Flea and Tick Control in Markham

If you need flea and tick control in Markham, 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 Markham.

How AstraHive Pest Control gets rid of fleas and ticks in Markham

1. Ask first about pets, bites and affected rooms.
2. 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.
3. Treat the pets too. Your vet must treat pets at the same time, or they bring fleas back in.
4. 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.

Ticks and fleas near Markham: what the sightings show

GBIF, the open biodiversity database, holds 54 recorded sightings of blacklegged ticks, American dog ticks and cat fleas within roughly 13 km of Markham, and the busiest month is May with 14.

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 Markham, OpenStreetMap maps 41 wooded areas and 31 named parks, including Millenium Park, George Coatup park, Thomas McQuay Park and Debbi Wilkes Park. Health units describe ticks as living in wooded or brushy areas, leaf litter and tall grass.

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Yards, pets and homes in Markham

56% of homes in Markham are detached houses with yards, which is where pets pick up ticks and fleas. Apartments and townhouses with shared yards, shared corridors and pets can pass fleas between units.

Woods, green space and fields around Markham

OpenStreetMap maps 92 parks, gardens and golf courses within 3 km, 45 wooded areas within 3 km and 4 farmland, meadow and orchard areas within 3 km of the centre of Markham. Ticks wait in woods, tall grass and brush, and fleas ride in on pets, so green space and tree cover near a home shape the risk.

More on fleas and ticks for Markham homeowners

• Ticks live where there are trees, shrubs, tall grass or leaf piles, so time spent in those places in tick season carries the most risk. (Public Health Agency of Canada: preventing Lyme disease)
• Kids often get more outdoor exposure than adults per outing, sitting in grass, crawling through brush, and spending more time low to the ground where nymph ticks live. After outdoor play, carefully check a child's scalp, hairline, behind the ears, neck, armpits, waist, groin, and back of the knees, and don't forget the feet. (How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide)
• Seek medical evaluation if you develop symptoms after spending time in an area with known tick activity, regardless of whether you remember a bite. Blacklegged ticks in parts of Canada can also carry anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Powassan virus, though these are far less common than Lyme disease. (How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide)
• Some people with Lyme disease never develop a rash, and the rash can be hard to see on dark skin or hidden areas of the body. (Public Health Agency of Canada: Lyme disease)

Sources

1. City of Markham: Property Standards By-law (2017) . section 14 pest prevention
2. City of Markham: Property Standards . composters, rodents and insects
3. Tribunals Ontario, Landlord and Tenant Board: Maintenance and Repairs . landlords must control pests such as cockroaches and mice; municipal standards
4. York Region: YorkSafe Inspection Reports . published food premises inspection reports
5. York Region: West Nile Virus . 34 traps, positive traps by municipality, private catch basin treatment
6. York Region: Lyme Disease . blacklegged ticks and attachment time
7. Health Canada: Fleas (pest control tips) . life cycle, pets, vacuuming
8. Environment and Climate Change Canada: Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010 . monthly temperature, precipitation, frost days and degree-days
9. Statistics Canada: structural type of dwelling by tenure, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0240-01) . dwelling types and renter households
10. Statistics Canada: dwelling condition by period of construction, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0233-01) . age of homes and repair needs