Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Spring Cleaning in Your Yard to Help Control Fleas

black cat in Mimi walks through the buttercups and forget-me-nots. — Mimi walks through the buttercups and forget-me-nots.

FLEAS, LIKE MOST OTHER INSECTS, live everywhere around us and it’s how we manage our surroundings that helps to control their populations. Like managing mosquitoes, for instance, by eliminating still pools of water where they can breed, you can also manage the flea population around your yard without the use of toxic chemicals so that fleas can’t set up a happy colony where they are ready and waiting when your pet comes outside—or even when you come outside and carry them back in.

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Spring is the prime time to get ahead of fleas, so take spring cleaning in your yard as seriously as in your home and begin early. By initiating or modifying a few of the ways you care for your landscape you can eliminate nesting and breeding spaces and welcome their predators, an effect that can last all through the warm months of summer and fall, and even become a permanent solution to keeping fleas at a minimum in your yard. If you manage cats in an outdoor colony some of these suggestions can help you with flea control in their area as well.

Rather than republish the entire article each spring, I link to the main post on this subject. The article includes detailed information, links to resources, and one-page guide sheet you can download to your computer or phone.

Click here to read Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Begin in Spring to Control Fleas.

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Mimi is never so happy as when she’s out in the yard, as you can see by her “happy tail”. She’s so short that I can’t get a good photo of her face without flowers in the way, but perhaps that’s how she wants it.

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