Pets and Pests: Controlling Fleas and 250+ other pests!
From our homes to our gardens, insect pests can prove to be more than just a nuisance. These tiny invaders can be carriers of diseases and invaders of our personal spaces. The pests that put our pets in danger can be harmful to humans, too. To help us in our battle against these pests, nature provides us with a powerful ally: Flea Destroyer’s beneficial nematodes, scientifically known as Steinernema Carpocapsae and Steinernema Feltiae.
Despite its name, Flea Destroyer is not limited to the destruction of fleas. These beneficial nematodes can target and control more than 250 different types of pests, including some of the most harmful ones. Let’s look into a few of these pests and understand how Flea Destroyer can help control them.
List of Pests:
- Aedes aegypti (Yellow Fever Mosquito): This species of mosquito is a primary vector for several harmful diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever. They bite during the day and can spread these diseases to both humans and pets.
- Aedes sierrensis (Treehole Mosquito): While less commonly associated with disease transmission than Aedes aegypti, the treehole mosquito can carry various arboviruses, posing a potential health risk to both humans and pets.
- Blatella germanica (German Cockroach): German cockroaches can spread a number of diseases by contaminating food and surfaces in homes. They can also cause allergic reactions and trigger asthma in some people, especially children.
- Coptotermes formosanus (Formosan Subterranean Termite): These termites are an invasive species and are known for causing severe structural damage to buildings, posing a significant risk to human safety. They do not pose a direct health risk to pets.
- Culiseta inornata (Winter Mosquito) & Culex pipiens (Northern House Mosquito): These mosquitos are known carriers of diseases such as West Nile virus and various types of encephalitis, posing a health risk to humans and pets.
- Anastrepha ludens (Mexican Fruit Fly): These annoying pests are bothersome to pets and people – adding Flea Destroyer to your yard can help control them.
- Musca domestica (House Fly): House flies can carry numerous diseases due to their habits of moving between waste and human foods. They can spread diseases like food poisoning and dysentery to humans and pets.
- Popillia japonica (Japanese Beetle): These beetles can destroy plants, including those in gardens and parks that people and pets enjoy. They are not directly harmful to humans or pets but can impact quality of life by damaging the environment.
- Solenopsis spp (Fire Ant): Fire ants can deliver painful bites and stings that can cause allergic reactions in both humans and pets. They are aggressive and can invade homes and yards, posing a significant nuisance and potential health risk.
- Siphonapteraspp (Flea): Fleas are parasites that bite humans and pets, causing itching and allergic reactions. They can also transmit diseases like plague and typhus, and parasites like tapeworms, to both humans and pets.
- Vespula pensylvanica (western yellowjacket) can pose a significant threat to people and pets. Their aggressive nature coupled with a painful sting that can induce allergic reactions makes them a hazard. Moreover, they’re attracted to human food, making outdoor activities risky, and can cause damage by nesting in homes and yards.
We’re sharing this information because we want people to know that they don’t have to suffer – there is a solution, provided by Mother Nature. If we work with the earth, we can protect ourselves, our pets, and our planet from both parasites and pesticides.
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If you’re curious about the rest of the pests that Flea Destroyer helps control, here you go!
- Acanthoscelides obtectus (bean weevil)
- Acheta assimilis (field cricket)
- Acheta domescica (house cricket)
- Achroia grisella (lesser wax moth)
- Acrolepia assectella (leek moth)
- Acromyrmex octospinosus
- Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito)
- Aedes sierrensis (treehole mosquito)
- Aegorhinus phaleratus
- Aethina tumida(small hive beetle)
- Agriotes lineatus (lined click beetle)
- Agrotis ipsilon (black cutworm)
- Agrotis segetum (turnip moth)
- Agrotis subterranea (granulate cutworm)
- Alabama argillacea (cotton leafworm)
- Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- Alticini spp (flea beetle)
