FLEAS!!!!!!!!

carl reitnauer · Apr 25, 2015

Went a week ago to clean out a rental house[snowbirds] and the house is loaded with fleas from their yipper. Sprayed with malathion,used bug bombs,now loaded with smaller fleas.What is the best bang for the buck to wipe them out?

Two Dogs · Apr 25, 2015

The fleas or the snowbirds? TDF

hd6gtom · Apr 25, 2015

you are going to have to treat 3 or 4 times to kill the new hatching eggs. When you think you are done, do it 1 more time.

Dick2 · Apr 25, 2015

Either one can be a plague. We are always glad to see the snowbirds go home in the spring.

GVSII · Apr 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 04:54:10 04/25/15) Went a week ago to clean out a rental house[snowbirds] and the house is loaded with fleas from their yipper. Sprayed with malathion,used bug bombs,now loaded with smaller fleas.What is the best bang for the buck to wipe them out?

We've been using a product called flea busters.It's a powder sprinkled on the floor,left on for a few days then vacumed up.VERY effective!

Gambles · Apr 25, 2015

The cheapest way is to take along your large dog. (Or better yet, take along a large dog that belongs to your neighbor. LOL!) Have him inside the rental property. Have him run (or walk, whatever) through all the rooms for several hours. All the fleas will jump on the dog. Take him outside and give him a long flea bath. Repeat every few days.
Or, just leave the property vacant for awhile.

rrlund · Apr 25, 2015

Sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth on everything. All natural,no odor. Available at TSC. Vacuum it up along with the dead fleas after a week or so.

Geo-TH,In · Apr 25, 2015

This is the first year I've had a flea problem with cat. Cat likes to stay outside all night and sleep in during the day. She has a new flea collar and I put flea drops behind head and neck. When she comes in so do the fleas that jump off her on to us. We even spray carpet and sofa. Something has to change. How do you handle the new fleas that hop a ride inside?

Aaron SEIA · Apr 25, 2015

Pretty sure you violated the label on the Malathion. I doubt it's labeled for indoor use or for fleas. Hire a good pest control company. They can use products designed and labeled for fleas that are safe for indoor use around people. Bug bombs only drive them deeper into hiding and makes them harder to kill in the long run. When I do flea treatments, I'm using 4 different chemicals with 4 different modes of action and will guarantee you no more fleas after a couple of treatments provided the pets are treated with Frontline or a similar product.
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PJH · Apr 25, 2015

We once felt sorry for an old cat having kittens and made her a bed in the basement. We had a dickens of a time getting rid of the fleas, and I'm still not sure that we actually were a part of the end result, or if they finally just died out on their own. I remember that they were easy to "bunch". We'd leave a white piece of paper on the floor, with a light focused on it at night, and they'd come to the paper. A contact killer has to make contact, or you're just shooting in the dark. Just my own experience - I know nothing about extermination.

Nate V. IA · Apr 25, 2015

We had fleas in the house one time, it was a real infestation by the time we realized what was going on. Tried the bombs and flea collars, they worked for a week or two but the fleas always came back. I went to online and found some information and decided to try boric acid. I sprinkled it all over the carpet throughout the house. I was skeptical that it would work but it did, after a week they were eradicated and haven't seen any since.

Nate

john in la · Apr 25, 2015

There are several things that will attack adult fleas. (insecticide)
There are several things that will kill flea eggs and larvae. (IRC's or growth inhibitors)
But there is nothing that will kill the flea pupa stage.
So you will always have re-infestation in 7 to 10 days.
Vacuuming can induce the pupa stage to hatch into adults speeding up the process.
Also some of the sprays labeled for home use have little residual protection so you have to spray again.

But since you sprayed with malathion and the dog is gone it should be killing the new adults.
Boric acid works well or just bomb it again with a flea approved bomb and wait for the flea life cycle to work.

ObsoElitist · Apr 25, 2015

(quoted from post at 07:55:37 04/25/15) . I went to online and found some information and decided to try boric acid. I sprinkled it all over the carpet throughout the house. I was skeptical that it would work but it did, after a week they were eradicated and haven't seen any since.

Nate

Otherwise known as Borax. Buy it at the market and sprinkle it with a flour sifter. It works by mechanical abrasion, not poison. It kills the hatchlings until it gets wet.

Tom in Ga · Apr 25, 2015

A man told me about a dog with fleas one time. He said the dog picked up a rag and waded out in a pond. The fleas kept getting higher and higher until they were on the rag.then the dog spit the rag out and came out flea free. Maybe or maybe not. Tommy

LarryH · Apr 25, 2015

try permectrin 1 ounce per gallon of water

Dr. Walt · Apr 25, 2015

Take them to the Flea Market & sell them.

Isn't that what a Flea Market is for. LOL !

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