Thanks for leaving your post open. It was very helpful and enlightening to read ALL the comments and they helped me make a decision as to how to proceed to getting rid of fleas in my house. Good luck to everyone who shares this issue.
I call these traps a "flea circus", ha ! Your traps are good, but I would make two adjustments. One adjustment would be to use an extension with a night light instead of a lamp. For the night light, don't use an LED light bulb, use the light bulbs that get hot, fleas are attracted by the light and it's warmth. You have to remember how fleas can jump pretty high, and if your lamp covers a huge area of the container, the fleas are going to be hitting the lamp instead of falling into the container. The second adjustment I would make to your trap is to use vegetable oil instead of water and soap. I used water and soap at the beginning but the problem with that, is that water evaporates in a couple of days. With vegetable oil on the other hand, you could have the trap set for over a year and the oil will still be there. Oil is also thick, making it a deadly quicksand for fleas. This flea circus does eliminate fleas completely, you have to remember that the fleas lay eggs, lots of eggs. So after you eliminate the fleas, guess what ? The eggs will hatch later on, make it seem like you haven't gotten rid off the fleas. But you are going to be able to eliminate the fleas with this trap using vegetable oil. After days, you are going to start noticing smaller fleas, indicating that you have gotten rid off the adult fleas and now the newly hatched fleas are the ones remaining. I would leave the trap on 24/7, and don't be fooled, when it seems like you got rid off the fleas, don't forget about the eggs, so don't remove the circus trap until you don't see one single flea fall into the trap for a month. I have a cat, so I have to use this flea circus trap every summer. I hope I helped you in anyway, I understand the pain and struggle, stupid fleas are 100 times worse than mosquito's !
EddieNanakase this was super helpful ive never though of using oil instead im on the "second wave" the tiny fleas ive salted the carpets and treated my animal so im gunna use the oil method thank you x
EddieNanakase Unfortunately, oil of any type will not work. The reason that dish soap works, is because we have to change the the density of the water. When that is changed, that is why the fleas cannot come out of the water. If oil is applied to the water, they will be able to float on top of the water, thus, being able to jump out, and not dying. All of these things have been tested for years by scientists trying to discover what will take care of the flea situation. Another interesting fact about fleas, is the fact that you can place a flea in a glass of water for an hour. After an hour you can remove the flea, lay it aside on top of a paper towel, or something else, give it 24 hours, and it will in fact, revive itself. Fleas do not actually drown, they're only held down in the water giving people the opportunity to flush them down a a water way. Another study showed that, you could do the same thing with a flea up to 24 hours at the bottom of a container submerged in water. Give them up to 24 hours on a dry surface, and they will revive themselves. I found this astonishing. That's why it's very important that every flea be flushed down a toilet or sink.
Solar McCoy Not sure how that'd work. I know for a fact the water, with a tiny amount of Dawn works. When its not broke,....Why fix it?? Also, I went ahead and purchased a Victor flea trap four days ago. Yes, that works, too. But, they're $15 each. Geeee. The homemade version is best way to go. They work much better if the container (or possibly bottom) is WHITE.
Ellan Kane Not sure how that'd work. I know for a fact the water, with a tiny amount of Dawn works. When its not broke,....Why fix it?? Also, I went ahead and purchased a Victor flea trap four days ago. Yes, that works, too. But, they're $15 each. Geeee. The homemade version is best way to go. They work much better if the container (or possibly bottom) is WHITE. I'd like to know how the oil worked.
Another tip is to place a plant beside the trap. The light attracts them, but the plant helps attract them as they are sensitive to carbon dioxide that plants release at night. Dormant flea pupae are particularly sensitive to carbon dioxide, so this may be a great way to catch young fleas before they have a chance to lay eggs. Works for me.
you're literally blocking the fleas from the water because you put the lamp way too close the lamp has to be quite a bit above the water so they will jump into the water. not on the lamp put it higher
Wow you did a great job with this experiment!! I purchased that little mini version like you suggested and that thing didn’t do anything on a house I used to live in that was infested with fleas in the neighborhood.
Fleas take at least 24 hours to drown. You have to add a little dish soap after you fill the bowl & swirl it around with your finger. Just a tiny amount of soap. The water should still be clearish and not sudsy. The fleas will drown under a minute in the water with soap solution.
You may also find the traps draw fles from a larger area if you reduce the temperature in your home. The fleas are atracted to the heat, but if they are comfortable near a reliable food source (you in your bed, kids on the couch Etc.) they will only stray to another heat source if it is more atractive to them. The cooler the environment the further away they will detect the heat source.
That's awesome the lint rollers Perfect!!! Maybe try a big tote lid or one of those smaller dog pools and just cut it down So that there is only an inch of a lip thank you for these ideas I'm going to try the Tote lid and my ducklings heat lamp!!! 👍🏼
Also, vacuum the floors every day. Put some diatomaceous earth in the vacuum bag if has bag system. If bagless, just clean it after each vacuuming and seal up trash so the don't jump out. Daily floor cleaning is essential to get the eggs and larva. Do keep diatomaceous in corners. And don't forget to clean under furniture also. Fleas hide in the dark.
@@shellyhomman1541 u can use Palmolive! But i and most people who have used this remedy for years would agree Dawn dish soap is the best. especially washing your dogs. first scrub them down with Dawn and let sit for 3-5min, Rinse them off and then use whatever brand dog shampoo you been using. i would recomend( Four in one) calming formula.the brand is made by (WAHL) mixing dog shampoo with Lavender chamomile mix to conditioner hair. it works great and your dog will be vedy happy and smooth.👍
@@royparker2546 Dawn doesn't develop the residue other brands like Palmolive leaves after sitting for 2 or 3 days. If you put Dawn in one and Palmolive or cheap stuff in another, the Dawn solution will still look cleaner but the other one will look cloudy and have strings of egg white looking streaks.
Sweetheart they will jump into the water if he put more soap in it the lamp heats the water acting like warm bidy heat when they get into the soapy water they get stuck thats all the soap and lamp are for but his whole house is infested bad .when you can literally see them on the floor like that its bad .hes just to damn cheap to want to pay for bombs or an exterminater .ill be damb if i live in a house full of fleas or any other kind of bugs that bad .i hate bugs in my home i gues you could say im a clean nut .
