Can you get rid of these with supermarket insecticide?
Inb4 how many, a single one has bitten me 7 or 8 times, and was killed on my back while gorging on my flesh.
But I'll fumigate my house for just in case.
I don't have dogs or rats, but those fricking pidgeons stop on my roof.
diatomaceous earth, you can buy it at most pet stores, you might even be able to find it at walmart. thoroughly dust your floors/bedding with it and then vacuum/wash every 3 or 4 days until you don't notice them anymore.
>until you don't notice them anymore.
That is too long.
I want to nuke them now.
bug bomb it is friend
DE doesn't do shit but ruin your lungs and frick up all your electronics.
DO NOT BUY DE
DO NOT USE DE INDOORS
Boric acid is not only cheaper, but it WORKS against fleas, roaches, ants, etc.
It is HARMLESS (unless you eat like 30kg of the stuff) and WORKS.
DE is fricking USELESS against fleas and most other pests. STOP shilling that moronic SHIT as a miracle cure IT DOESN'T WORK.
DE is shit, I tried it since my roommate had a dog and didn't want to hurt him, but it didn't faze the fleas.
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This right here is the shit. Kills adults, and has a chemical that makes the larvae or eggs unable to move to the next stage of their life cycle. The latter chemical sticks around for 6 months. From what I've read, the pros will just come in and spray this stuff.
The problem for me is the fleas are feeding on the stray cats in the alley and living outside in my carport. Every once in a while they'll hitch a ride in. They're not able to reproduce but I want to figure out a way to kill them off outside. Any suggestions?
dont care will keep shilling DE cause it just werks
It literally does not work on insects with hard body segments.
Would it kill worms? Sure. Maggots? Yeah probably.
I had bedbugs in an apartment. I threw one in a jar with DE and shook it DAILY for several WEEKS!
Guess what happened. Did the bedbug die? Did it get shredded like the DE shills want you to believe? "Dude DE is like tiny shards of glass that shred insects apart!"
No!
The bedbug was alive and well weeks later. It was happy. Flourishing. Not bothered at all about being completely incased in DE. You really thing a fricking flea will fare worse? Frick no don't be a fricking moron. DE does NOTHING to most household pests. LITERALLY NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!
So what does it do? It sticks around FOREVER in your home. Everything is going to be coated in a DE dust. It scratches up your glasses and screens, it clogs up PC fans and wears them out. It gets into your lungs where it rips that soft tissue to shreds.
So, in the end, do whatever you want. Shill whatever useless product you want to shill. Doesn't change the fact that DE is WORTHLESS for fleas or bedbugs or roaches or most other pests. It's a waste of time and money, and WILL hard you as the user of it one way or another.
Is this pasta? Because if it isn't it should be.
This. DE is terrible for pets lungs. (It's tiny shards of fossils/seashells. And it doesn't work.
ok sorry. it might have just been baking soda i used
I'd get some boric acid. $20 for 10lbs on amazon. Sprinkle it on your carpet, use it in your laundry.
If you have pets that bring them in then you're kind of fricked but the best poison for them is the poison you put in the back of the cat's neck.
That really does nuke them, read up on it, i think it nukes a whole family of bloodsuckers.
No pets.
The only animals having these are the fricking pidgeons stopping in my roof.
Birds have different blood sucker parasites. Tiny white lice so i don't know if the poison covers them. If you have fleas then the cat stuff really is the best.
My apartment was infested, the cat's dragged them in and i would pick dozens out of my legs even though i didn't let the cat's into my room.
Since the cats didn't go outside anymore one application of the poison on their necks solved the whole damn problem once and for all.
Go to the pet store, ask the clerk and buy one or two doses as though you had two cats.
It seems like it can't possibly work being just 5 or 10 ml of stuff but it fricking works, goddamn fleas are gone forever.
Might help if you say what poison.
I helped enough for anyone with reading comprehension to go to a goddamn pet shop and get it. I'm not your goddam google.
I've had wild birds and never saw fleas on them, just tiny lice, i know cat and dog fleas are different species too.
>I've had wild birds and never saw fleas on them, just tiny lice
Pidgeons don't even count as birds, they are flying rats.
The big birds carry fleas.
And rats.
Street cats too.
