Flea Facts or "that's why it's so hard to get rid of fleas"

• Usually animals pick up fleas from flea infested environments, NOT by fleas jumping from one animal to another.
• A flea can lay up to 50 eggs per day and up to 2000 eggs in its lifetime.  During this time, the eggs are laid on the host, but they fall off into the environment where the eggs develop to mobile larvae then to pupae (dormant encased young fleas). 
• All stages of the flea lifecycle are sensitive to dryness and low temperatures.  To develop normally,the eggs require humidity and protection from sunlight.  The best humidity and sunlight protection places are typically the carpets, floor mats, in between the sofa cushions, under indoor furniture, under the house, under the kennel, in between cracks in floorboards and pet bedding.
• Only 5% of the flea's life is spent actually on your pet, the other 95% of flea life stages live in the environment and can survive for up to 12 months.
• Flea larvae are very mobile and they will move away from high traffic areas to under appliances and furniture and other sheltered areas in the house.