This year, I put down granules and lightly watered it. I used spray that goes on the water hose. I used a spray you mix in water and use in a sprayer. I used Adams dip on my dogs. Then within the same month after a good rain, I was outside and got 30 on my legs. I checked my dogs and they were infested. Insane. I bought some dip/yard spray that is 4 times the strength and went over the whole yard 3 times. Dipped the dogs a couple of times. Still a few fleas on the dogs. Used coconut oil, apple cidar vinegar, D. Earth, dishwashing soap and still a few fleas. Just worked Vinegar into the fur real good. It's under control now, but I will have to spray again I'm sure when the eggs hatch. Planning to put down this termite treatment in the yard soon. Trying to keep the fleas out of the house too.
that's crazy came across your vid cause i have same problem in my house all wood floors i used cold water and soap and within 2 min i got 3. i didn't use a light or anything i just put it close to where we all sit and boom magic love the vid and upon looking at your other vids you got a new sub!
Looks like you have a lot of good suggestions in the comments. We also used a rug doctor and vacuum to suck them up and then clean the machine out or spray the filters with Raid. Good to see ya brother.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video!! .. Good idea even if it kills only a few of them. . At least you will learn that you have fleas!! .. Love your sense of humor!!! (:
This method REALLY works, as you've showed. When I have to spray, I use Cedarcide. It's made in the USA, is non-toxic to humans and pets and can even be sprayed on a newborn baby. It will even kill spiders and scorpions! It is an indiscriminate killer, however, and should only be used indoors. It's great for traveling with, as you can prevent picking up bedbugs/fleas from hotels/motels that you visit. Make no mistake, those buggers are found in fancy hotels, too. Thanks for posting!
Yes! That's exactly how I make my traps. And battery operated, flameless candles can be used for anyone that may be worried about kids or dogs knocking it over @Rion Buchanan.
what i read the other day said to use tea light candles but that seems to work too and prolly safer but sometime try it with the candle maybe youd have even better results if the problem re occurs
I saw this experiment on UA-cam a while back and the water was in a shallow plate, not as deep as your dish. Do you think it's harder for them to land in your deeper dish? Try a plate about one cm deep.
My 2 cents… or more like tree-fitty … anyway… … He’s been thanks great video. I appreciate your open minded curiosity. It produces some good out-of-the-box thinking. The most successful high-volume flea trap I ever made started out with a large sheet of white shelf paper that I already had, but turned around with the sticky side out… I just taped it to part of a pizza box, I think. In the middle of that, was a bowl; actually, I think it was a very small dorm-size little crockpot type thing, and I had “baited it“ with some really potent iron powder that I got from opening a couple of my wife’s mega iron-for-anemia capsules, on the odd chance that it might give off some odor that the fleas would interpret as blood, and that just went in with a small amount of as unscented as I could find dish soap and water. You only need enough to break the surface tension of the water, which isn’t much. What I added, because I had seen so many things about how carbon dioxide attracts fleas and many other things, after racking my brain trying to figure out a way to generate some carbon dioxide that would last a few hours, what I came up with was an even smaller bowl or Dixie cup, or whatever it was… That had molasses, a little water, and some common Fleischmanns brewer’s yeast that would just sit down in the water, detergent, iron supplement “moat” inside the crockpot and exhale the imitation mammal-breath. I kept the air circulation in the room to a minimum in the hopes that the heavier co2 would flow down to the carpet, and just creep along staying down where the fleas are… Needless to say, leaving that overnight, when I checked on it the next day, the shelf paper looked like it had been sprinkled with black pepper, A black layer of dead fleas marinated at the bottom of the crockpot, and a bunch of them were clinging to the sides of the crockpot, just anywhere there was a surface. I kept replenishing that until it seemed to only be catching a few, and THEN started including it in my maintenance program that I use in the house during flea season. This particular case was, literally, by orders of magnitude, the most extreme case of infestation I have ever seen… It was in a place where nobody walked, but that the cats previously frequented - that they now clearly avoided. In such a case, a person could dial up the intensity bye maintaining a much higher CO2 concentration by maintaining a large block of dry ice which of course sublimates directly into the gaseous form, but leaving it in a monolithic block will slow that down over just powdering it with small pieces. This would facilitate an initial massive knockdown of the population that is obviously not easily sustained, but in such a target rich environment, give you the most bang for your buck … They don’t give that stuff away for free … but it appears to be readily available… The little town I live in has a Walmart that keeps it, as well as an H-E-B that keeps it, and there may even be others that I don’t know about… Meat lockers, deer-processing outfits etc. Anyway, one could use it to increase the attractiveness of the trap, and possibly cut the population in that area by a very large margin, leaving a much more manageable situation. Let me hasten to add here, if someone is considering doing something like this, this method, while trapping as well as killing the fleas, by no means excuses one from the necessity of vacuuming like a person possessed… The presence of flea eggs, larvae, and pupal stages that aren’t really mobile must be dealt with, and especially in combination with powders that dehydrate all manner of carpet contaminants, rendering them more easily removed, (… I’ve used commercially available carpet powders, diatomaceous earth, plain corn starch, baking soda, and even Sevin-dust,) but whatever I happened to use seemed to help a lot, so I would just use whatever I had available) in combination with a thorough vacuuming is a critical part of this methodology. IM in an unusually fortunate situation in that I inherited a very old school Orick brand upright vacuum that’s probably almost as old as I am (7/4/59) that puts modern upright vacuums to shame it seems, especially in compacted, dense, deep-fiber carpets. They even still make HEPA-grade disposable filter bags that fit the old battleship, and yes, changing those out is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth it because they are very thorough, and they keep the fleas contained inside until you can get it outside into the dumpster or whatever… … Well here I’ve done it again… I set out to just post a simple helpful hint or idea, and I wind up writing a non-fiction short-story that … well, … really isn’t all that short… Sorry about that, but if you’ve read this far, bless your heart, and I am truly humbled,… I hope maybe some of this helps, or at least triggered a smile or a chuckle … Hey, it gets to where you can’t do what you want anymore, so you just do WHAT you can, as BEST you can, WHEN you can, with WHATEVER you can get your hands on… Sucks getting old doesn’t it? Lol
@@thatfeeble-mindedboy I'm with you, don't worry take me with a grain of salt. On occasion I can be a douche for no obvious reasons. I'm working on it.
Think if you used a plate, more could jump in. Also, cedar oil works well for putting on the wood floors. They hare cedar oil. Most sprays to kills them in yards, has cedar oil.
I received the following recipe from the channel "Veterinary Secrets" as a weekly flea repellent for cats and dogs. Spray it on them lightly then comb it through their fur. 1/2 cup witch hazel with aloe (Thayer's brand) 2 tbsp melted coconut oil 2 ml (40 drops) of Neem oil 2 ml (40 drops) cedarwood essential oil 1 tbsp Castile soap Mix all ingredients in a 1-cup glass measuring cup then transfer into a small glass spray bottle. I also spray it on my patio door track.
