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- Fleas, their eggs and larvae
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- Folk remedies for fleas
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- Folk remedies for fleas
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- Aerosols from cockroaches
When the parasites populated the whole apartment, when they bites they do not allow to sleep and put on short skirts, a person forgets that this is just an insect. Defeating them is easy, just remember what fleas in the apartment are afraid of: cold, pungent odors, toxic substances. It is worth knowing how to properly apply the fears of insects. This is important in order to successfully defeat them in their own home.
Environmental conditions
Fleas do not tolerate certain conditions, the creation of which can lead to their disappearance. Like other insects, bloodsuckers are afraid negative temperatures. Even lowering the air temperature to +10 degrees does not allow the "horses" to breed. This fear makes it possible to quickly defeat fleas in the winter - just let the frost get into the room. And if it is somewhat difficult to do this with the apartment, then it is not difficult to freeze a stable, a chicken coop or a free-standing summer kitchen.
On a note!
High temperatures are also not suitable for parasites: when the mark of 45 degrees is exceeded, insects begin to die en masse.
Fleas are afraid of water, so during the bathing of the animal you can reduce the number of insects. To do this, pour so much water into the bath so that the animal is completely covered. The head can be watered from a bucket, avoiding the ingress of water into the ears. Fleas will be selected in the remaining dry areas, where they are easy to collect. The fleas and the sun scare them away - from the animal lying in the sun, the bloodsuckers seek to escape away.
Feedback
When we got richly divorced fleas, we did not know what to do. I really did not want to use strong means, because the children are small. And not everything can be used on animals. We bought cats and dogs collars Beaphar. From animals, though not immediately, they jumped off. But they stayed in the apartment. We all walked around, the children slept poorly. We decided to use the whole arsenal folk remedies: scattered everywhere the peel of oranges, washed with ammonia, essential oils dripping, candles with suitable aromas lit. Constantly from walks brought wormwood branches, they bought mint from grandmothers in the market. A month of torment, and yet we got rid of fleas. I hope we don’t see them again in our apartment.
Alla, Novokuzetsk
Folk remedies
Long-term, even centuries-old, experience suggests that fleas avoid a rather large list of means used by the people to get rid of insects. They can be used both separately from each other, and in combination.
Pyrethrum
Persian chamomile is a natural insecticide that is absolutely safe for humans. To prepare a decoction, dry flowers are needed. Two glasses of the plant are poured with boiling water and left to cool. The resulting infusion process plinths, floors, surfaces of tables and walls. Pyrethrum is afraid of fleas in cats, so the animal can be washed in a warm broth.
Herbs
Finding out the smell of fleas is easy. You can put wormwood and tansy around the house, waiting for the disappearance of insects. It is necessary to regularly change drying branches to fresh, more effective ones. Infected animals can be bathed in a wormwood broth.
Ammonia
Flea ammonia has been used for a very long time. It is enough to add 3-5 drops of the product to two glasses of water, and rinse the mixture with various surfaces. After this, the insects will rush to leave the room. When bathing an animal, ammonia can be added to water; fleas do not like its smell. In such water, you can wash the litter or rinse the pet's house.
Kerosene
Flea kerosene in cats and dogs has been used almost since the invention of the substance. This smell is so unpleasant for bloodsuckers that they will disappear forever from the house in which carpets and floors are treated with kerosene. When working with this tool, you must follow certain safety measures.
- Do not use kerosene near an open flame; you must not smoke when working, since the product is combustible.
- One day after treatment, it is recommended to wash all treated surfaces with water.
- The kerosene smell repels not only fleas, but also people, so it’s better to leave home for a few hours.
Kerosene is known for its strong, persistent and unpleasant odor. Processing pure kerosene animals is strictly prohibited.
Vinegar
Flea vinegar is used very often. You can use it as an independent tool or combine with camphor alcohol. Camphor and vinegar against fleas on the animal are rubbed into the coat while swimming. After that, rinse well with water.
If you need to use vinegar against fleas in the apartment, they process plinths, crevices, carpets. Insects, frightened by the unpleasant smell, will leave the shelter.
Camphor is also used to scare insects from the animal and from the apartment.
Mint
Mint against fleas can be used in various forms: dry, fresh or in essential oils. It is necessary to process once all possible habitats of fleas, sills, baseboards, so that fleas disappear for a long time. Knowing which herbs fleas are afraid of, you can purchase the right essential oil and regularly treat it with an apartment as a preventative measure. Parasites will not be able to die from the aroma of herbs, but leaving the house is easy.
Important!
Anise, mint, eucalyptus, citrus fruits are suitable for getting rid of blood-sucking insects. Flea cloves are no less effective.
Strong odors from fleas
Insects do not tolerate many pungent odors, so the answer to the question of whether fleas are afraid of bleach will be positive. To combat insects, it is necessary to wash the floor and baseboards with an aqueous solution of bleach.
Important!
Chlorine vapors are dangerous for humans, so the solution should be weak enough, work should be carried out in a respirator and goggles and with windows open. After chlorine treatment, ventilate the area thoroughly.
Considering the danger of the product, flea bleach should not be applied to the animal’s hair in any case.
Camphor alcohol from fleas has a similar effect, only its vapors are not dangerous to humans or animals. Therefore, its drops can be applied to the pet’s hair. It will be better if the dog or cat can not lick the product.
Feedback
Folk remedies are excellent. They do not harm animals and humans, do not force them to leave home at the time of treatment. But when you need to quickly get rid of the enemy, I personally advocate insecticides. Therefore, when our dog appears bloodsuckersI ran to the veterinary pharmacy and bought drops at the withers and collar. I'm not sure that the parasites managed to settle in the apartment, but nevertheless treated it with aerosols. The urgency was that it was time for me to go to the maternity hospital, and it was nonsense to bring the baby to the flea. Fortunately, they managed to do everything on time, there was no one to bite the baby.
Zinaida, Petersburg
Insecticides
Finding out what fleas are afraid of in the house, one cannot ignore the means issued by modern manufacturers. The composition of the preparations includes aromatic additives that repel pests and make it possible to get rid of parasites in the house.But most of the toxic agents act so quickly that insects simply do not have time to leave the home threshold, dying on the way to the doors. Smelling a similar aroma on an animal, pests tend to retire away.
Although the animal skillfully gets rid of fleas on its own, it will not hurt to help him, especially since bloodsuckers do not live permanently in wool, inhabiting human housing. Most often, fleas help to kill:
- Dichlorvos, Karbofos and the like. They are toxic not only to humans, but also to animals, so they can only be used indoors, but not on animal hair.
- Pyrethroids and pyrethrins - low toxicity for warm-blooded insecticides, very effective against fleas and other insects. Among the funds containing these substances are present Raptor, Medilis-Ziper, FAS, Klopomor. These same substances are part of flea collars, drops at the withers.
- Imidacloprid, Fipronil - non-toxic substances for humans and animals. Used in drops at the withers Front Line and other modern means;
It is necessary to find a tool that will not only allow you to kill parasites in the animal and will scare away the hair, but also something that scare the fleas away from humans. To do this, you can use any of the folk remedies or purchase an industrial insecticide. To destroy fleas in the house, sprays have proven themselves well:
For cats and dogs, it is recommended to purchase drops:
You should regularly inspect the hair of pets for fleas and get rid of them in time.
