09-15-2007, 10:21 PM
Here is a way to help without using pesticides: Attract them with a light and drown them.
Here's how:
Fill a flat baking dish halfway with water that has a little detergent in it to remove the surface tension of the water.
At night, turn of all the lights in the room except a small light right over the baking dish. You can just place the dish beneath a night light that is plugged into a low wall socket.
Fleas, attracted to the light, will jump into the water and, in the absence of surface tension, sink and drown. Without the detergent, they'll just walk across the water to freedom.
On those occasions we have had infestations of fleas indoors, this method has removed dozens of them every night.
Here's how:
Fill a flat baking dish halfway with water that has a little detergent in it to remove the surface tension of the water.
At night, turn of all the lights in the room except a small light right over the baking dish. You can just place the dish beneath a night light that is plugged into a low wall socket.
Fleas, attracted to the light, will jump into the water and, in the absence of surface tension, sink and drown. Without the detergent, they'll just walk across the water to freedom.
On those occasions we have had infestations of fleas indoors, this method has removed dozens of them every night.