Like many other parasitic insects, fleas in an apartment require a special, specific approach to deal with them. The way of life of these insects differs significantly from that of bedbugs, cockroaches and lice, and therefore the fight against fleas has many features.
Before you get rid of fleas in the apartment, you must first find out how they ended up in the room. If you "arrived" on a pet - a cat or a dog - then the animals themselves must be included in the list of processed objects. If they simply penetrated from the street (which is important for private houses), it is necessary to provide measures to protect housing from re-penetration.
So, getting rid of fleas in an apartment should be a complex, but quick operation, some of which are frequent:
- Getting rid of fleas for pets.
- Treatment of the apartment from fleas.
- Thorough cleaning of the premises after insecticidal treatment.
- Compliance with preventive measures against re-entry of fleas into the apartment in the future.
With good planning, the first three points can be completed in one day. It is only important to approach this process responsibly and not do all the operations carelessly - with a negligent attitude, fleas will gladly take revenge on the lazy wrestler by quickly resuming their population in the apartment.
Therefore, when deciding how to get rid of fleas in the house, carefully study the information below on how to deal with them, adapt it for yourself, and act.
Here's what to do first...
This first one is to eradicate fleas from pets
Fleas parasitize not only on dogs and cats, but also on rabbits, rats, hamsters, birds and white mice. Only cold-blooded animals such as turtles, geckos and snakes do not attract them.
And be sure, if there are fleas in the apartment, then any feathered or shaggy pet also has them. They may not be noticed in wool or among feathers, but these parasites attack animals and birds more often because of the strong and pronounced smell: it is easier for insects to smell such a fragrant victim than a washed and clean person. And they bite equally actively any warm-blooded inhabitants of the room.
You can get rid of fleas in animals quickly and at a time. And you can stretch this "pleasure" for an indefinite period, during which the flea population in the apartment will also continue to grow, including penetrating into neighboring premises.
To obtain the same result here and now, you should use several of the most reliable means.
Flea Collars Hartz
These collars are considered the safest and most effective, although quite expensive. They remain effective for 2-3 months, and only in exceptional cases cause skin irritation in animals.
Such collars are very effective for those pets that regularly and a lot of walking on the street.
Review
“I generally thought that fleas on a dog were normal. Then I was enlightened that it is from them that the dog becomes infected with worms. I bought a Harts collar, Lai wore it for a month, and I didn’t seem to notice more fleas on it. It’s a pity that this thing is running out of steam, but in principle, you can buy another one for the next season, they are not so expensive.”
Julia, Syktyvkar
Drops from fleas on the withers Frontline
Among a fairly large number of flea drops, Frontline stands out for the optimal combination of safety and effectiveness for pets. They are very easy to use - you just need to rub them once into the skin of the animal in the neck area. However, they are not recommended for use in pregnant or lactating cats and dogs.
Review
“These Frontline drops are powerful medicine, but also dangerous. All of my Brits are getting hairy from these drops. Tried Advantage, but they run out faster. I don’t know what to do, it’s so pitiful to look at cats with loose hair ... "
Julia, Moscow
Shampoo Rolf Club
Good for pets normally related to bathing. They provide a sufficiently long protective effect against fleas and at the same time are almost absolutely safe.
Flea sprays Hartz and Frontline
This is perhaps the most radical way to rid an animal of parasites, and any, not limited to fleas. Requires the use of personal protective equipment by the handler and adherence to strict security measures.
Review
“Nightmare, what a hassle with this dog flea deodorant. Wear gloves, goggles, and a respirator. They just don't need to wear a rubber hat. The dog then runs around the yard like crazy, but you can’t let yourself be licked.In short, in the best traditions of American toilet comedies. But yes, we didn’t see fleas on the dog anymore. ”
Maxim, Evpatoria
There are many other brands of pet flea products available. When choosing a drug, it is necessary to take into account, first of all, the characteristics of the pet itself and the specifics of the remedy. Sometimes it makes sense to contact a veterinarian to prescribe the safest drug.
On a note
Getting rid of fleas in pets should be carried out at the same time as cleaning the entire apartment from parasites or a few days before. If you do this for a day or two after getting rid of fleas in the room, then during these days the parasites that have survived on the skin of the animal will calmly settle in the room. At the same time, flea remedies have a long period of residual action, and if the animal is treated with them a few days before cleaning the apartment, the insects will not attack it.