I've recently discovered my house here in southern Louisiana where it's usually warm, wet year round..a flea heaven, my flea hell. My poor dog is INFESTED with fleas, gotten worse & it's Dec. which i thought fleas would die.. NO they're worse 😭 today i take on the task of bathing/flea dipping my fur baby & containing her in a freshly treated area after her bath temp. til I clean/treat her living area. My home is ALL hardwood floors, no throw rugs down thank God... NEVER have i had or seen fleas invade my home carpet/otherwise. I'm BEYOND frustrated, my dog itching non stop even after flea pill at vets & me getting weird itchy new bites on my legs mostly but couple on my arm. watching your video I feel something on bare leg with light on phone I seen it was A FLEA! I NEVER thought they could live as long on hardwood was raised in Wyoming total opposite climates & told carpets worse. watching your video disgusted me cause I'm now having this issue & it's frustrating & gross etc... I see your home in video isn't cluttered dirty etc so you have my attention now lol fleas don't just live in filth as I was taught as a child.. I'm gonna try your tricks in video & see how it plays out. Any other positive feedback please comment. What's min time you leave water out? & do I change water as needed when fleas jump in or wait certain amount of time for it to work better? STILL shocked over hardwood flooring harder to treat than carpet ugh. Praying this works, wish me luck lol
Diatomaceous earth is very cheap (about $8. for a 4lb bag) and effective insect killer. Its nontoxic to people or pets. You can cast it over your lawn and around your carpets, rugs and furniture; leave it for 24 hours and then vacuum carpets and sweep floors. Don't worry, there is plenty left to be effective. Outdoors, even if it rains, the D.E. traces still remain where you cast it.
Sorry it’s late and hope you found a long lasting remedy. My neighbour has a cat and my dog uses the shared garden which I’ve found out this is where she keeps getting the odd flea. I Googled home remedies and Apple Cider vinegar works wonders 50/50 water.. i doused my apartment in every nook and cranny. It’s brilliant for pet skin issues and allergies too. My dogs coat is amazing and so soft and shiny 👍
Feel for you, we had a flea infestation for the first time ever my cat was 18 , I didn't know what what was it was.4 weeks of cleaning, hoovering and washing bed clothes, nightmare, it went after 6 cans of flea spray, I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. This was December time , I feel you pain.I flea my cat every 3 weeks now with Advantage it works.👍
so we had the same problem in a rental house we own. Actually it was only in the office of that house. I thought i did everything including vacuuming, spraying a ton of chemical and even having a pest control company come in. After 2 months we would still see the occasional flea hop on us if we went in that room. I did a ton of research on how fleas live, lay eggs, sprinkle dried blood and flea crap around their eggs and WHY you can't kill them until they hatch. I decided to buy a can of flea killing spray (from Lowe's) and figure out where they were hibernating. I found anything that had the look of flea droppings and wiped and sprayed them all. I also took any pillows, bedding, and anything else that had flea remnants on them and put them in white plastic garbage bags and sprayed the inside of the bags and then sealed them. The fleas are not solely attracted to heat, they also look for movement and vibration to wake them up. Wipe up the nests and that will eliminate the problem. Took me 3.5 hours to fix the problem for good. The bags I filled had hundreds of fleas that hatched and died while sealed. there were so many more fleas than I ever thought. You need to kill the nesting spots.
Do you have dogs is this the reason for the flea problem I have dogs and I have issues with fleas here in the house I also have hardwood floors throughout
the light does help to keep fleas away from you while you sleep .I simply put a bowl of water under a night light wall plug in.ya it sucks I also had to use harsh chemicals because I have wood floors and no carpet.Good video and the sticky tape I thought it would work better( bummer but great idea)
I have an infestation every year. I do the water but don't use a light. I use any dish soap, a light colored plastic bowl, like white or bright orange. Works like a charm for me, day or night. The bowls are loaded within a few days. No light necessary.
How long does it take for them to all die? We’ve been having a flea problem inside the house, even tho I only find a few fleas everyday I’m afraid it will keep getting worse, what helps get rid of them indoors? and should I only clean the carpets and wood floors?
We have hardwood floors TO and 3 cats. We are currently battling a flea invasion. What I have found that kills more fleas on hardwood, than anything else we've tried, is to vaccum every inch of floor space and then mop every inch of floor space with Murphy's Oil Soap. Thanks for posting this. My husband wanted to try it, now we know it's not for us.
I moved into an apt that had fleas on May 4 2021 that were biting me in the kitchen and on my living room floor that caused inflammation and huge red whelps. I couldn't see the fleas but I had a huge 16 yr old plant that had to sit on the floor to keep from blocking the window light. When I was taking the pot to bathroom to rinse and water I found over one hundred white wiggly things in the saucer to discover they were flea larva. I went into panic over load. I rinse out the saucer and started rinsing the plant with water in the shower. I used my 40% DEET insect repellant on my plant. I had originaly used soapy water because I thought midge flies, biting knats or noseums, were the problems for my rash. Once I discovered the larvae were flea larvae I rushed to store to get diatomaceous earth to cover plant, Black Flag spray for flea and tick even spray for bedbugs and tick and fleas and sprayed floors, furniture, baseboards, closets you name it. I have a bug phobia. I bought flea traps to check out the population and got maybe three fleas then I resprayed everything. I moved the huged plant outside and will divide my Clivia into 4 plants, wash off the soil and respray the soil to make sure all bugs are gone. I am using the Black Flag spray. I will repot the bulbs into 4 smaller pots. Will also spray neq potting soil with alcohol. Plants will not sit on the floor ever again. I hope to move from this dark, moldy, flea riddled place. I was forced to move here and know I have other options. I needed to vent. People check your animals for flea whenever they go outside. They suffer also. Apt managers vacuum your bldg daily and do flea checks since you allow pets. The tenants pay an unrefunded deposit and pet rental for this to be taken care of.
I am fighting the same thing and here is some things I learned. Mop the entire house with bleach water mix. It doesn't need to be very strong 1- 1/2 oz. to 1 gal. or so. Use the same mixture in a spray bottle to get under appliances. They love hiding under them. Use a safe indoor flea killer to treat sofas and get the fabric covering under them. You can use the bleach mix, but test it first so you don't ruin your furniture. After that, you will have better luck with the water traps. I put Dawn/water mix in a spray bottle and one mist spray on top of the water is enough to trap them and you don't have to stir it that way. Also, white dishes work best for the traps.
Alcohol the 91% put in a spray bottle will work then spray your furniture with it ,that way you do not have to worry about the fabric getting bleached.
Diatomaceous earth is very cheap (about $8. for a 4lb bag) and effective insect killer. Its nontoxic to people or pets. You can cast it over your lawn and around your carpets, rugs and furniture; leave it for 24 hours and then vacuum carpets and sweep floors. Don't worry, there is plenty left to be effective. Outdoors, even if it rains, the D.E. traces still remain where you cast it.