- Amphitornus coloradus (striped slant-face)
- Anabrus simplex (Mormon cricket)
- Anarsia lineatella (peach twig borer)
- Anastrepha ludens (Mexican fruit fly)
- Anax junius (green darner)
- Antheraea pernyi (Chinese tussar moth)
- Anthonomus grandis (boll weevil)
- Anthonomus vestitus (Peruvian boll weevil)
- Aramyelois transitella (navel orangeworm)
- Argyrotaenia citiana (apple skinworm)
- Athalia proxima (mustard sawfly)
- Athalia rosae (turnip sawfly)
- Aubacophora foveicollis
- Aulocara elliotti (bigheaded cricket)
- Barathra brassicae
- Barias spp
- Baris caeralesceus
- Billbugs
- Blatella germanica (German cockroach)
- Blissus leucopterus insularis (southern chinch bug)
- Bombyx mori (silkworm)
- Brachycerus undatus (garlic weevil)
- Bradysia spp (fungus gnat)
- Brevicoryne brassicae (cabbage aphid)
- Bruneria brunnea (Bruner’s grasshopper)
- Caliroa aethiops (rose sawfly)
- Camponotus spp
- Campsomeris dorsata
- Carpophilus hemipterus (dried-fruit beetle)
- Carpophilus humeralis (pineapple beetle)
- Carpophilus multilatus
- Carpophilus obsoletus
- Cassida rubiginosa (thistle tortoise beetle)
- Ceutorhynchus assimilis (cabbage seed pod weevil)
- Chaetocnema confinis (sweetpotato flea beetle)
- Chilo suppressalis (rice striped stem borer)
- Chlorida festiva (longhorned beetle)
- Choristoneura fumiferana (eastern spruce budworm)
- Choristoneura pinus (jack pine budworm)
- Choristoneura rosaceana (oblique-banded leafroller)
- Chrysopa collaris
- Chrysoteuchia topiaria(cranberry girldler)
- Cirphis compta (army-worm)
- Coleomegylla spp
- Conoderus falli (southern potato wireworm)
- Coptotermes formosanus (Formosan subterranean termite)
- Corythaica cyathicollis (lace bug)
- Cosmopolites sordidus (banana root borer)
- Culex pipiens (northern house mosquito)
- Culiseta inornata (winter mosquito)
- Curculio caryae (pecan weevil)
- Curculionidae napae
- Curculionidae picitarsis (winter stem weevil)
- Curculionidae quadridens (bark beetle)
- Curculionidae pleurostigma (turnip gall weevil)
- Cylas formicarius(sweetpotato weevil)
- Dasyneura brassicae (brassica pod midge)
- Delia radicum (cabbage root maggot)
- Dendroctonus frontalis (southern pine beetle)
- Dendrolimus pini (pine tree lappet)
- Dermacentor marginatus
- Dermestes vulpinus (leather beetle)
- Diabrotica balteata (banded cucumber beetle)
- Diabrotica virgifera virgifera(corn rootworm)
- Diacrisia obliqua
- Diaphania hyalinata (melonworm moth)
- Diaprepes abbreviata (diaprepes root weevil)
- Diatraea saccharalis (sugarcane borer)
- Dicyphus famelicus
- Dinoderus minutus (bamboo borer)
- Diprion similis (introduced pine sawfly)
- Dysdercus cingulatus
- Dysdercus peruvianus
- Eburia octomaculata
- Ectinohoplia rufipes
- Ectinus dahuricus
- Elasmopalpus lignosellus (lesser cornstalk borer)
- Ephestia elutella (tobacco moth)
- Ephestia kuehniella (Mediterranean flour moth)
- Epilachna varivestis (Mexican bean beetle)
- Epinotia aporema
- Estigeme acrea (saltmarsh caterpillar)
- Euxoa messoria (darksided cutworm)
- Fumibotys fumalis (mint root borer)
- Galleria mellonella (honeycomb moth)
- Glossina morsitans (Tsetse fly)
- Gnorimoschema operculella
- Graphognathus leucoloma (white fringed beetles)
- Graphognathus peregrinus
- Grapholitha molesta (peach moth)
- Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (European mole cricket)
- Haptoncus luteolus
- Harrisina americana (grapeleaf skeletonizer)
- Heilipus latro
- Heliothis armigera (cotton bollworm)
- Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm)
- Heliothis zea (corn earworm)
- Herse convolvuli
- Hexacolus guyanensis
- Hibernia defoliaria
- Hieroxestis subcervinella
- Hydraecia xanthenes (artichoke moth)
- Hylamorpha elegans
- Hylemya antiqua(onion maggot)
- Hylemya brassicae
- Hylemya platura (seedcorn maggot)
- Hylemya floralis (turnip root fly)
- Hylobius radicis (pine root collar weevil)
- Hypera postica (alfalfa weevil)
- Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm)
- Hyponomeuta malinellus
- Hypsipila grandella
- Laphygma frugiperda (fall army worm)
- Lasioderma serricorne (cigarette beetle or tobacco beetle)
- Laspeyresia pomonella (coddling moth)
- Lepttarsa decemlineataino (Colorado potato beetle)
- Leucinodes orbonalis (eggplant fruit and shoot borer)
- Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus (rice water weevil)