Video: how to protect your pet from parasites
So, as soon as the fleas and the fluffy or feathered pet are destroyed, it's time to get rid of the fleas in the apartment ...
Stage two - destroy all fleas in the apartment
Fleas are in many ways the same parasites as bedbugs and lice, and nothing "insect" is alien to them. Simply put, they are just as successfully etched with special insecticides as other domestic insects.
And therefore, when deciding how to rid the house of fleas, you should first of all look towards the most famous insect repellents in everyday life.
However, you should remember about two features of fleas that distinguish them from other insects in the house:
- fleas feed only on the blood of animals, birds and humans, and in principle they cannot consume the remains of ordinary food.Accordingly, they can be poisoned either with aerosol insecticides that enter their body with air, or with dusts with an active substance of contact action. All other traps, gels, baits, very effective against cockroaches and ants, will not work on jumping little vampires.
- Fleas are insects with complete transformation, and their larvae live in floor crevices, in accumulations of dust and debris, in flower pots, feeding on decaying organic matter. This means that before you rid the apartment of fleas, you need to prepare in the fight against two different opponents - adult mobile adults and larvae hiding in the garbage.
Given these features, a rather limited arsenal of means is used to get rid of apartment fleas.
Flea sprays
The beauty of these sprays is that with them you can get rid of fleas in a matter of hours.
The main thing is to properly process the apartment with them:
- Remove all animals and people from the premises, close windows and doors.
- Wear personal protective equipment - cotton-gauze bandage, gloves, goggles.
- Treat the maximum possible number of surfaces, objects and things in the house, including clothes and bedding.
- Close the apartment for a few hours.
- Ventilate the room and carry out a thorough wet cleaning in it.
- Launder insecticide-treated items and linens.
Such processing, carried out as completely and efficiently as possible, ensures the destruction of all adult fleas and most of their larvae.
At the same time, there are a lot of reliable and inexpensive aerosols today.
Aerosol Raptor from crawling insects
The raptor is quite effective against fleas.A few cans of it are quite enough to process a two-room apartment.
Low toxicity to humans and pets, but it is still worth following standard safety precautions when using it.
Insect spray Raid
It is also an effective drug, to which, however, in some cases, fleas develop resistance. Inexpensive and readily available, it is sold in the markets and in almost all hardware stores.
Insecticide Executioner
The Executioner is a specialized tool for dealing with domestic bedbugs, which is extremely effective against fleas. The executioner is quite expensive: to process a two-room apartment, you will need to buy jars for 1500-1700 rubles. But he is most likely to destroy all the fleas in the apartment.
Review
“We were recommended all sorts of Raids from fleas, but last year we poisoned bedbugs with the Executioner, and decided to use it. They also sprayed, fermented the apartment, and cleaned up. The effect simply amazed us: in the evening there was not a single flea in the house. Although this Executioner is expensive.
Oleg, Kirov
Getting rid of fleas in the house with the help of powder preparations (the so-called dusts) is possible only for a long time. This method is more time consuming and less effective in the fight against fleas, therefore it is used less frequently.
For the destruction of parasites, the following dusts are mainly used: Clean House, Feverfew, Brownie, Phenaksin. They should be scattered along baseboards, near animal beds and beds, next to trash cans, behind furniture.
Powders do not give a quick result, and you can count on getting rid of fleas with their help within at least 2-3 weeks. So in search of a way to quickly get rid of fleas in the house, it is better not to rely on powders.
A very effective step in the fight against fleas is to call exterminators. It will cost more, but the fleas will definitely be removed from the house, and the owners of the premises will also receive a guarantee for a clean apartment within a few months.
Step three - exterminate eggs and flea larvae
Getting rid of flea larvae and eggs is much more difficult than getting rid of adult insects: they hide in the most secluded places. Therefore, before their extermination, it is necessary, first of all, to carry out the most thorough cleaning in the apartment: sweep the rubbish from behind the kitchen cabinets, sweep under the carpets and the edges of the linoleum, wash the baseboards.
After cleaning, all these places should be treated with Chlorophos or Karbofos - these products will destroy both larvae and flea eggs.
Important!
The use of insecticidal sprays described above during cleaning will not get rid of flea eggs, and therefore, a few weeks after cleaning, new parasites in the house may appear.
