Flea and Tick Control in Newmarket

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

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

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.

Yards, pets and homes in Newmarket

60% of homes in Newmarket 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.

More on fleas and ticks for Newmarket homeowners

• Check yourself and your family for ticks after time in wooded or grassy places. (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)
• Adult fleas usually feed several times a day on the blood of mammals and birds. (Health Canada: fleas)
• Female blacklegged ticks are about 0.3 cm long before feeding and turn grey-brown and about 1 cm long when fully fed. (Health Canada: blacklegged (deer) ticks)

Areas near Newmarket that we also serve

Straight-line distances between area centres, rounded.

Ticks and fleas near Newmarket: what the sightings show

GBIF, the open biodiversity database, holds 28 recorded sightings of blacklegged ticks, American dog ticks and cat fleas within roughly 13 km of Newmarket, and the busiest month is May with 12.

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 Newmarket, OpenStreetMap maps 80 wooded areas and 25 named parks, including All Our Kids Play Park, Newmarket Riverwalk Commons, Lions Park and Sunnyhill Park. Health units describe ticks as living in wooded or brushy areas, leaf litter and tall grass.

Sources

1. Town of Newmarket: Information Report INFO-2020-32 (quoting Property Standards By-law section 12.1) . nuisances and unsanitary conditions, pests
2. Tribunals Ontario, Landlord and Tenant Board: Maintenance and Repairs . landlords must control pests such as cockroaches and mice; municipal standards
3. York Region: YorkSafe Inspection Reports . published food premises inspection reports
4. York Region: West Nile Virus . 34 traps, positive traps by municipality, private catch basin treatment
5. York Region: Lyme Disease . blacklegged ticks and attachment time
6. Health Canada: Fleas (pest control tips) . life cycle, pets, vacuuming
7. Environment and Climate Change Canada: Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010 . monthly temperature, precipitation, frost days and degree-days
8. Statistics Canada: structural type of dwelling by tenure, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0240-01) . dwelling types and renter households
9. Statistics Canada: dwelling condition by period of construction, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0233-01) . age of homes and repair needs