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Keeping animals clean and using sprays may thwart summertime flea outbreaks
Pest-free pets
By James Reece Special to the Kansan
when a parasitic insect such as the flea gets off its host, it is gambling on how soon it will find its next blood meal.
However that next host — maybe a household dog or cat — could become the place where that flea, and probably some of its friends, waits.
That is an important consideration during a Kansas summer, especially for net owners.
George Byers, professor of entomology, said adult fleas could go as long as 127 days, or about four months, without feeding.
He said that during the Kansas summer, even pest-free trees stood a chance of finding a bunch of hungry fleas waiting for them, either in the outdoors or in their bedding.
Killing the adult flea is fairly easy, and Byers recommended two natural powder or spray ingredients that are parchment to the pet.
Byers said ideal weather for fleas to thrive, in both breeding and egg-laying, was between 60 and 80 degrees with humidity about 70 percent.
He said some products might not be meant for use with cats or in combination with other products.
Root, a Central and South American tropical plant, is a common ingredient in some powders, Byers said. Another safe, yet less effective natural ingredient, ovrethrum, comes from the daisy.
Rotenone, a derivative of the Derris
But another problems lurks after the death of the flea: the eggs each dead flea leaves behind.
Unhatched eggs are virtually immune to insecticides, he said. The eggs, however, can and should be removed from the house and sleeping quarters of the pet with the use of a vacuum cleaner.
Vacuum cleaner bags should be removed and emptied regularly or thrown away because eggs can hatch and infest the bags.
Byers said another way to prevent eggs from hatching was to burn the pet's bedding.
per se beating.
The life cycle of the flea is much like the butterfly, with its four stages: the egg, larva, pupa and adult.
After feeding for four to eight days, the larvae spin cocoons, and the adult flea may emerge in as little as five days, often bring the entire life cycle of the flea, from egg to adult, to a finish in as few as 10 days.
Herschel Lewis of the Lewis Veterinary Clinic said the most effective method to stop flea outbreaks was to stop the initial infestation by keeping pets, homes and yards clean.
He said that at his clinic he prescribed a product called Proban, an oral treatment that helps curb flea infestation. The pill does not actually kill fleas or stop fleas from biting, but it stops the fleas from laying eggs.
He said the product could not be used with cats, some breeds of dogs or with other treatments that were not compatible.
Lewis said that eggs could not be destroyed but that fleas in the larvae stage could be killed by the use of yard and house sprays that linger among the eggs until the larvae emerge.
Although many solutions work, the best way to protect pets is to keep them free from fleas before an infestation starts.
But with flea problems differing in each house and neighborhood, in both severity and treatability, sometimes it can be helpful to seek help from a veterinarian or a pet shop employee.
Trevor Lyon, of the Animal House Pet Shop, 2201 W. 25th St., said several severe flea experiences with his own dogs led him to understand that sometimes pets could be overtreated.
"In the summer, baths can dry their skin, and if you spray too often, it will make your dog sick," he said.
Lyon said that one year the problem was so bad that he called in professional fumigators.
Country music thrives in Branson
The Associated Press
BRANSON, Mo. — Their chart-topping years behind them, many country stars have found a road that leads not to obscurity but to Branson.
The names are getting bigger and the lines of traffic longer at the Ozark Mountain town that drew some 4 million people to Missouri last year.
Today Willie Nelson and Andy Williams will join the crowd, with grand openings at their music halls on the Las Vegas-style strip.
theme park.
Williams is the first noncountry entertainer to have a hall. Next to his Moon River Theatre, Louise Mandrell, Glen Campbell and Randy Travis will be hosts at the opening of the Grand Palace, a glitter 4,000-seat theater owned by Silver Dollar City
Construction delays prevent Johnny Cash from opening his theater Friday.
Roy Clark of "Hee Haw" fame was the first star to lend his name to Branson theater — in 1983 — but he made only rare appearances.
As the theme park and surrounding lakes grew more popular, Clark did more shows and brought in more entertainers.
"It's given new life to an old career," said Tillis, who opened a theater in March in the town of 3,700 just north of
the Arkansas line.
Mel Tillis, Box Car Willie, Moe Bandy, Mickey Gilley, the Gatlin Brothers, Cristy Lane, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twity, Ray Stevens, Jim Stafford, Sons of the Pioneers and fiddler Shoji Tabuchi now have their own halls or appear as guests.
you can go to church every Sunday and put your underwear in the same drawer every night," the 59-year-old Tillis said. "I've been on the road for 35 years, I saw a chance to get off the road, and I cut out the middle man.
"I went back to Nashville, and I guess I spread the word a little too good. I said, 'Boys, there's gold in them there hills.'"
Visitors many on bus tours pump1.5billiona year into Branson's economy
There are two dozen theaters, and the most expensive tickets, at the Grand Palace, are less than $25. Hotel rooms generally go for around $40 a night. Dozens of restaurants offer all-you-can-eat for under $10.
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