When fighting flea larvae, you should also briefly sprinkle the top of the soil in pots with flowers with the same Karbofos. After that, the flowers cannot be watered for several days, and after this period, the top layer of soil must be collected and replaced with a clean one.
How to prevent parasites from surviving
Complete disposal of the apartment from fleas is not at all a guarantee that after a certain time they will not appear in it again. Jumping aliens can enter the premises with the same pets, on people's clothes and shoes.
To protect against such penetrations, certain preventive measures must be observed:
- Do not let your dog or cat come into contact with stray animals.
- In the summer season, wear a flea collar on your pet or use special drops.
- Constantly maintain cleanliness in the apartment, preventing the accumulation of debris and dust.
- If single insects are found, destroy them and check pets.
Such measures will minimize the likelihood of the reappearance of fleas in the apartment. And in addition, they will also provide protection against penetration into the room and other unwanted insects.
Good luck fighting fleas!
What is important to know when choosing a pest control service for flea extermination
Of course, in order to avoid these parasites in the house, they must first be removed from the animal. We rushed out of these fleas, bitten by the whole family, we walked until we bought Bonka a Foresto collar and processed the whole apartment. But now it's beautiful, no fleas, no ticks, and the dog is fine, and we are happy. This collar also saves from ticks. We change every six months, although it is enough for eight months.
Fleas love to bite me too, I know what it is - you itch so much that you can’t tear yourself away, to the point of sores.But it itches all the same and for a very long time, you don’t know how to process it. First of all, animals need to be rid of fleas, and only then they should be destroyed in the house, and the treatment should be carried out more than once. The usual dichlorvos helped me, sprinkled them and left for the weekend in the village.
Raptor stinks a lot and doesn't work, Executioner doesn't work either, Raid hasn't tried it yet.
Dichlorvos. Exactly!
Dogs hurt
Does dichlorvos work?
Yes, I tried! But it doesn't help the first time.
And I have a Sphynx, and I saw fleas on a cat. And we have it at home, we live on the second floor, and I can’t understand where the fleas come from?
fleas enter the apartment from the basement, they can rise up to the 3rd floor. The situation is the same with the attic, they can also go down from the attic of the house 3 floors down. Perhaps pigeons live under your balcony, for example, they can also be infested with fleas.
They brought it on clothes, calmly ((
And what is it? Small, bouncy, very black, about a millimeter in size. I thought it was a flea, but judging by the pictures, no!
She is the most
This is the flea. They multiply so fast, it's terrible. They flew into my apartment from an open balcony. Apparently there was a cat. I suffer every summer. And now I don't know how to get rid of them. All legs are bitten.
This is what fleas are
We have been fighting them for a long time, but time still passes, and they jump again! We live in a small town and there are not many things to buy. We poison with what we have :'( Advise something ... Maybe there is a website or folk remedies?
They recommend bitter wormwood! They are afraid of her.
Sagebrush
My child was dropped from the garden, they said it was an allergy, but it turned out to be fleas. How to destroy them? Please advise.
So our house seems to have been inhabited by these creatures. Disgusting horror. Houses are always clean. I don’t know what to do, at first I found it on the windowsill. Now I'm alone in bed. So the baby is sleeping there. Too bad he's scared. Still, like, did not have time to bite. Well, what if… We live in a private house, there is nowhere to leave for a long time. There are no animals in the house either. Only on the street, and then only chickens. The house is 150 sq.m., and as soon as I can clean every crack. Maybe you can give some advice? ((And by the way, the color is neither black, but some kind of beige. Skin color.
According to the description, these are ticks.
We used to have a cat in our apartment. She had fleas, but we poisoned them. Now our cat has run away, and fleas have settled in the house. We all walk around bitten. They tried to poison like mosquitoes - with a fumigator, but it did not help. What do you suggest?
You know, it's better not to experiment with dichlorvos. Still, it is too strong and powerful tool. Toxic enough to take down not only a flea, but an elephant. I myself use shampoo, after all, nothing better has been invented so far and it’s a sin to look for the best from a good one. The tool is inexpensive, but surprisingly effective. I will say that it is quite a bit enough to wash a medium-sized cat. Foams, however, weaker than human shampoo. We usually have a one-time "bath", but if there are a lot of fleas, wash again.
Shampoo, of course, is effective, but it is impossible to bathe a cat, it will strip all hands.It was possible for a small kitten to bathe it in shampoo, but after you lather the animal with shampoo, you need to wrap it up and hold it for at least 5 minutes so that these small creatures die, and then rinse it off very well. And manually select the remaining half-dead fleas with tweezers. After that, she put on a new collar and treated it with drops, and anyway, after two weeks there is again.