I used the simpler design flea traps with sheets of sticky paper and a small light. I got 5 of them and put one in each room to determine the worst areas. If I had used a bowl of water, my cat would drink it. This was a method of measuring our progress in getting rid of these pests. There also was a university paper published on what light frequency worked best to attract fleas.
I know I'm a little late posting this but what would help is putting a sheet of blank paper under the tray of water. Fleas are attracted to the color white. Hope it helps others with issues.
Borax works-- although it can be messy it does work- it dries out the bodies of the fleas and the eggs- spread a box of borax on the floor and use a broom to move it around being sure to get it in all the cracks- leave a week vaccum and then repeat until problem is solved--- hope this helps
A finger rubbed in soap and then briefly in the water in the pan is all that is needed. Ya only need to break the surface tension of the water . Extra Dawn does nothing.
finally got rid of fleas. Nothing but vacuuming and washing floors...and brushing the cat 2-3 times each day with a FLEA COMB! After checking him once or twice a week after the whole ordeal, no bites, no dirt, and no scratching. It changed my outlook on using flea medication...it may be much much more tedious with a regular flea comb, but it can work.
You came to the right conclusion having to bug bomb the place. The fleas you catch have left eggs like 3 days prior so you gotta get those too. Ive had fleas a couple times. I just carried around tape so i could stick any i saw or that jumped on me until I had the exterminator come out
+ashleytoreal absolutely! They will jump onto your clothes and go back home with you and start reproducing at your house, in your car and in your yard. It only takes a few to start an infestation.
You need a bigger tray of water because the light you are using has a very wide beam of light. If you don't have one (such as a roasting tray or a cookie sheet with sides or both) I would double up on pans of soapy water.
I tried tried this with a regular lightbulb that gets very hot. From Sept to Nov it worked great! Got hundreds. Thought the problem was almost gone. Right before Christmas a horrible infestation hit & have put the same traps all over the house and not caught one! I'm baffled. I stopped letting my cat out in Nov plus she gets flea treatments every 30 days. I have about 200 bites on me & am combing some tiny ones off my cat but she is miserable also. Any ideas why they will no longer work?
You have to treat every 2 weeks for 3 treatments. You bomb the house and spray the yard and treat the animals. If you don’t do inside and out your defeating the purpose.
Thats cool that it worked for you. Thanks for the demonstration. I think im going to have to get a little more tactical. Do this for the inside because like you i have hardwood floors. But i have also got to treat the outside as well. I will use candle light and a pan. For outside and inside aftet i dust the yard.
Try not putting the light directly over it. They run from light they just like the heat. I’ve gotten over 100 fleas in 3 days. Also, using a plate with a small candle in the center then put enough water on the plate so it doesn’t spill over. I use salt on my floors and carpet then leave it for a week, It’ll get in all the cracks in the wood floors and work it’s way to the bottom of the carpet and stay there. and dehydrate the flea larvae. baking soda works too. I vacuum my wood floors just like my carpets. I made a homemade lavender spray that I use on bedding and everything else daily. They can’t stand the smell. They don’t like Peppermint either so I’m gonna get some peppermint plants.
First room lamp was way to close to bowl to allow for them to jump in. Also bowl edges are too high for them to jump in easy, that's why all the others were on the floor. Use a plate and keep light a good couple inches away from a plate with the water in it.
Thanks for leaving your post open. It was very helpful and enlightening to read ALL the comments and they helped me make a decision as to how to proceed to getting rid of fleas in my house. Good luck to everyone who shares this issue.
I call these traps a "flea circus", ha ! Your traps are good, but I would make two adjustments. One adjustment would be to use an extension with a night light instead of a lamp. For the night light, don't use an LED light bulb, use the light bulbs that get hot, fleas are attracted by the light and it's warmth. You have to remember how fleas can jump pretty high, and if your lamp covers a huge area of the container, the fleas are going to be hitting the lamp instead of falling into the container. The second adjustment I would make to your trap is to use vegetable oil instead of water and soap. I used water and soap at the beginning but the problem with that, is that water evaporates in a couple of days. With vegetable oil on the other hand, you could have the trap set for over a year and the oil will still be there. Oil is also thick, making it a deadly quicksand for fleas. This flea circus does eliminate fleas completely, you have to remember that the fleas lay eggs, lots of eggs. So after you eliminate the fleas, guess what ? The eggs will hatch later on, make it seem like you haven't gotten rid off the fleas. But you are going to be able to eliminate the fleas with this trap using vegetable oil. After days, you are going to start noticing smaller fleas, indicating that you have gotten rid off the adult fleas and now the newly hatched fleas are the ones remaining. I would leave the trap on 24/7, and don't be fooled, when it seems like you got rid off the fleas, don't forget about the eggs, so don't remove the circus trap until you don't see one single flea fall into the trap for a month. I have a cat, so I have to use this flea circus trap every summer. I hope I helped you in anyway, I understand the pain and struggle, stupid fleas are 100 times worse than mosquito's !
EddieNanakase this was super helpful ive never though of using oil instead im on the "second wave" the tiny fleas ive salted the carpets and treated my animal so im gunna use the oil method thank you x
EddieNanakase
Unfortunately, oil of any type will not work. The reason that dish soap works, is because we have to change the the density of the water. When that is changed, that is why the fleas cannot come out of the water. If oil is applied to the water, they will be able to float on top of the water, thus, being able to jump out, and not dying.
All of these things have been tested for years by scientists trying to discover what will take care of the flea situation.
Another interesting fact about fleas, is the fact that you can place a flea in a glass of water for an hour. After an hour you can remove the flea, lay it aside on top of a paper towel, or something else, give it 24 hours, and it will in fact, revive itself.
Fleas do not actually drown, they're only held down in the water giving people the opportunity to flush them down a a water way.
Another study showed that, you could do the same thing with a flea up to 24 hours at the bottom of a container submerged in water. Give them up to 24 hours on a dry surface, and they will revive themselves. I found this astonishing. That's why it's very important that every flea be flushed down a toilet or sink.
D Hoosier I think he's talking oil without water dude
Solar McCoy
Not sure how that'd work.
I know for a fact the water, with a tiny amount of Dawn works. When its not broke,....Why fix it??
Also, I went ahead and purchased a Victor flea trap four days ago.
Yes, that works, too.
But, they're $15 each.
Geeee. The homemade version is best way to go.
They work much better if the container (or possibly bottom) is WHITE.
Ellan Kane
Not sure how that'd work.
I know for a fact the water, with a tiny amount of Dawn works. When its not broke,....Why fix it??
Also, I went ahead and purchased a Victor flea trap four days ago.
