--- title: Incredible Minerals Today Blog | EP Minerals | diatomaceous earth for fleas description: diatomaceous earth for fleas | Incredible Minerals Today gives readers insights and information about new exciting uses for diatomaceous earth, perlite and clay around the world today, plus the latest information about EP Minerals. --- [![EP Minerals](https://s3.amazonaws.com/tai-epminerals-blue-production/assets/logo-2x-47fa904bf68f43107c73f6469e9c48f456bd3926518cc9ea58c2fb18c520d71d.png)](https://epminerals.com) Incredible Minerals for Everyday Use - [Login](https://epminerals.com/users/login) - [Careers](https://epminerals.com/about-us/careers) - [Contact Us](https://epminerals.com/contact-us) # Incredible Minerals Today ## [Celebrating Make A Dog's Day (and Diatomaceous Earth Insecticide)](https://blog.epminerals.com/national-pet-day-and-the-benefits-of-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide-0) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Oct 22, 2019 11:15:00 AM ![Harper and Cale-1](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Harper%20and%20Cale-1.jpg?width=582&name=Harper%20and%20Cale-1.jpg)*Harper Brown and Cale Wallis, DE filter aid spokesdogs, and DEsect diatomaceous earth insecticide users* Happy Make A Dog's Day! Here at EP Minerals, a U.S. Silica company, we are big animal lovers, and many of us own dogs, (but also cats, horses and a myriad of other pets,) and consider them part of the family. We’re sure you probably do, too! And we want to keep them as happy and healthy as possible. That means keeping them bug-free. [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/national-pet-day-and-the-benefits-of-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide-0) Topics: [DEsect](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/desect), [de](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/de), [organic insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/organic-insecticide), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide), [national pet day](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/national-pet-day) ## [Groundhog Day Alert! Punxsutawney Phil Uses Diatomaceous Earth Insecticide!](https://blog.epminerals.com/groundhog-day-alert-punxsutawney-phil-uses-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Jan 31, 2019 3:40:08 PM  ![groundhog.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/groundhog.png)*Punxsutawney Phil, Official Rodent Meteorologist* Dateline: Gobbler's Knob, PA. This Saturday, everyone will be holding their breath to see what the world's most famous groundhog predicts. Will he see his shadow? Will we really have six more weeks of winter? It's been a pretty crazy year for weather everywhere, so you just don't know. What do you think Phil is hoping for? Alfalfa and berries are his favorite foods. And we've heard that he's looking for more diatomaceous earth insecticide(DE) to help control fleas. Lots of nasty bugs in those burrows. Phil's looking for a DE insecticide that kills fleas. Hey, we have a product like that! [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/groundhog-day-alert-punxsutawney-phil-uses-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) Topics: [DEsect](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/desect), [organic insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/organic-insecticide), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide), [natural insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/natural-insecticide) ## [Diatomaceous Earth insecticide, a bad year for bugs and National Help a Horse Day](https://blog.epminerals.com/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide-a-bad-year-for-bugs-and-national-help-a-horse-day) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Apr 26, 2018 11:17:28 AM *![brit1.jpg](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/brit1.jpg?width=320&name=brit1.jpg "brit1.jpg")Happy bug free National Help a Horse Day!* From all the reports we’re seeing lately, this is another bad year for bugs. In the West, they say we will have more bugs because it was a fairly dry winter. In the East, they say we will have more bugs because it was a longer, wetter winter. Whatever. All I know is that I’m seeing an early bunch of ants, spiders, earwigs and flies at my house, and I hate bugs. Unfortunately, I picked a hobby that is intrinsically associated with bugs. Horses! (fyi, that would be my 25-year-old retired dressage horse Brit in the photo.) This year I’m starting my bug killer mission early with my secret weapon – diatomaceous earth insecticide (DE). The DE insecticide is made from microscopic skeletons of prehistoric algae – diatoms - that simply dry out and slice up insects like a samurai swordsman! [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide-a-bad-year-for-bugs-and-national-help-a-horse-day) Topics: [DEsect](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/desect), [de](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/de), [organic insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/organic-insecticide), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) ## [National Pet Day and the Benefits of Diatomaceous Earth Insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/national-pet-day-and-the-benefits-of-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Apr 11, 2018 11:17:24 AM ![Lisa_N_dogs](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Lisa_N_dogs.jpg?width=640&height=480&name=Lisa_N_dogs.jpg)*Odin and Vali Nilsson* Happy National Pet Day! Here at EP Minerals, we are big animal lovers, and many of us own dogs, cats, horses and a myriad of other pets, and consider them part of the family. We’re sure you probably do, too! And we want to keep them as happy and healthy as possible. That means keeping them bug-free. [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/national-pet-day-and-the-benefits-of-diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) Topics: [DEsect](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/desect), [de](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/de), [organic insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/organic-insecticide), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) ## [Flynn the Bichon Frise wins Westminster. Think he uses DE for fleas?](https://blog.epminerals.com/flynn-the-bichon-frise-wins-at-westminster-think-he-uses-de-for-fleas) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Feb 14, 2018 1:54:54 PM  ![flynn2.