Basement fleas in the apartment and methods of dealing with them

The so-called basement fleas is the collective name of almost all types of fleas that can appear in a regular city apartment. This name is popularly given to them for the fact that in the largest quantities these parasites are found precisely in the underground and semi-underground floors of high-rise buildings, basements and basements, and also often in cellars and basements in summer cottages. Fleas in the basement live in heaps of garbage, old rags, bunches of sprouted grass, and feed on the blood of rats, cats and dogs, as well as vagrants hiding in the cellars from the weather or regularly sleeping there.

Among the basement fleas you can find a rat, canine, feline, human, and sometimes even goat and rabbit fleas (it is problematic for a layman to visually distinguish these types of parasites from each other). All of them can attack humans and pets, and therefore, basement fleas in an apartment are today a frequent and very unpleasant phenomenon for residents of apartment buildings.

There are numerous cases where residents of seemingly well-maintained and comfortable apartments were bitten by basement fleas. It is important to understand that due to the ability of these parasites to endure dangerous diseases, they can not only cause discomfort, but also pose a serious threat to human health. Therefore, to know how to get rid of basement fleas in the apartment, residents should be sure, and owners of private houses to remember that the treatment of basements from fleas is the responsibility of the owners themselves.

On a note

Basement fleas can carry such dangerous diseases as the plague (you probably know that rat fleas were actively tolerated in the Middle Ages), hepatitis, brucellosis, salmonellosis, encephalitis and others. therefore hounding fleas in the basement is not just maintaining the building in good sanitary condition, but also protecting against accidental infection with a serious illness.

In the photo - basement fleas of different species. Here - flea cat:

Rat flea:

And in this photo - basement fleas in the apartment in an attempt to profit by human blood:

In the basements, due to the abundance of accumulated debris and a fairly stable temperature regime, literally greenhouse conditions are created for fleas of various species.This is the answer to the question of where fleas come from in the basement: once they get here with a rat or a cat, they multiply here and settle for permanent residence. And because of the pollution of the basement, it is much more difficult to get the basement fleas out of the basement itself than out of the apartment.

Basement fleas in residential areas are settled behind baseboards, in cabinets, in the rubble of old things, under carpets, in dog and cat beds. Here they multiply.

 

What are dangerous fleas from the basement?

A basement flea of ​​any kind can attack almost all mammals larger than the mouse that they see next to them. Her only food is the blood of animals (and man).

In order to suck blood, the flea pierces the skin and the wall of the blood vessel with stylet-like bristles and gets directly to the vessel bed. Basement flea bites are very painful, causing redness, swelling and constant itching. Together these flea bite symptoms in medicine they are called pulicosis.

On a note

Fleas are not constantly present on the victims, but only jump on them for feeding. Having satiated, they immediately leave the owner.The impression that fleas live on a dog or cat constantly is created because the parasites are constantly changing.

With constant scratching of the bites, infections can appear in the wounds and scratches, which often leads to suppuration.
But much more dangerous infections that can carry the basement fleas. They are intermediate hosts of the pathogens of trypanosomiasis, hepatitis, plague, encephalitis, tularemia, salmonellosis, typhoid in other serious diseases.

Therefore, it is imperative to fight fleas in the basement, you should not take them only as an annoying nuisance. To destroy the parasites should be stubbornly and to the bitter end, so that they do not spread out in apartments and breed in them.

 

Order of removal of basement fleas

To fight the basement fleas in the apartment itself should be planned and in accordance with the already well-established plan:

1. Fleas are removed in all pets.
2. At the same time, an apartment or house is treated with a powerful insecticidal agent. It can be Malathion, Get, Hangman, Tetrix, Combat - any available remedy that is used against cockroaches, bedbugs and other domestic insects.
3. Additionally, the places where flea larvae can live are processed. For this purpose, the same drugs that were used against adult insects are suitable, as well as insecticidal dusts and even small ones (including crayon Mashaapplied from cockroaches).
4. Then fleas are destroyed in the basement in order to stop their reproduction here and prevent re-entry into the apartment.
5. You should also take measures for preventive protection against fleas of pets, basement and the apartment itself.