Yes, that works, too.
But, they're $15 each.
Geeee. The homemade version is best way to go.
They work much better if the container (or possibly bottom) is WHITE.
I'd like to know how the oil worked.
Really laughed out at "Let's see what we've got. A moth,.... and 2 fleas. Well that's a bit disappointing" 😂
“A moth... and two fleas... kind of disappointing...” 😂
That's all I got left in my jeans left pocket 😒....IM BROKE
2 fleas better than none that's 2 fleas dead
sounds like a bar joke
Another tip is to place a plant beside the trap. The light attracts them, but the plant helps attract them as they are sensitive to carbon dioxide that plants release at night. Dormant flea pupae are particularly sensitive to carbon dioxide, so this may be a great way to catch young fleas before they have a chance to lay eggs. Works for me.
what plant specifically?
you're literally blocking the fleas from the water because you put the lamp way too close
the lamp has to be quite a bit above the water so they will jump into the water. not on the lamp
put it higher
Very good video. I didn't want it to end
Keep up the great work
Wow you did a great job with this experiment!! I purchased that little mini version like you suggested and that thing didn’t do anything on a house I used to live in that was infested with fleas in the neighborhood.
Whoa! Good job! Get a lent roller to get the ones around the bowl! Lol
Fleas take at least 24 hours to drown.
You have to add a little dish soap after you fill the bowl & swirl it around with your finger. Just a tiny amount of soap. The water should still be clearish and not sudsy. The fleas will drown under a minute in the water with soap solution.
Doesnt the soap kill them before they're able to drown,?
@@migueltigrelazo No. The soap softens the water so that fleas (among other insects) can't stand on the water and they then sink and drown.
One time I sealed over my wood floor with polyurethane. Eggs get in the cracks between the boards. It worked
Using low white plates to put dish soap water in. Putting one in every room will knock out a flea problem quickly.
Also vaccuuming helps
I love the sticky pad idea.. I will be trying that also, in addition to the mixture I already have sitting out
You may also find the traps draw fles from a larger area if you reduce the temperature in your home. The fleas are atracted to the heat, but if they are comfortable near a reliable food source (you in your bed, kids on the couch Etc.) they will only stray to another heat source if it is more atractive to them. The cooler the environment the further away they will detect the heat source.
That's awesome the lint rollers Perfect!!! Maybe try a big tote lid or one of those smaller dog pools and just cut it down So that there is only an inch of a lip thank you for these ideas I'm going to try the Tote lid and my ducklings heat lamp!!! 👍🏼
Also, vacuum the floors every day. Put some diatomaceous earth in the vacuum bag if has bag system. If bagless, just clean it after each vacuuming and seal up trash so the don't jump out. Daily floor cleaning is essential to get the eggs and larva. Do keep diatomaceous in corners. And don't forget to clean under furniture also. Fleas hide in the dark.
We tried the Diatomaceous with no success.
*They'll jump in the water & DIIIIEEE!"*
that made me laugh..
It works
BenTheBondsman Does it have to be Dawn or will any name brand.do???
@@shellyhomman1541 u can use Palmolive! But i and most people who have used this remedy for years would agree Dawn dish soap is the best. especially washing your dogs. first scrub them down with Dawn and let sit for 3-5min, Rinse them off and then use whatever brand dog shampoo you been using. i would recomend( Four in one) calming formula.the brand is made by (WAHL) mixing dog shampoo with Lavender chamomile mix to conditioner hair. it works great and your dog will be vedy happy and smooth.👍
@@royparker2546 Dawn doesn't develop the residue other brands like Palmolive leaves after sitting for 2 or 3 days. If you put Dawn in one and Palmolive or cheap stuff in another, the Dawn solution will still look cleaner but the other one will look cloudy and have strings of egg white looking streaks.
Sweetheart they will jump into the water if he put more soap in it the lamp heats the water acting like warm bidy heat when they get into the soapy water they get stuck thats all the soap and lamp are for but his whole house is infested bad .when you can literally see them on the floor like that its bad .hes just to damn cheap to want to pay for bombs or an exterminater .ill be damb if i live in a house full of fleas or any other kind of bugs that bad .i hate bugs in my home i gues you could say im a clean nut .
This year, I put down granules and lightly watered it. I used spray that goes on the water hose. I used a spray you mix in water and use in a sprayer. I used Adams dip on my dogs. Then within the same month after a good rain, I was outside and got 30 on my legs. I checked my dogs and they were infested. Insane. I bought some dip/yard spray that is 4 times the strength and went over the whole yard 3 times. Dipped the dogs a couple of times. Still a few fleas on the dogs. Used coconut oil, apple cidar vinegar, D. Earth, dishwashing soap and still a few fleas. Just worked Vinegar into the fur real good. It's under control now, but I will have to spray again I'm sure when the eggs hatch. Planning to put down this termite treatment in the yard soon. Trying to keep the fleas out of the house too.
Good ideal, man dawn dish soap has a lot of uses !
@@colebrown8293 every one lets give him a hand the new troll spelling police !
that's crazy came across your vid cause i have same problem in my house all wood floors i used cold water and soap and within 2 min i got 3. i didn't use a light or anything i just put it close to where we all sit and boom magic love the vid and upon looking at your other vids you got a new sub!
Looks like you have a lot of good suggestions in the comments.
We also used a rug doctor and vacuum to suck them up and then clean the machine out or spray the filters with Raid.
Good to see ya brother.
Use a cookie sheet and move the light slightly higher.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video!! .. Good idea even if it kills only a few of them. . At least you will learn that you have fleas!! .. Love your sense of humor!!! (:
This method REALLY works, as you've showed. When I have to spray, I use Cedarcide. It's made in the USA, is non-toxic to humans and pets and can even be sprayed on a newborn baby. It will even kill spiders and scorpions! It is an indiscriminate killer, however, and should only be used indoors. It's great for traveling with, as you can prevent picking up bedbugs/fleas from hotels/motels that you visit. Make no mistake, those buggers are found in fancy hotels, too. Thanks for posting!
so ood to see you back
Great experiments, going to give this a try
Ahh going to have to quit watching man I'm starting to itch.
+Hydrogrow Me too!
JP Brewer me too😂😂😂😂😂
PEPE!!!!!
That made me laugh ha-ha
yeap im there too time to hit the showers
use tea light candles on a plate with your soap mixture your lamp is to close to bowl
+Tiffany Wilson It was too close but it all worked out in the end
Tiffany Wilson ya but that's dangerous for kids and animals
Yes! That's exactly how I make my traps. And battery operated, flameless candles can be used for anyone that may be worried about kids or dogs knocking it over @Rion Buchanan.
