On the effective fight against fleas in the apartment

If you decide to fight with fleas in the apartment and at the same time think that simply sprinkling in the room, for example, Dichlorvos or some similar means, immediately get rid of parasites - well, you will have to upset. In most cases, such a simplified approach gives only a temporary result, and after a week or two, fleas reappear in the apartment. Therefore, before you run to the store for insect repellent, sit back and first learn more information on this issue, then to remove the fleas once and for all.

So, first of all it is necessary to understand that to fight with fleas in the apartment should be a complex. In this case, attention should be paid to the following points:

• It is necessary to destroy the fleas in the room itself.
• Get rid of fleas from pets (if these animals are).
• To destroy flea larvae in the apartment (many do not even know that such exist in nature in general, not to mention how they look and where to look for them).

Fleas, despite their tiny size and seeming simplicity, have a rather complicated life cycle, and at different stages of development adult individuals and flea larvae live separately from each other. Accordingly, the fight against fleas in an apartment must take into account their biology in order to be quick and successful.

For example, adult fleas stay mostly in secluded places close to their prey. Look for them should be under the bedding on which the pet sleeps, near the beds behind the baseboards or under the parquet, in the things in the closet, in the furniture - where they will not be disturbed for sure.

They do not eat anything except the blood of animals and humans, and therefore they always try to hide in places where they can easily reach any warm-blooded living creature.

On a note

Even if there are no pets in the apartment, fleas can feel comfortable in it, attacking only a person. Apartments on the ground floor are often exposed to flea infestations from basements that feed mainly on rats (the so-called basement fleas). Therefore, the absence of pets in the room is not a guarantee of the absence of fleas in it.

Flea larvae usually live in places where they can easily find food - various debris, rotting parts of plants, excrement of adult fleas with remnants of undigested blood. They are more often found in trays in animals, in bedding in cages and aquariums in hamsters and rats, in flower pots, and also in heaps of garbage on balconies.

Feedback

“We even had a curious case. The fleas were poisoned three times in two months, and in detail, with the treatment of the dog and the throwing out of its mat, even the linoleum on the balcony was raised. And they still start up! And what would you think? It turns out that they multiplied in a cage with rats at the daughter, and in the nest box itself, because in the cage itself the litter was constantly changing. And when the nest box was opened and all the reserves and the nest itself were shaken out, the flea larvae were visible-invisible ... ”

Oleg, Tiraspol

Finally, flea pupae, due to their protective sheath, are able to survive the treatment of an apartment with some insecticides. And even after successfully combating adult fleas and their larvae, new insects can be removed from the pupae in the future, which will then give rise to a new population of parasites in the room.

On a note

Apartments can meet different flea species, which only a specialist can distinguish from each other. In this case, for example, dog fleas easily attack cats, rats - dogs, and vice versa. This means that, for example, to fight with cat fleas in an apartment you need the same methods by which being hounded by fleas at all. Fortunately, all developed methods and measures of control imply an impact on all types of fleas, and almost always - on other unwanted insects in the apartment (cockroaches, bedbugs).

 

We display insects using special tools

Almost all modern insecticides are much more effective and convenient to use than traditional folk remedies. The composition of modern drugs include substances that have a toxic effect on insects, but relatively non-toxic to humans and warm-blooded animals.

Only in rare cases such insecticides can cause side effects, but if you follow the rules for their use, the risk of a possible negative effect can be minimized.

To deal with indoor fleas need to quickly and orderly.Breaks between successive steps in the processing room may give a chance to survive individual parasites and will lead to the fact that the fight with fleas in the apartment will have to again.

As a rule, the destruction of parasites in the room takes several hours. With severe contamination of the premises may require repeated preventive treatment, but the need for it usually occurs only in rare cases.

Before you deal with fleas in an apartment, you must do two things:

1. Find out how the parasites hit the house, and take steps to block such a path of their entry
2. If there are pets in the apartment, it is necessary to rid them of fleas and protect them from insects at least until the fleas are taken out of the room. On how to deal with fleas in pets, you can read in the relevant articles on our website, in the section "Fleas in animals." Here we only note that to protect the pet, you should use flea collars, drops on withers and sprays that provide protection for at least several days.

After that, you should proceed to the actual processing of the apartment from fleas, before making sure thatthat after processing they will not penetrate it again (for example, if the basement of an apartment building is teeming with fleas, then processing only one apartment may not have the desired effect - the basement itself must be processed).