It is important that none of these steps should be skipped, otherwise either adult fleas anywhere in the house or their larvae will remain alive. Because of this, the fight against basement fleas is always more difficult than, for example, with cockroaches.

 

How to remove fleas from animals?

To bring fleas in the basement of your home, you should first process pets and animals that live in the basement and are fed in the yard by all tenants of apartments. The following tools can be used for this:

• Flea collars that protect an animal for weeks or months. Such collars are also good because the trapping services of stray animals will not touch cats and dogs with them.
• Drops on the withers are very effective and protect the animal from parasites for several weeks.
• Insecticidal sprays and shampoos, with which to carry out the destruction of fleas in animals living in the basement, more difficult and troublesome, but more reliable.

In parallel, the SES should be called to bait rats and mice in the basement. Often, they are the main owners of fleas.
It must be remembered that if animals live in the basement or appear that have not been treated for parasites, they can become a source of repeated infection of the basement.

 

We destroy fleas in the house, apartment, basement

In most cases, it is very safe and safe to poison fleas in the basement and apartment by special disinsection teams. Their employees for quite reasonable money will process the premises, choose the best remedy for fleas in the basement and give a guarantee for the absence of parasites over the next few months.

On a note

Breeding fleas in the basement is an important stage for all residents of an apartment building (especially for those on the first floor who accept the main attack of the bloodsuckers on themselves). If you bring the parasites only in apartments, then after a few days they will again enter the premises from the basement.And so it will be until they are completely destroyed in the whole house, including the basement.

If desired, the premises can be processed independently. All people and animals are removed from the apartment for this purpose, all surfaces, slots and furniture are sprayed with special means (as noted above, these can be Karbofos, Hangman, Combat, Get, Raptor, etc.), after which the windows are closed and the apartment is infused during few hours. After this period, the room should be well ventilated and wet cleaning should be carried out.

But the remedy for basement fleas for the treatment of the basement itself can be selected more powerful. It can be Tetrix, Cucaracha, Diazinon - such drugs that are only with great reservations used in residential premises. Before treating the basement, it is necessary to clean the garbage, collect dust on the floor and in the corners, caulk the gaps and openings through which rodents penetrate here.

Feedback

“We in a private house for a long time decided what to treat the basement from fleas. We often have a cat there, and the facility can get into the room. They stopped at Karbofos, mainly because they knew that they poisoned bugs, and also because of the price.One day everyone was sprayed, the door was closed and the ventilation was gone, the day he quenched, then he aired, I washed everything, and a day later they started to let the cat in there. Like fleas have not yet seen, in parallel with the cat we are constantly buying collars. ”

Varvara Petrovna, Small Mayak

 

How to remove the larvae and destroy the eggs of fleas

Usually, to destroy flea larvae and eggs in the basement, it is required to remove all the garbage and dust here, get rid of the nests of rats and their burrows, and then sprinkle insecticides in the form of dusts in the corners and at the base of the walls (in addition to the main room processing). For this fit Dust Clean House, Phenaxine, pyrethrum powder, even borax, boric acid and agricultural insecticides.

Such measures guarantee the destruction of the younger generation of parasites.

 

Protection of the premises from basement fleas

Knowing how to poison fleas in the basement, and bringing them out once does not mean forever forgetting what it is. If a cat living in the basement picks up a couple of parasites somewhere and brings them to the basement, it’s very likely that all the procedures for the destruction of the basement fleas will have to be repeated.

To avoid this, you should:

1. During the warm period of the year, all animals visiting the basement should be treated with fleas or put special collars on them.
2. Constantly maintain cleanliness in the basement, take care of isolating it from rodents, scavenge.
3. In winter, regularly ventilate the room.
4. Do not allow alien animals to the basement.
5. You can sometimes put in the basement bouquets of wormwood and tansy - fleas avoid the proximity of the smells of these plants.

For the greatest reliability in the basement, you can regularly carry out preventive disinsection. If the entire apartment building “kicks off” on such a procedure, it will cost every inhabitant a very small amount, but in this case all residents of the house will be protected from an unpleasant neighborhood with basement parasites.

 

An interesting video about choosing a pest control service for the destruction of fleas to the house

 

Fleas attack tenants of high-rise buildings