@@BenTheBondsman cheap torches work too, you just tie them to a chair leg etc....they may not resolve the problem but they do help a lot x
Tiffany you are cute AF!💯🥰😍
what i read the other day said to use tea light candles but that seems to work too and prolly safer but sometime try it with the candle maybe youd have even better results if the problem re occurs
it worked for me.
try using raid carpet and flea.
it may be chemicals but its worth it.
What is the name of the product to mop your floor and how did it do?
I saw this experiment on UA-cam a while back and the water was in a shallow plate, not as deep as your dish. Do you think it's harder for them to land in your deeper dish? Try a plate about one cm deep.
I wonder if you had the light a bit too close to the water, essentially blocking the water with the light.
I love your excitement! down to earth too!
Thank you very much
Wow..That's a great idea. I can only imagine how bad my bedroom is. I'm giving this a try. Seems like flees are really bad this year!!'
+Jadyn's Mommy How did it turn out for you?
did you end up getting rid of them all? if not, I have some really really good suggestions.
I did, it took about 3 rounds of bug bombs and yard treatment.
Hey there I'd love to know your great suggestions, thanks so much
BenTheBondsman what kind of yard treatment..?
Big Truck Big RV well I would like to know since my dog just recently had fleas
Lyyit
This was fun to watch and i don't even have a flea problem. I just hate fleas!!!!!
That works buddy. We have used dawn dish detergent and water before.
Moth got a little too excited when he saw the lamp
My 2 cents… or more like tree-fitty … anyway… … He’s been thanks great video. I appreciate your open minded curiosity. It produces some good out-of-the-box thinking. The most successful high-volume flea trap I ever made started out with a large sheet of white shelf paper that I already had, but turned around with the sticky side out… I just taped it to part of a pizza box, I think. In the middle of that, was a bowl; actually, I think it was a very small dorm-size little crockpot type thing, and I had “baited it“ with some really potent iron powder that I got from opening a couple of my wife’s mega iron-for-anemia capsules, on the odd chance that it might give off some odor that the fleas would interpret as blood, and that just went in with a small amount of as unscented as I could find dish soap and water. You only need enough to break the surface tension of the water, which isn’t much. What I added, because I had seen so many things about how carbon dioxide attracts fleas and many other things, after racking my brain trying to figure out a way to generate some carbon dioxide that would last a few hours, what I came up with was an even smaller bowl or Dixie cup, or whatever it was… That had molasses, a little water, and some common Fleischmanns brewer’s yeast that would just sit down in the water, detergent, iron supplement “moat” inside the crockpot and exhale the imitation mammal-breath. I kept the air circulation in the room to a minimum in the hopes that the heavier co2 would flow down to the carpet, and just creep along staying down where the fleas are… Needless to say, leaving that overnight, when I checked on it the next day, the shelf paper looked like it had been sprinkled with black pepper, A black layer of dead fleas marinated at the bottom of the crockpot, and a bunch of them were clinging to the sides of the crockpot, just anywhere there was a surface. I kept replenishing that until it seemed to only be catching a few, and THEN started including it in my maintenance program that I use in the house during flea season. This particular case was, literally, by orders of magnitude, the most extreme case of infestation I have ever seen… It was in a place where nobody walked, but that the cats previously frequented - that they now clearly avoided. In such a case, a person could dial up the intensity bye maintaining a much higher CO2 concentration by maintaining a large block of dry ice which of course sublimates directly into the gaseous form, but leaving it in a monolithic block will slow that down over just powdering it with small pieces. This would facilitate an initial massive knockdown of the population that is obviously not easily sustained, but in such a target rich environment, give you the most bang for your buck … They don’t give that stuff away for free … but it appears to be readily available… The little town I live in has a Walmart that keeps it, as well as an H-E-B that keeps it, and there may even be others that I don’t know about… Meat lockers, deer-processing outfits etc. Anyway, one could use it to increase the attractiveness of the trap, and possibly cut the population in that area by a very large margin, leaving a much more manageable situation. Let me hasten to add here, if someone is considering doing something like this, this method, while trapping as well as killing the fleas, by no means excuses one from the necessity of vacuuming like a person possessed… The presence of flea eggs, larvae, and pupal stages that aren’t really mobile must be dealt with, and especially in combination with powders that dehydrate all manner of carpet contaminants, rendering them more easily removed, (… I’ve used commercially available carpet powders, diatomaceous earth, plain corn starch, baking soda, and even Sevin-dust,) but whatever I happened to use seemed to help a lot, so I would just use whatever I had available) in combination with a thorough vacuuming is a critical part of this methodology. IM in an unusually fortunate situation in that I inherited a very old school Orick brand upright vacuum that’s probably almost as old as I am (7/4/59) that puts modern upright vacuums to shame it seems, especially in compacted, dense, deep-fiber carpets. They even still make HEPA-grade disposable filter bags that fit the old battleship, and yes, changing those out is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth it because they are very thorough, and they keep the fleas contained inside until you can get it outside into the dumpster or whatever…
… Well here I’ve done it again… I set out to just post a simple helpful hint or idea, and I wind up writing a non-fiction short-story that … well, … really isn’t all that short… Sorry about that, but if you’ve read this far, bless your heart, and I am truly humbled,… I hope maybe some of this helps, or at least triggered a smile or a chuckle … Hey, it gets to where you can’t do what you want anymore, so you just do WHAT you can, as BEST you can, WHEN you can, with WHATEVER you can get your hands on… Sucks getting old doesn’t it? Lol
NOONE CAN READ ANY OF THAT RUN-ON SENTENCE
@@AgeofReason
@@thatfeeble-mindedboy I'm with you, don't worry take me with a grain of salt. On occasion I can be a douche for no obvious reasons. I'm working on it.
Thank you so much this really helps
Does it have to be dish soap?
Think if you used a plate, more could jump in. Also, cedar oil works well for putting on the wood floors. They hare cedar oil. Most sprays to kills them in yards, has cedar oil.
I received the following recipe from the channel "Veterinary Secrets" as a weekly flea repellent for cats and dogs. Spray it on them lightly then comb it through their fur.
1/2 cup witch hazel with aloe (Thayer's brand)
2 tbsp melted coconut oil
2 ml (40 drops) of Neem oil
2 ml (40 drops) cedarwood essential oil
1 tbsp Castile soap
Mix all ingredients in a 1-cup glass measuring cup then transfer into a small glass spray bottle. I also spray it on my patio door track.
Are you vacuuming and mopping daily and washing any pet bedding?
