Flea and Tick Control in Georgina
If you need flea and tick control in Georgina, AstraHive Pest Control offers licensed treatment backed by a 90-day warranty. Ticks and fleas are active through the warm months, and your pets and yard decide the plan in Georgina.
More on fleas and ticks for Georgina homeowners
| What the guides say | Guide |
|---|---|
| A flea can jump about 20 cm vertically and about 41 cm horizontally. | Health Canada: fleas |
| Later Lyme symptoms can appear days to months after a bite, and early treatment helps prevent complications. | Public Health Agency of Canada: Lyme disease |
| Clean the area and keep an eye on it, and check with a healthcare provider if it becomes red, swollen, or painful. In some situations, public health or your healthcare provider may recommend keeping the tick for species identification, Ontario's eTick platform lets you submit a photo for identification. | How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide |
| Fleas are 1 to 4 mm long, with flat, wingless bodies. | Health Canada: fleas |
How AstraHive Pest Control gets rid of fleas and ticks in Georgina
- Ask first about pets, bites and affected rooms.
- Treat. Fleas are treated inside the affected areas. Ticks get an exterior perimeter ULV fogging that lasts about 90 days on walls and about 30 days on grass and vegetation. Where needed we add an insect growth regulator (IGR) for fleas.
- Treat the pets too. Your vet must treat pets at the same time, or they bring fleas back in.
- Follow-up in 4 to 6 weeks, because one treatment kills adult fleas but not the eggs.
Products are Health Canada approved and applied according to the product label, and our technicians are licensed by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP). Our flea and tick work is backed by a 90-day warranty.
Fleas and ticks in your Georgina home or building?
Our licensed technicians start with an inspection and a clear plan for your property.
Call 905-925-8427Areas near Georgina that we also serve
| Page | Distance from Georgina | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Flea and tick control Sutton | 5 km | east |
| Flea and tick control Keswick | 6 km | south |
| Flea and tick control East Gwillimbury | 20 km | south |
| Flea and tick control Holland Landing | 23 km | south |
| Flea and tick control Barrie | 23 km | northwest |
Straight-line distances between area centres, rounded.
When You Should Check Yourself for Ticks in Georgina
How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide sets out how to check this properly. For a home in Georgina, start here.
- Your own property, if it has overgrown vegetation, leaf litter, or a brushy edge
For Georgina: Every premises must be kept reasonably free of rodents, vermin and insects at all times.
Georgina's warm season, and why the pets matter
The Shanty Bay station adds up to about 2050 degree-days above 5 °C and 1140 above 10 °C a year, and its mean temperature stays at or above 10 °C from May to September.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Degree-days above 5 °C | 0 | 1 | 12 | 70 | 222 | 371 | 468 | 442 | 305 | 128 | 28 | 3 |
| Degree-days above 10 °C | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 94 | 222 | 313 | 287 | 161 | 38 | 3 | 0 |
| Mean daily minimum (°C) | -12.0 | -10.9 | -6.6 | 0.7 | 6.4 | 11.7 | 14.6 | 13.9 | 10.1 | 4.4 | -0.7 | -7.0 |
Environment and Climate Change Canada climate normals, 1981 to 2010, Shanty Bay station (19.6 km from Georgina). A station is the nearest one with a full set of normals, not a reading from your street.
We also serve Sutton, Keswick, Innisfil, East Gwillimbury, Holland Landing.
- Climate station: Shanty Bay, 19.6 km from Georgina.
- Public health unit: York Region Public Health.
- By-law: Property Standards By-law 98-106.
- Nearby areas we serve: Sutton (5 km), Keswick (6 km), Innisfil (12 km), East Gwillimbury (20 km), Holland Landing (23 km).
Ticks and fleas near Georgina: what the sightings show
GBIF, the open biodiversity database, holds only 4 recorded sightings of blacklegged ticks, American dog ticks and cat fleas within roughly 13 km of Georgina, which is too few to show a pattern.
| Species or group | Recorded sightings |
|---|---|
| Blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) | 4 |
Source: GBIF.org occurrence records for Canada. These are observations logged by naturalists and museums, so counts show where people looked as well as where a species lives.
Within about 3 km of the centre of Georgina, OpenStreetMap maps 21 wooded areas and 3 named parks, including Georgina Pioneer Village, Willow Beach Park and Willow Wharf Park. Health units describe ticks as living in wooded or brushy areas, leaf litter and tall grass.
Frequently asked questions: Georgina
How long is the warm season in Georgina?
The Shanty Bay station's normals show a mean temperature at or above 10 degrees Celsius from May to September, with about 1140 degree-days above 10 degrees Celsius a year.
How many tick and flea sightings are logged near Georgina?
GBIF holds 4 recorded sightings of blacklegged ticks, American dog ticks and cat fleas within roughly 13 km of Georgina.
How do I break the flea cycle in a house with several pets?
Treat the pets and the home at the same time, because one treatment kills adult fleas but not eggs. A follow-up visit 4 to 6 weeks later catches the next stage.
Sources
- Town of Georgina: Property Standards By-law 98-106 . abatement of nuisances: vermin, rodents and insects
- Tribunals Ontario, Landlord and Tenant Board: Maintenance and Repairs . landlords must control pests such as cockroaches and mice; municipal standards
- York Region: YorkSafe Inspection Reports . published food premises inspection reports
- York Region: West Nile Virus . 34 traps, positive traps by municipality, private catch basin treatment
- York Region: Lyme Disease . blacklegged ticks and attachment time
- Health Canada: Fleas (pest control tips) . life cycle, pets, vacuuming
- Environment and Climate Change Canada: Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010 . monthly temperature, precipitation, frost days and degree-days
- Statistics Canada: structural type of dwelling by tenure, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0240-01) . dwelling types and renter households
- Statistics Canada: dwelling condition by period of construction, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0233-01) . age of homes and repair needs