Do guinea pigs get fleas? My pig has one. And I have. How to get rid of, not at home but on the body and on the bed? Help me please.
Fleas do not live on people.
People, tell me, what remedy is effective for these terrible little black monsters?
Hello! A proven remedy for fleas is wormwood. We used wormwood essential oil. In a glass of water, 4-5 drops of essential oil, but no more, a very pungent smell. You can spray on any surface 2-3 times a day, until the fleas disappear.
Hello! Tell me, please, if you treat the entire apartment with wormwood, will the fleas disappear?
Good day. Neither wormwood, nor dichlorvos, nor any drugs from a veterinary pharmacy help against earthen fleas. Horror! I don’t know what to do, the cleaning is wet every day. Tell me how to get rid of these bastards?
There is a good way: live bait fishing. Leave to live with children or parents and every day come to visit hungry fleas. When they sit on their feet - pass everyone. And so come and crush hungry fleas every day, until you pass everyone.
Haha! Sooo funny!
Genius way! ))
What do you think about the fact that they leave eggs (reproduce)?
I almost did.)
I live on the first floor, there is a basement under us and they climb from there, a nightmare. They bite terribly. But we can’t get rid of it for a long time ((We tried everything, nothing helped. But we can’t get into the basement. Are there any other options?
Soda with salt in equal proportions, checked.
How and where to pour soda with salt?
They bite so painfully, my daughter is a year old, she is all bitten ... How to get rid of fleas? Already tried everything.
Veterinary pharmacies sell a product that needs to be diluted with water and sprayed indoors with a sprayer in all corners, floors, etc.
We took the remedy in the sanitary and epidemiological station, it helped for two years, now we are back again.
And what is the remedy? Also tired.
How to get rid of fleas with improvised means?
I live in a private house, so these monsters from the street come to me. I etched them at home and now every time I go to the store I drop a few of them. I don't know how to get rid of them in the yard. The yard is full of street cats, you can't catch them all.
I also live on the ground floor. Looks like they're coming from the basement. So annoying, scary to go to bed. Tell me the most effective remedy!
Good afternoon! Fleas in the basements should be destroyed by the management company.
Good evening! I don't know where the fleas come from in the apartment. How can you get rid of them? Maybe there are folk remedies?
I’ll tell my story, maybe it will come in handy for someone 🙂 A terrible summer of 2016. I came with two kids to the country. Grandpa has three cats and they moved to the summer house for the summer, but the fleas remained. It was horror. At first I did not understand anything, but when I began to find fleas on the head of children in the morning! ..She specially put on white socks, walked around the room, the result - 8 pieces jumped at the same time! It was impossible to wash everything and process it with chemistry. It turned out that fleas are especially active when it is damp. For several days in a row, I sprayed the bed and carpet, as well as the furniture and floor, with a mixture of tar shampoo, BIM flea shampoo for animals and water. And plus to this he stoked the stove. Helped!
I have two cats caught fleas today, I bought them Bars drops from fleas and a collar. One problem worries me: when it itches, you can directly see how the eggs poured. Tell me, will they continue to develop? Where I see eggs, I wipe them with a rag soaked in bleach, and they climb everywhere.
Olga, if you saw it and immediately removed it and washed it off in water, that's good. But you may not see them on the carpet, since they are in the pile itself ((To kill flea eggs on the carpet, you need to sprinkle salt or soda on the carpet, rub it well with a brush, leave for several hours, then vacuum everything. And while this procedure is being performed , move the animal away from the carpet This dries out the eggs and makes it easier to vacuum them out of the piles of the carpet or any carpet!
Thanks
First, get rid of fleas from animals, and take them to a place where there are no fleas. At home, if there is a carpet to kill eggs in it, sprinkle salt or soda on the carpet, rub it well with a brush, leave for several hours, then vacuum everything. Flea traps: place soapy water on the floor in places where there are most fleas. Change it daily. Treat floors and baseboards with a solution of Tea Tree essential oil (or any mint, cloves, wormwood): 10-15 drops of oil in a bucket of water.
I'm so tired, I don't have the strength to fight them.