I've recently discovered my house here in southern Louisiana where it's usually warm, wet year round..a flea heaven, my flea hell. My poor dog is INFESTED with fleas, gotten worse & it's Dec. which i thought fleas would die.. NO they're worse 😭 today i take on the task of bathing/flea dipping my fur baby & containing her in a freshly treated area after her bath temp. til I clean/treat her living area. My home is ALL hardwood floors, no throw rugs down thank God... NEVER have i had or seen fleas invade my home carpet/otherwise. I'm BEYOND frustrated, my dog itching non stop even after flea pill at vets & me getting weird itchy new bites on my legs mostly but couple on my arm. watching your video I feel something on bare leg with light on phone I seen it was A FLEA! I NEVER thought they could live as long on hardwood was raised in Wyoming total opposite climates & told carpets worse. watching your video disgusted me cause I'm now having this issue & it's frustrating & gross etc... I see your home in video isn't cluttered dirty etc so you have my attention now lol fleas don't just live in filth as I was taught as a child.. I'm gonna try your tricks in video & see how it plays out. Any other positive feedback please comment. What's min time you leave water out? & do I change water as needed when fleas jump in or wait certain amount of time for it to work better? STILL shocked over hardwood flooring harder to treat than carpet ugh. Praying this works, wish me luck lol
Diatomaceous earth is very cheap (about $8. for a 4lb bag) and effective insect killer. Its nontoxic to people or pets. You can cast it over your lawn and around your carpets, rugs and furniture; leave it for 24 hours and then vacuum carpets and sweep floors. Don't worry, there is plenty left to be effective. Outdoors, even if it rains, the D.E. traces still remain where you cast it.
Sorry it’s late and hope you found a long lasting remedy. My neighbour has a cat and my dog uses the shared garden which I’ve found out this is where she keeps getting the odd flea. I Googled home remedies and Apple Cider vinegar works wonders 50/50 water.. i doused my apartment in every nook and cranny. It’s brilliant for pet skin issues and allergies too. My dogs coat is amazing and so soft and shiny 👍
Did you find a flea solution Tammy?
@@susiearviso3032 it did not work for me and now my vacuum is dead. This powder is a motor killer!
Feel for you, we had a flea infestation for the first time ever my cat was 18 , I didn't know what what was it was.4 weeks of cleaning, hoovering and washing bed clothes, nightmare, it went after 6 cans of flea spray, I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. This was December time , I feel you pain.I flea my cat every 3 weeks now with Advantage it works.👍
Mr Ben I got a dog and house is all wood floors . How did u get fleas in wood floors ?
so we had the same problem in a rental house we own. Actually it was only in the office of that house. I thought i did everything including vacuuming, spraying a ton of chemical and even having a pest control company come in. After 2 months we would still see the occasional flea hop on us if we went in that room. I did a ton of research on how fleas live, lay eggs, sprinkle dried blood and flea crap around their eggs and WHY you can't kill them until they hatch. I decided to buy a can of flea killing spray (from Lowe's) and figure out where they were hibernating. I found anything that had the look of flea droppings and wiped and sprayed them all. I also took any pillows, bedding, and anything else that had flea remnants on them and put them in white plastic garbage bags and sprayed the inside of the bags and then sealed them. The fleas are not solely attracted to heat, they also look for movement and vibration to wake them up. Wipe up the nests and that will eliminate the problem. Took me 3.5 hours to fix the problem for good. The bags I filled had hundreds of fleas that hatched and died while sealed. there were so many more fleas than I ever thought. You need to kill the nesting spots.
Also they're attracted to CO2
Big Truck Big RV
What if we don't know where the nest is?
Finding the nest is the fastest way to wipe them out but finding the nest is difficult
how did you find the nest?
Would throwing your bed linens in the hot cycle have killed them as well without chemicals? How did you find the nest??
Do you have dogs is this the reason for the flea problem I have dogs and I have issues with fleas here in the house I also have hardwood floors throughout
the light does help to keep fleas away from you while you sleep .I simply put a bowl of water under a night light wall plug in.ya it sucks I also had to use harsh chemicals because I have wood floors and no carpet.Good video and the sticky tape I thought it would work better( bummer but great idea)
I have an infestation every year. I do the water but don't use a light. I use any dish soap, a light colored plastic bowl, like white or bright orange. Works like a charm for me, day or night. The bowls are loaded within a few days. No light necessary.
How long does it take for them to all die? We’ve been having a flea problem inside the house, even tho I only find a few fleas everyday I’m afraid it will keep getting worse, what helps get rid of them indoors? and should I only clean the carpets and wood floors?
The light attracts them because of the heat.
I just found this video. I never knew someone could have a flea problem with hardwood flooring, wild. I guess they found something to nest in
They nest under couches, and other darker areas with fabrics, drapes etc
We have hardwood floors TO and 3 cats. We are currently battling a flea invasion. What I have found that kills more fleas on hardwood, than anything else we've tried, is to vaccum every inch of floor space and then mop every inch of floor space with Murphy's Oil Soap. Thanks for posting this. My husband wanted to try it, now we know it's not for us.
Bug Stop sprayed on the baseboards will do miracles.
does it have to be dawn or any dish soap
You need to Fog up that place up! Thanks for sharing though..good luck!
Can I use any soap?
“They saw the fate of their buddies” lol
I Think You need a flatter dish without high edges 👍
That's crazy it worked
Use a more shallow basin like a paper plate...something that the younger critters can jump into!
Vacuum everyday, mop everyday, clean all bedding everyday, go to do it yourself pest control.
You need a saucer if your going to use the water or just keep hoovering but frontline is brilliant
I moved into an apt that had fleas on May 4 2021 that were biting me in the kitchen and on my living room floor that caused inflammation and huge red whelps. I couldn't see the fleas but I had a huge 16 yr old plant that had to sit on the floor to keep from blocking the window light. When I was taking the pot to bathroom to rinse and water I found over one hundred white wiggly things in the saucer to discover they were flea larva. I went into panic over load. I rinse out the saucer and started rinsing the plant with water in the shower. I used my 40% DEET insect repellant on my plant. I had originaly used soapy water because I thought midge flies, biting knats or noseums, were the problems for my rash. Once I discovered the larvae were flea larvae I rushed to store to get diatomaceous earth to cover plant, Black Flag spray for flea and tick even spray for bedbugs and tick and fleas and sprayed floors, furniture, baseboards, closets you name it. I have a bug phobia. I bought flea traps to check out the population and got maybe three fleas then I resprayed everything. I moved the huged plant outside and will divide my Clivia into 4 plants, wash off the soil and respray the soil to make sure all bugs are gone. I am using the Black Flag spray. I will repot the bulbs into 4 smaller pots. Will also spray neq potting soil with alcohol. Plants will not sit on the floor ever again. I hope to move from this dark, moldy, flea riddled place. I was forced to move here and know I have other options. I needed to vent. People check your animals for flea whenever they go outside. They suffer also. Apt managers vacuum your bldg daily and do flea checks since you allow pets. The tenants pay an unrefunded deposit and pet rental for this to be taken care of.
