How do i get rid of FLEAS in my house ??
Question:the fleas showed up a whole month ago, they went away for 3 weeks, they came back. we flea bombed the WHOLE house went on vacation came back and first step through the door my mom found 3 on her socks, bugs are attracted to my blood because i have bites all over me, after we got the bites cleared up all month, the fleas came back and now i have sores AGAIN so the exterminator came today and i dont know what to do but im sick of these stupid bites ruining my life HELPPPPPPPPPPP
Answers:
Buy a house gecko for $6. They love fleas. We have to buy one every few years. We have had ants, earwigs, tiny plant gnats, baby flies, spiders, and tons of moths from my son's science experiment.
The earwigs were the creepiest. When I went to the bathroom, fortunately I looked where I was planning to sit as there was one sitting on the seat. Then, I was holding my waterpic and one crawled out of the hole where the cord extends. Both experiences totally freaked me out.
When my visiting sister went to put away some of my daughter's clothes, the house gecko, who had become trapped in my daughter's clothing drawer, leapt out at her. We had forgot to mention that we had a gecko, so it was especially surprising. Had we filmed it, we would have been $10,000 richer. Geckos once let loose in the house are rarely seen.
Put a flea collar around it.
Hope this helped. ;-)
sometimes it takes mroe than one flea bomb to get rid of all the fleas becasue you can bomvb once but that doesnt kill all of the eggs the fleas layed so you are just keeping the cycle going...i would bomb two more times...once to get rid of the fleas you have now and then again about a week later to get rid of all the eggs!
apply salt all around the house they will go , wait a week
then hov ver them up
You have to get the right kind of flea bomb - one that will kill the eggs as well. Make sure any area that's infested (carpeting, furniture, etc.) is exposed to the bomb fumes. You still may have to do some follow-up bombing every couple of weeks for a while.
Pets: if there's a pet that's bringing them in, get a flea collar or try those flea drops (Advantix or Frontline+). You may even consider making the pet either stay indoors or outdoors.
flea traps
you can get a pan of soap, like dish soap and put in inthe middle of the floor with a lamp or some kind of light right next to it.
See the flees are attracted to the light and they will jump in the pan of soap which will in turn kill them.
That's a cheap way to do it anyway.
Fleas are impossible to get rid of if they still have a food supply. Are the fleas from animals, maybe feeding on a dog or cat? You'll need to use advantage or frontline or revolution, or something (not a flea collar, dip or power!!) to get rid of the fleas on the pet, otherwise anything you do to the house is useless!
With that said, the problem with flea bombs is that they don't get under the furniture and they don't get the eggs necessarily. You need to be able to get under the furniture and realize that your yard (and the neighbors!!) could be infested as well. Pet fleas cannot live on humans (although they try!!) and so if you or your neighbors have a pet, you need to treat the pet first. Get their food source.
Anywho, with that in mind, may I suggest this fabulous website? It has ideas like these for a flea emergency!
"Inside the Home
Locate heavily infested areas and concentrate efforts on these areas.
Wash throw rugs and the pet’s bedding.
Vacuum upholstered furniture. Remove and vacuum under cushions and in cracks and crevices of furniture.
Vacuum carpets, especially beneath furniture and in areas frequented by pets. Use a hand sprayer to treat all carpets with an insecticide that contains an insect growth regulator.
Allow carpet to dry and vacuum a second time to remove additional fleas that were induced to emerge.
Continue to vacuum for 10 days to 2 weeks to kill adult fleas that continue to emerge from pupal cocoons."
Anywho, here is the website and it is from the University of California, Davis, so based on California information, but also valuable for others. As far as I know there isn't another website that is this great! Good luck, I HATE fleas, but I hate having to poison myself with insecticides more! Good luck!
http://ipm.ucdavis.edu <-- general site
http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/pmg/pestnotes/pn7... <-- flea specific site!
Here's the solution for a lazy type person (me) who doesn't want to have to wash and vacuum everything in sight. This is from personal experience.
Get flea bomb/foggers. Make sure they are the deep reach concentrated, leaves no messy residue kind. Put one in every room. Don't forget under the house. (I live in a mobile home. I pulled open a part of the underpinning along the middle and tossed two under there.)
Let them sit for at least the recommended time. Longer is better.
Vacuuming gets up the flea eggs. If you don't want to vacuum thoroughly, plan on fogging the house again in a few days.
Treat the pets in old motor oil. I know, the animal will hate it, but it is not toxic to them. Let it sit on their coats for at least an hour. With my dog, we left it on all day. Note: DO NOT let the animal back in the house until you wash them with dish detergent like Dawn to cut the oil. If possible, do not let the animal back in the house until you are through treating it. If you don't vacuum, and plan on refogging, then let the animal stay outside until you refog.
Get Sevin (brand of insecticide) and spray all the way around the house and out into the yard, especially where main traffic walks, and animals tend to go. Do this after fogging the house, before you leave to let it sit. The Sevin will prevent the fleas from just leaving the house temporarily while the fog does the job of killing them.
Good luck!!
Extra note. To see if your treatment worked, leave a bowl of vinegar under a lamp at night. Let the lamp be the only light on. The light will attract the fleas, and once they hit the vinegar, they will die. In the morning, if you have fleas floating in your bowl, then you know you still have a problem.
We have to do the following process every summer. Sometimes we have to do it twice, but it always works great.
Contact your local veterinary hospital. Purchase enough foggers for your home according to the square footage. (The receptionist will help you figure out how many you need.)
This Saturday, set off one fogger in each area, when you can leave the house for 2 hours, then come back and air out the house. (Each costs approximately $15.)
That same day, give each of your pets a Capstar pill (also available at the vet's, approximately $3 each pill).
Repeat this process every month until your home and your pets are flea-free.
Then, teach your pets the following phrase in English (unless you are able to speak the same phrase in canine and/or feline). Ask them to teach the phrase to their fellow dog and cat friends:
Please flee all fleas and you will feel flea-free."
Repeat that very quickly 3 times.
Good luck and let me know how it goes!
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