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/flynn2.png)Flynn, the Bichon Frise, won Best of Show at Westminster (Photo: MarketWatch) A cute little cotton ball won the Best in Show award at the 142nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show yesterday. Flynn, the little white powder puff pup, also known as aka GCHP CH Belle Creek's All I Care About Is Love, was picked over six other champs including a popular pug named Biggie and Ty the giant schnauzer. We also had a Carson City, NV canine celebrity do well this year. Adele, a Spinone Italiano owned by Carson City Deputy Director of Emergency Management Stacey Belt, won best dog out of 12 in her breed. Yay Adele! ![adele.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/adele.png)Adele, the Spinone Italiano from Carson City, NV won the Best of Breed class. Now that Flynn the puff ball is a celebrity, he has a busy schedule. Today includes visits to the morning TV news shows, a steak lunch at Sardi's, a trip to the top of the Empire State Building, and he's been invited for a walk-on part at a Broadway hit "Kinky Boots." I tell you. The life of a dog. Flynn's next plan is to retire, so he can just be a dog. He loves belly rubs and rolling in the snow. He's probably allowed to jump on the bed. My guess is he doesn’t have fleas. But if he did, I’m sure his owner would want an organic insecticide that's really effective on fleas. Hey, we have a product like that! [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/flynn-the-bichon-frise-wins-at-westminster-think-he-uses-de-for-fleas) Topics: [DEsect](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/desect), [organic insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/organic-insecticide), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth insecticide](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-insecticide) ## [Is it swim pool season? Time to think diatomaceous earth filter powder](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-it-swim-pool-season-time-to-think-about-swim-pool-diatomaceous-earth-filter-powder-) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Feb 8, 2018 11:37:46 AM **![pool.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/pool.png?width=640&name=pool.png)** Believe it or not, it's swim pool season! Maybe not in your backyard or neighborhood pool, but it's prime time for companies that have anything to do with the swim pool industry. And that means us! EP Minerals' Celatom diatomaceous earth (DE) swim pool filter powder and CelaPool low dust DE swim pool filter media are the "go to" filtration products for swimming pools. We're out on the road talking it up with our swim pool industry friends. This week it's the [Everything Under The Sun Expo](http://www.underthesunexpo.com/OPSS2018/public/enter.aspx) in Orlando. Then it's on to the [Western Pool Show](http://www.westernshow.com/) in Long Beach. *Farmers Almanac* is predicting a drier, warmer summer this year, so it sounds like folks need to stock up early on diatomaceous earth swim pool filter powder. That and blowup floaties and sunscreen!   [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-it-swim-pool-season-time-to-think-about-swim-pool-diatomaceous-earth-filter-powder-) Topics: [swim pool](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/swim-pool), [diatomaceous earth swim pool filtration](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-swim-pool-filtration), [celapool diatomaceous earth swim pool filter aid](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/celapool-diatomaceous-earth-swim-pool-filter-aid), [diatomaceous earth for fleas](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas), [diatomaceous earth swim pool filter powder](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/diatomaceous-earth-swim-pool-filter-powder) ## [Groundhog Day! Does Punxsutawney Phil Use Diatomaceous Earth for Fleas? ](https://blog.epminerals.com/groundhog-day-punxatawny-phil-uses-diatomaceous-earth-for-fleas) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Feb 1, 2018 1:37:05 PM  ![groundhog.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/groundhog.png)*Punxsutawney Phil, Official Rodent Meteorologist* Dateline: Gobbler's Knob, PA. Everyone's holding their breath to see what the world's most famous groundhog predicts. Will he see his shadow? Will we really have six more weeks of winter? It's been a pretty crazy year for weather everywhere, so you just don't know. What do you think Phil is hoping for? Alfalfa and berries are his favorite foods. And we've heard that he's looking for more diatomaceous earth (DE) to help control fleas. Lots of nasty bugs in those burrows. Phil's looking for an organic DE insecticide that kills fleas. Hey, we have a product like that! 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