Neither of the latter two should be fricking around this high.
i never knew birds carried rats and street cats. thanks for the info
get someone to take care of the pigeons
i believe its called stooping
When I had a dog, I had good luck with a combination of yard treatment and s-methoprene (Precor, specifically). Also used the usual treatments on the dog, but you don't have pets so that doesn't apply.
The yard treatment you can get at any home improvement store. It's the bag of granules you put in a spreader and fling all over the place. The methoprene you'll probably have to order. It's a small bottle you mix with water and spray around the inside of the house. It's like $10-ish for a 1oz bottle of concentrate, but that goes a long way and works for a very long time. Up to 7 months, supposedly (I suspect it depends heavily on how often you vacuum/clean). I used it every 4 for good measure.
After I figured out the combo of yard stuff, methoprene, and pills for the dog, I never had problems with fleas again. Considering the fleas in my area are resistant to like three or four major insecticides, that's something of an achievement.
I got bitten again.
There might be exactly one flea, according to the number and frequency of bites.
I've sprayed over the counter insecticide multiple times, so I guess it is indeed resistant. But theoretically it should work on adult fleas.
I prepared a flea water and soap trap and left it all night, zero got caught. People say this catches hundreds over a single day.
I'm not even completely sure it is a flea. The distribution and grouping of the bites over the skin matches that of a flea, but might as well be the black fly, which I've seen around many times. But this should have died to the spray.
>I've sprayed over the counter insecticide multiple times
spray the edges of your floor against the walls. under your bed too if the bottle says its safe to do so
>I prepared a flea water and soap trap and left it all night, zero got caught.
set up more than just one. setup as many as you can
>I'm not even completely sure it is a flea.
most of these tricks work on other insects. for flies, you might also consider i think a vinegar trap. I think theres other liquid traps too that work well for flies. and for flies, fly paper works well
I got attacked by fleas for a few weeks. Didn't understand why. My only conclusion is some preggo b***h took a ride on my leg into my bedroom. It was a b***h. My technique is simple. Vacuum every day (I had carpet) and then lay on the floor with shorts on so your legs are exposed. You are the bait! The combination of killing leg bitters and the vaccum ended my incursion quick.
You need a proper residual insecticide. Call an exterminator who will have a licence for the good stuff. See if you can get Ectoban without a licence in your area, use it.
If you have a neighbor or adjoining apartment to your place, all of the prevention and extermination methods you try will be useless.
You may want to get one of those vacuum bags systems and just start bagging up everything you own; particularly linens, clothing, ECT. Keep those things bagged up for at least a month and ideally somewhere hot like your car. That will be pretty sure to kill any bugs in there, and fumigation will be more effective the more things you remove from your home first.
The eggs are harder to kill than the adults. You need to clean all the old pet hair and bedding areas. Even if you bug bomb those bastards will lay dormant for weeks or months and then surge free again worse than ever. Clean your carpets something serious. Rent a rug doc. Spray your yard with the nematodes that eat the larva.
I got rid of them effectively by doing what I called going nuclear. Basically I combined every method I could.
I spread some powder all over the floor. I think it was diatomaceous earth. might also have done borax and baking soda.
when i wasnt at work, I left the AC off and the curtains open, so that my apartment got to over 100F.
I sprayed flea killing spray all the places the bottle told me too.
and I set tons of water bowl traps.
Also very frequently changed my clothes, cleaned them, and showered. also frequently cleaned my sheets and blankets.
They were totally gone within 2 weeks
oh and i vacuumed multiple times a day
Spraying and Vacuuming seems to have worked so far.
Those people using water traps must be trapping a different insect, as they look too big on the videos. A flea is 0.6 mm long, you can't hardly see that.
I'll never know for sure what insect bit me and where.
Ex gardener and dog owner here.
These little bastards hide in the grass and hoop on your pants and dogs, the best way to deal with them is to use a specific insecticide. I live in Italy and the Nephorin is the shit. Totally odorless and kill all the small ones and the eggs too.
>eggs
Oh yea, for every flea you see there are 8 eggs/nymphs
Make sure you use whatever chemical but focus on the edge of the carpet where it meets the wall, and the side of the bed matress, those are where they live. Ultimately you're trying to put down any chemical that scratches the protective layer of their shell and it causes them to die soon afterwards.
If you don't have pets just make sure you vaccum the frick out of those places mentioned. They're not human flees so they can't reproduce while drinking human blood.