings, furniture, baseboards, and rugs.

                The
Brown Dog Tick is the most common tick here in beautiful Southwest
Florida.  The Brown Dog Tick does not
vector any disease, such as Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever.  Ticks
are a serious problem and can cause major health problems if allowed to infest
your living area.  Ticks are not an
insect and are closely related to the spider. 
Adult ticks have 8 legs, insects only have 6 legs.  All ticks are parasitic and feed on the blood
of animals.  Most ticks spend the
majority of their life on or near the ground waiting for a suitable host to
come attach themselves on.  Ticks will
climb onto an appropriate object, such as a tall blade of grass, bush, fence
post, side of a building to wait for a host to pass by. The Brown Dog Tick can
live for as long as 200 days without a blood meal.

                The
female Brown Dog Tick can lay a mass of 1000 to 3000 eggs. These eggs will
hatch in 19 to 60 days into a 6 legged, small, immature seed tick. Within 3 to
6 days it will molt and change into an 8 legged nymph tick.  After a blood meal from a host, this nymph
will molt in 12 to 29 days into an adult tick. 

                If you
find a tick attached to you or a family member never just pull it off the
skin.  A tick is easily removed by first
touching the tick with a warm butter knife or alcohol to get it to remove its
head from the skin. Then grab the tick and lift it off the skin.

                Don't
be over whelmed with a tick infestation in your home. Call, 239-455-4300,  Collier Pest Control
today for a free estimate and a complete explanation on any of our
services, or look us up on line on our web site at collierpestcontrol.com   Don't let unwanted guests
spoil your beautiful Southwest Florida lifestyle.  Remember, Florida does not have to be shared
with insects!

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