I am fighting the same thing and here is some things I learned. Mop the entire house with bleach water mix. It doesn't need to be very strong 1- 1/2 oz. to 1 gal. or so. Use the same mixture in a spray bottle to get under appliances. They love hiding under them. Use a safe indoor flea killer to treat sofas and get the fabric covering under them. You can use the bleach mix, but test it first so you don't ruin your furniture. After that, you will have better luck with the water traps. I put Dawn/water mix in a spray bottle and one mist spray on top of the water is enough to trap them and you don't have to stir it that way. Also, white dishes work best for the traps.
Thank you for the bleach and water mix! I will try that!
Alcohol the 91% put in a spray bottle will work then spray your furniture with it ,that way you do not have to worry about the fabric getting bleached.
Diatomaceous earth is very cheap (about $8. for a 4lb bag) and effective insect killer. Its nontoxic to people or pets. You can cast it over your lawn and around your carpets, rugs and furniture; leave it for 24 hours and then vacuum carpets and sweep floors. Don't worry, there is plenty left to be effective. Outdoors, even if it rains, the D.E. traces still remain where you cast it.
I used the simpler design flea traps with sheets of sticky paper and a small light. I got 5 of them and put one in each room to determine the worst areas. If I had used a bowl of water, my cat would drink it. This was a method of measuring our progress in getting rid of these pests. There also was a university paper published on what light frequency worked best to attract fleas.
I doubt your cat drinks soapy water
do u need the lamp
I agree I won't use flea bombs or chemicals I will try this out Thankyou 😊👍
How about mopping with hot water and dawn?
I'm giving this a try , and I don't have any pets along with that I live in a studio apartment so I figure I have a 100% chance winning the war
Blue dawn, right?
As I Vacuum in the evenings, I get smaller younger fleas. Then, none. I will try the water pan but without the light.
Lower sides on the pan easier for them to drown lol
You can also place a small candle in the center of the pan instead of lights.
Best video ever!
I do this with a night light plugged in a receptical with a white bowl. Works great..
Agree. 200%. 👏🍎🤗
can you use the light from a flashlight?
+Andreea P.T i'm not sure if it's the light or the heat that they are attracted to. It would be worth a try
Hehe nice video I didn't have much luck with light and water with soap they say. Use a yellow bowl . Tape thing is pretty cool tho
I know I'm a little late posting this but what would help is putting a sheet of blank paper under the tray of water. Fleas are attracted to the color white. Hope it helps others with issues.
Fleas are attracted to Green light, not white
What about putting a piece of white paper underneath the bowl?
@ Benthebondsman you have just solved my basement problem
+Journey of Creative Mom it took a combination of this, foggers and sticky pads. It was a pain but it worked.
Your friend knows there's no hope he told you to get some promethazine 😂😂😂😂
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Borax works-- although it can be messy it does work- it dries out the bodies of the fleas and the eggs- spread a box of borax on the floor and use a broom to move it around being sure to get it in all the cracks- leave a week vaccum and then repeat until problem is solved--- hope this helps
the fleas are onto you lol
Kabrina Corso 😅😅😅😅😅good one
Kabrona Corso lol u a fool
It has worked well for me.
And diiiiieeeeeee 🙌🏼😂😂
A finger rubbed in soap and then briefly in the water in the pan is all that is needed. Ya only need to break the surface tension of the water . Extra Dawn does nothing.
You had the light too close to start with . Now they can jump in without the lite in the way
finally got rid of fleas. Nothing but vacuuming and washing floors...and brushing the cat 2-3 times each day with a FLEA COMB! After checking him once or twice a week after the whole ordeal, no bites, no dirt, and no scratching. It changed my outlook on using flea medication...it may be much much more tedious with a regular flea comb, but it can work.
Ugh! My darn dog hates the flea comb. I'll keep trying every day...
You came to the right conclusion having to bug bomb the place. The fleas you catch have left eggs like 3 days prior so you gotta get those too. Ive had fleas a couple times.
I just carried around tape so i could stick any i saw or that jumped on me until I had the exterminator come out
Question?? So what if someone else has fleas can they travel to another’s house by you being over there ???
+ashleytoreal absolutely! They will jump onto your clothes and go back home with you and start reproducing at your house, in your car and in your yard. It only takes a few to start an infestation.
Yes
Does any other dish soap work?
Yes all dish soap does is trap them so any dish soap will work.
You need a bigger tray of water because the light you are using has a very wide beam of light. If you don't have one (such as a roasting tray or a cookie sheet with sides or both) I would double up on pans of soapy water.
I tried tried this with a regular lightbulb that gets very hot. From Sept to Nov it worked great! Got hundreds. Thought the problem was almost gone. Right before Christmas a horrible infestation hit & have put the same traps all over the house and not caught one! I'm baffled. I stopped letting my cat out in Nov plus she gets flea treatments every 30 days. I have about 200 bites on me & am combing some tiny ones off my cat but she is miserable also. Any ideas why they will no longer work?
Cheryl It turned out that this was not the most effective way to deal with the issue. I ultimately had to use bug bombs
You have to treat every 2 weeks for 3 treatments. You bomb the house and spray the yard and treat the animals. If you don’t do inside and out your defeating the purpose.
just have a container with less high of a lip, those fleas aorund it cant jump over the lip cause its too high.
Thats cool that it worked for you. Thanks for the demonstration. I think im going to have to get a little more tactical. Do this for the inside because like you i have hardwood floors. But i have also got to treat the outside as well. I will use candle light and a pan. For outside and inside aftet i dust the yard.
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how do you get a flea infestation?
Dry summers
Try using a shallow dish like a cookie sheet it will be easier for them to jump in.
Try not putting the light directly over it. They run from light they just like the heat. I’ve gotten over 100 fleas in 3 days. Also, using a plate with a small candle in the center then put enough water on the plate so it doesn’t spill over. I use salt on my floors and carpet then leave it for a week, It’ll get in all the cracks in the wood floors and work it’s way to the bottom of the carpet and stay there. and dehydrate the flea larvae.
baking soda works too. I vacuum my wood floors just like my carpets.
I made a homemade lavender spray that I use on bedding and everything else daily. They can’t stand the smell. They don’t like Peppermint either so I’m gonna get some peppermint plants.
First room lamp was way to close to bowl to allow for them to jump in. Also bowl edges are too high for them to jump in easy, that's why all the others were on the floor. Use a plate and keep light a good couple inches away from a plate with the water in it.
You need a lower sided pan like a cookie sheet
And IT DOES WORK