 

Shut off the path of penetration of fleas in the room

As a rule, fleas enter the room in two ways:

1. On the pet hair from the street.
2. Independently by ventilation or through windows and doors from basements and yard areas.

Very rarely a flea can end up on a person’s clothing or in things brought to the room.

In order to prevent the infestation of fleas from pets, in the spring-summer season you should constantly wear anti-flea collars on them - this will protect pets from jumping fleas on their wool.

To prevent the entry of fleas from the street or other contaminated premises into the ventilation ducts, enclose sections from insect pests (moth sections are suitable) or bundles of wormwood and tansy.

Fleas often jump on their clothes while hunting from fox and badger holes, as well as when they are near the animals on a street in the city. If you notice this, clothes should be shaken out right on the street, without going into her apartment.

 

Choosing the means to fight fleas

Practice shows that it is safer, faster and easier to deal with fleas with aerosols, as well as with concentrates for dilution and subsequent spraying. The main advantage of such aerosols and sprays is the ability to penetrate narrow gaps and various hard-to-reach places.

The most well-known means for fleas include:

• Get microencapsulated drug (sold as a concentrate). The preparation includes a highly effective insecticide of chlorpyrifos of contact action. After processing the apartment, it is advisable not to carry out a total cleaning, and wash only those surfaces with which tenants come into contact most often.
• Drug executioner, quite effective also against bedbugs and linen lice. Requires dilution in a certain concentration. To process a two-room apartment, you will need to buy about 20 bottles, the cost of which will be about 1,400 rubles.
• Raptor from crawling insects - easy to use, as sold in finished form in aerosol cans and has a faint odor. Slightly inferior in effectiveness to previous means, but widely available and quite suitable for use in lightly infected apartments.
• Cucaracha and Tetrix are two related drugs that are considered insecticidal for professional use. Very effective, but have an unpleasant and persistent odor. Good for large basements and balconies. Each bottle of 50 ml is enough to handle an area of ​​100 square meters. m

Dusts (as various insecticidal powders call it today) are especially effective in combating flea larvae. Modern versions of Dichlorvos - Dichlorvos-Neo, Max Dichlorvos and others - are also quite effective and practically odorless, can be used in city apartments.

Folk remedies for fleas such as vinegar and kerosene are inferior in effectiveness to the above preparations, and their strong odor greatly complicates the whole procedure of treating the apartment.

 

We treat the apartment from fleas

The general sequence for treating an apartment from fleas is as follows:

1. Out of all available means, which is optimally suited for price, safety and efficacy, is selected.
2. All tenants and pets are taken out of the apartment.
3. All windows are closed.
4. The tool handles all surfaces in the apartment, the places where fleas and their larvae hide, shelves in closets, storerooms and storage rooms.
5. The room closes and is allowed to infuse for 3-4 hours.
6. The apartment is aired and wet cleaning is carried out.

When using a particular drug in the specified plan may be amended.

Sometimes, when there are a lot of fleas in the apartment and at the time of processing there are a lot of eggs and pupae in it, which are more resistant to insecticides, fleas may appear again several days later after processing. In this case, at the peak of their hatching - after 10-14 days after the first treatment - the room should be processed again.

 

Trust flea control to professionals

Finally, you can fight with fleas in the apartment by the forces of professional disinsectors. Their services cost an average of one and a half to two times more expensive than the cost of domestic means for removing parasites, but teams of disinsectors provide a guarantee that the fleas will not appear in the room for several months, and also perform the most harmful work for the apartment owner.

Before the arrival of the pest control apartment is prepared in the same way as before self-treatment. It is important to remember that experts use very strong and often badly smelling means - Sinuzan, Diazinon, Tetrix.You need to be prepared for the fact that within a few days after the apartment has been treated for fleas, the characteristic “flavor” will remain in it.

Important!
Sometimes disinsectors prefer to use fairly toxic organophosphate insecticides for flea control because they have a so-called ovicidal effect - they poison flea eggs and pupae. This is a guarantee that the fleas will not appear in the apartment in a few days, although it complicates the whole procedure somewhat.

Already after the fleas have been expelled from the apartment, one should carefully clean the apartment at least once a week so that even with the occasional appearance of parasites, the larvae swarming in garbage and dust should be destroyed. Together with pet protection against fleas, this measure is usually enough to prevent the recurrence of parasites in the apartment.

 

An example of how people suffer from the invasion of fleas in the house

 

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