Guys, well, you are building an elephant out of a fly ... Fighting fleas is the easiest of the easy ones. Buy boric acid (white powder.) And just spray around the apartment with a broom - and that's it. Fleas will die on their own. Another option: there is the Russian chalk “Mashenka”, so draw the entire floor and carpets in a box with it, then immediately smear it with a broom (you can just sweep, directing the broom back and forth). And that's it! All fleas will die on their own. And wet the pet with crushed chalk "Mashenka". You can put chalk in an old sock and crush it in it.
One neighbor could not get rid of bedbugs for a long time - he wanted to throw out all the furniture. I stopped him and offered to light the coals in the apartment, in the barbecue house. When they are ready, then ask all family members to vacate the apartment, remove all living things. Next, put the sulfur directly on the hot coals and get out of the apartment yourself for two hours. It is also important to prevent fire. To do this, put the barbecue on bricks in advance, and do not pour sulfur, but put it together with a paper bag - without removing or scattering it from there. In this way, you can permanently get rid of bedbugs. But keep in mind, during combustion, asphyxiating gas SO2 is released. It kills any insects and animals. But do not be afraid, you will not die, rather, you will feel a burning sensation of the mucous membranes, etc. They are killed by beekeepers of unsuitable families of bees. But a long stay in the zone of the released gas can damage your lungs and mucous membranes. And to be more precise, you will automatically not be able to stay close to the asphyxiating gas for a long time - run away to hell. So there can be no talk of imperceptible poisoning. This gas penetrates into all the cracks, and the bugs, hiding even behind the wallpaper, will simply suffocate and die. All insects will die, including fleas.But after the smell of sulfur remains, which will disappear over time.
By the way, sulfur kills not only bedbugs - it poisoned people in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. It is a very effective, low-cost and chemically non-toxic method (there are no toxic effects after use). You can even not cover the food and clean it up. And also sulfur is burned to obtain dried apricots by smoking sulfur with asphyxiating gas. Its only danger is a temporary burning sensation at the moment of inhalation of this gas. I remember I covered my nose with a cloth when I killed bees that were infected with American foulbrood. I want to say that it is impossible to inhale it, because. the instinct of self-preservation immediately kicks in and you run away without realizing it.
But be warned, it's an asphyxiating gas. It is impossible for them to breathe, rather, they simply do not want to inhale this gas. But you won't get any suffocation. He burns simply and everything. I do not advise women to do this, except for those who know chemistry or have experimented with sulfur.
Cypermethrin, the active ingredient in many insecticides. Trade names may vary. Dissolves in water, sprayed with a garden sprayer. The concentration is indicated on the packaging, available on the Internet. After spraying, it decomposes in air and light in approx. 2-3 days. When stored for more than a year, even in closed packaging, it loses its toxic properties. When buying, pay attention to the date of manufacture.
By the way, there is an assumption that cockroaches destroy fleas. From my own experience: there were no cockroaches - fleas were bred every year, I had to process the apartment up to three times during the season, from May to November. From somewhere, cockroaches were brought into the house. Cockroaches were not poisoned, after treatment for fleas in July, fleas did not appear until November.Everything is known in comparison, cockroaches in the kitchen are better than legs bitten by fleas.
When these creatures are gone, I can't sleep well! Nasty reptiles, parasites...
Hello, we have fleas in the basement, and now in the apartments on the ground floors. They set fire to sulfuric checkers, but it does not help. Advise something, otherwise there is no strength.
The pet escaped from the balcony (2nd floor), was caught a day later, all flea-ridden. Kitten, white belly - you can see how they run there. Collar dressed, shampoo lathered. It itches all over, climbs on the sofa to me, I think - I miss it. It's three o'clock in the morning, I jumped up because they bit me, and the pillowcase is white, I look - three creatures are sitting. She took off her bedding and threw it on the balcony. Of the available means, only soda turned out to be. She poured it on the sofa and on the carpet. Of the smelly ones, I found eucalyptus oil. I dropped it on the pillow, and 1 drop on the cat. Well, the creatures - bitten, everything itches. Apparently, they don’t like the collar on the cat, they sat on the couch.
And I mixed salt with soda, sprinkled the floor and that's it. Just do not clean it right away, let it be for several days.
Against fleas indoors, you can also use the Medilis Ziper insecticidal agent. At one time, using this tool, I quickly got rid of fleas in my cellar.
And where did you buy this drug, if not a secret? I didn't find it anywhere.