- Listroderus costirostris obliquus (vegetable weevil)
- Listronotus maculicollis(annual bluegrass weevil)
- Lyctus spp
- Macraspis tristis
- Macronoctua onusta(iris borer)
- Maculella noctuides
- Madoniella
- Malacosoma americanum (eastern tent caterpillar)
- Malacosoma neustria (lackey moth)
- Malacosoma californicum (western tent caterpillar)
- Mamestra oleracea
- Margarodes vitium
- Melanoplus bruneri (black heeled grasshopper)
- Melanoplus mexicanus
- Melanoplus packardii
- Meligethes spp
- Meloidogyne spp (root knot nematode)
- Melolontha hippocastani
- Mescinia peruella
- Mesocondyla condordalis
- Metagonistylum minense (Amazon fly)
- Metamasius hemipterus (silky cane weevil)
- Mocis punctularis
- Monochamus scutellatus (white-spotted sawyer)
- Musca domestica (house fly)
- Nasutitermes costalis
- Nauphoeta cinerea (speckled cockroach)
- Neocurtilla hexadactyla (northern mole cricket)
- Neodiprion americanus pratti (Virginia pine sawfly)
- Neodiprion lecontei (redheaded pine sawfly)
- Neodiprion sertifer (European pine sawfly)
- Nezara viridula (southern green stink bug)
- Noctuidae spp (including corn earworm)
- Oncopera fasciculata
- Operophthera brumata (winter moth)
- Opogona sacchari (banana moth)
- Orfelia spp (fungus gnat)
- Ostrinia nubilalis (European corn borer)
- Othnonius batesi
- Otiorhynchus ovatus (strawberry weevil)
- Otiorhynchus sulcatus(black vine weevil)
- Pantomorus spp
- Papilio demodocus (citrus swallowtail)
- Papilio machaon (Old World swallowtail)
- Papilio epiphorbas
- Parasa variabilis
- Passalus unicornis
- Paxillus puncticollis
- Pectinophora gossypiella (pink bollworm)
- Pennisetia marginata(raspberry crown borer)
- Peridroma saucia (variegated cutworm)
- Periplaneta americana (American cockroach)
- Phlebestroma quadrimaculatum
- Phryganidia californica (California oakworm)
- Phthia picta
- Phyllophaga(all types of white grubs)
- Phyllotreta spp (including the striped flea beetle)
- Pieris brassicae (cabbage white)
- Pieris rapae (small white)
- Pikonema alaskensis (yellowheaded spruce sawfly)
- Pissodes notatus
- Plagiodera versicolora (imported willow leaf beetle)
- Planococcus citri (citrus mealybug)
- Platyptilia carduidactyla (artichoke plume moth)
- Plectris aliena
- Plodia interpunctella (Indianmeal moth)
- Plusia gamma (silver-y moth)
- Plutella maculipennis (diamondback moth)
- Pococera atramentalis
- Polystes spp
- Popillia japonica(Japanese beetle)
- Poplar clearwing borer
- Porthetria dispar (gypsy moth)
- Premnotrypes vorax (potato weevil)
- Prionoxystus robiniae(carpenterworm)
- Pristiphora californica (California pear sawfly)
- Pristiphora erichsonii (larch sawfly)
- Prodenia eridania
- Protoparce sexta (tobacco hornworm)
- Pseudaletia separata
- Pseudaletia unipuncta (armyworm)
- Pseudexentera mali (pale apple leafroller moth)
- Pseudosphinx tetrio (plumeria caterpillar)
- Psylliodes chrysocephala (cabbage stem flea beetle)
- Pyrausta nubilalis
- Pyrausta nubilalis (European cornworm)
- Pyrrhocorus spp
- Rhagolites pomonella (apple maggot)
- Rhodnius prolixus
- Rhyacionia buoliana (pine shoot moth)
- Rhyacionia frustrana (Nantucket pine tip moth)
- Rhynchophorus cruentatus(palmetto weevil)
- Scirpophaga nivella (sugarcane top borer)
- Scolytus scolytus (large elm bark beetle)
- Scotogramma trifoli (clover cutworm)
- Selatosomus reichardti
- Sericesthis germinata
- Sesamia inferens (pink borer)
- Simulium vittatum
- Siphonapteraspp (flea)
- Sod webworm
- Solenopsis spp (fire ant)
- Sphex caliginosus
- Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm)
- Spodoptera littoralis (cotton leafworm)
- Spodoptera litura (Oriental leafworm moth)
- Stelidota geminata (strawberry sap beetle)
- Symmerista albifrons
- Synanthedon exitios(peach tree borer)
- Synanthedon scitula(dogwood borer)
- Systena spp
- Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm beetle)
- Termes spp
- Tipulidae spp(crane fly)
- Triatoma infestans
- Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle)
- Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper)
- Tryporyza incertulas (yellow stem borer)
- Turpilia rigulosa
- Urbanus proteus (long-tailed skipper)
- Vespula pensylvanica (western yellowjacket)
- Vespula rufa atropilosa
- Vitacea polistiformis (grape root borer)
- Xylocopa mordax (carpenter bee)
- Yponeumata padella (orchard ermine)
- Zabrus tenebriodes
- Zinkenia fascialis
- Zophobas atratus (giant mealworm beetle)