Flea and Tick Control in Scugog

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

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

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.

If You Find an Attached Tick in Scugog

Our guide How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide covers this in full. This is the part that matters most when you check a home in Scugog.

• Clean the bite area and your hands afterward with soap and water or rubbing alcohol.

Named parks near the centre of Scugog include Palmer Park, Palmer Playground and Port Perry Waterfront, and fleas and ticks that live in green space can reach nearby homes along fences, gardens and tree lines.

Areas near Scugog that we also serve

Straight-line distances between area centres, rounded.

Ticks and fleas near Scugog: what the sightings show

GBIF, the open biodiversity database, holds only 7 recorded sightings of blacklegged ticks, American dog ticks and cat fleas within roughly 13 km of Scugog, which is too few to show a pattern.

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 Scugog, OpenStreetMap maps 23 wooded areas and 5 named parks, including Palmer Park, Palmer Playground, Port Perry Waterfront and Port Perry Fair Ground. Health units describe ticks as living in wooded or brushy areas, leaf litter and tall grass.

More on fleas and ticks for Scugog homeowners

• A personal tick check handles exposure from hikes, parks, and campsites, but if your own yard has overgrown grass, brush, or a wooded edge, you're re-exposing yourself every time you step outside. That's where property-level tick control comes in. (How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide)
• The Lyme rash usually starts at the bite site and grows slowly to more than 5 cm across over several days. (Public Health Agency of Canada: Lyme disease)
• Pet owners should ask their vet about tick prevention for their animals. (Public Health Agency of Canada: preventing Lyme disease)
• Ticks are active any time the temperature is above freezing, which in Ontario can stretch well beyond the warm months. Check yourself as soon as reasonably practical after coming indoors, ideally before you sit down on furniture or get into bed. (How to Check Yourself for Ticks After Being Outside: A Complete Body-Check Guide)

Scugog's warm season, and why the pets matter

The Burketon McLaughlin station adds up to about 2036 degree-days above 5 °C and 1126 above 10 °C a year, and its mean temperature stays at or above 10 °C from May to September.

Environment and Climate Change Canada climate normals, 1981 to 2010, Burketon McLaughlin station (14.2 km from Scugog). A station is the nearest one with a full set of normals, not a reading from your street.

We also serve Port Perry, Uxbridge, Brooklin, Whitby, Oshawa.

• Climate station: Burketon McLaughlin, 14.2 km from Scugog.
• Public health unit: Durham Region Health Department.
• By-law: Property Standards By-law 16-15.
• Nearby areas we serve: Port Perry (0 km), Uxbridge (14 km), Brooklin (16 km), Whitby (23 km), Oshawa (24 km).

Sources

1. Township of Scugog: Property Standards By-law 16-15 (consolidated) . section 4.16, rodent control
2. Tribunals Ontario, Landlord and Tenant Board: Maintenance and Repairs . landlords must control pests such as cockroaches and mice; municipal standards
3. Region of Durham: Tenant rights in Ontario regarding bed bugs . landlord and tenant roles, notice, licensed companies
4. Region of Durham: Check&GO! Durham . published inspection results
5. Region of Durham: Health Department begins 2026 West Nile virus surveillance program . 2025 cases, program dates, private catch basins
6. Region of Durham: Tick-Borne Diseases . tick habitat, established populations, prevention
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. Durham Region: Lyme disease
10. Statistics Canada: structural type of dwelling by tenure, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0240-01) . dwelling types and renter households
11. Statistics Canada: dwelling condition by period of construction, 2021 Census (table 98-10-0233-01) . age of homes and repair needs