Quick and Convenient Flea Control
Flea bombs are a popular way to treat the home for a flea infestation. These small spray bottles are designed to be set up in the home, usually in the middle of the affected room, and set off. The insecticide spray then permeates the home, carpets and other areas, killing fleas, as well as flea eggs and larva. At least, that’s the idea
Is it really that easy?
Flea bombs often seem like the ideal solution, since they’re quite easy to use, and seem like a simple, low maintenance way to control fleas. However, the indirect application of insecticides to your carpets, pet bedding, or other areas that might be infested with fleas, is much less effective than applying them directly.
What’s a better way?
A better way to apply spray insecticides is directly to the areas infested with fleas. In most homes with pets, this usually means the pet’s bed and bedding, carpets, and any other ares the pet frequents. The advantage of applying insecticide spray directly is that you can use much less of the toxic substance.
In addition, when you apply the spray by hand, as opposed to setting off a bomb in the middle of your living room, you can move furniture and other obstacles, and apply the spray to the exposed area. Flea bombs do not allow you this flexibility.
Use a multi-pronged approach for best success
This website is dedicated to providing you with the most accurate and helpful information on flea control. As you will see, the best approach involves treating the infestation in your home as well as your pet. If doesn’t make much sense to treat one and not the other, since one will just re-infest the other if they’re not both treated.
So, although it might be tempting to just buy a couple of flea bombs, set them off in your house, and call it a day, for the best long term results you will probably have to take a more careful and comprehensive approach. Fortunately, with careful and consistent care, you can eliminate fleas from your life for good.
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my guinea pig has well her cage is full of fleas none on her just her cage and my walls
I am a homeowner, if you have fleas in your house they are on your pet as well even though you do not see any on your guinea pig.
My kitten has a really bad flea infestation. It has gotten to the point where they are all over him, my blankets, and biting the crap out of me.
where can I get a flea bomb . around the sumas area.
were abouts can we get flea bombs in the washington area????
I have not yet an answer but good to know I am not the only one with this problem, it is not something you want to discuss with others I am embarassed and feel dirty! Have you found a solution yet, I have tried allsorts, bombs, sprays, vaccuum powders and frontline and spent a fortune.
I have 2 cats and have sprayed with the furniture flea spray and given them both flea baths. Their fleas were so bad that even after letting the shampoo sit on the cats for 10 minutes, they still weren’t all dead. and the fleas are still somehow living in my house. I cant even do my laundry at home, because the fleas are still able to live in the basement.. where there is no upholstery or animals. All concrete. Help!
nicole we have same problem fleas only in basement concrete nothing up in the house what did u do that worked? email us shauneandapril@live.com
To Hannah with the kitten, Do NOT use flea powder on a kitten, it is very harmfull! Go to Walmart and buy a fleacomb. I fleacomb kittens 2 or 3 times a day, dipping the comb in water to drown the fleas. I lost a kitten to anemia caused by biting fleas. I tried using a regular comb, but nothing works like a flea comb does. Wash all kitten bedding in hot water, or soak in a pail outside and then wash.
my cat has so many fleas, i can’t even sleep in my own bed…please help!
I have no pets but the skanks who live behind us do, so I guess we tracked them in (the fleas, not the skanks thank god). Yes, getting the crap bitten out of my ankles and calfs. Treating the place this weekend.
I might add that the skanks NEVER walk their two large dogs, and they pick up their poop from the yard and walkways only because we contacted the dept of public health about them leaving it around. Irresponsible t-park trash, and now we have fleas because of ‘em.
hey yeah… my kitty’s got fleas, where can i get a bomb??
Goto your Local Pet Store, They always have a full line of items to help stop fleas.. Best thing to do is use a bombs, normally 1 per 1-2 rooms.. then Spray a infected area with spray (normally there bedding and under furniture like sofas) places the bomb would of had hard time reaching.. BUT ESP where the animal sleeps.. THEN you bathe the animal and put them in another room thats not infected (like basement or attic) THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY ) do this repeat twice… (IF REALLY BAD) . For those EXTREME cases vets do have injections for animals that will cause there blood to be a poison for the fleas… so the fleas can’t lay larva. Also VACUUM DAILY and change the bag every 3 -4 days. or fleas will come out the vacuum and be in the house again. good luck guys!
I hate fleas – nasty little blood suckers!
I would not waste your time and money trying to treat for fleas yourself if you are actually seeing fleas in your house and on you. Call an exterminator – it usually costs about $150 for the initial treatment, but most of them will guartantee success after one or two treatments. We’ve spent that much trying unsuccesfully to rid our home of these tiny little things from hell! We had them so bad, we actually spent almost a week in a hotel. Lastly, the most important thing you need to do in ridding your home of fleas is to vacuum, vacuum, vacuum! If you don’t vacuum at least every other day very thoroughly, you will be feasted on for months to come! Call a local exterminator and they will explain the importance of vacumming.
I used a flea comb with my kittens, and the darn fleas jumped off the comb as soon as I took it away from the kittens, I used flea shampoos and flea bombs and still there are fleas. I have a small two bedroom apartment and the fleas are out of control. I got rid of the cats and bombed again, and still there are fleas. My son is getting bitten to shreads, but I don’t have a single bite. Why would only one of us get bitten, even though he’s sleeping in my bed most of the time? How can I get rid of these stinking fleas?
We have two indor cats(that never go outside) and I don’t know how it happened but it did. We have fleas, they only bother me (so far) at last count I have 56 bites from the knees down. I am loosing my mind. we have tried Sentry natural defense but it is not getting the job done. I will welcome any ideas.
I have bites all over my legs and arms. I went to urgent care today b/c I thought it might be bed bugs from sleeping in a motel last week but they said it was flea bites and hives from flea bites. My 2 cats are indoor as well and I don’t know where they came form either. I have a small 2 bedroom apratment and the building allows cats and dogs. Maybe I tracked them in from one of the neighbors dogs? How else would they have come in to my apartment? Do they live in apartment walls?
Can I dilute flea shampoo for dogs, and, it be safe for my two cats? Need a response quickly. I’m being overtaken by fleas…
Found two baby fleas on my 7 month old pup.. ran to petsmart with only a half hour til closing.. i bought a flea shampoo.. a pack of 3 flea bombs.. the flea powder.. and the flea spray.. i went to war.. first i washed my pup Marley.. shampoo was very effective.. saw a bunch of dead fleas in the water.. and this morning i found a dead flea on her coat.. so i’m satisfied with that.. work instantly.. then i set her outside and i let loose with the flea bombs.. took off all bedding and set it 2 wash.. then i set out the 3 bombs.. i have a 1 bedroom apartment.. set one off in the middle of the bedroom.. middle of the living room.. and in the hallway in front of the bathroom.. came back home.. sprayed furniture and bed down with the spray i also bought.. sprayed it under the furniture.. on the furniture.. on the carpet around everywhere she tends to spend time.. around her kennel.. on her bedding.. finally i took the flea powder and just started dumping it around my apartment.. i’m telling you.. this was warrrrrr!!!
Found two baby fleas on my 7 month old pup.. ran to petsmart with only a half hour til closing.. i bought a flea shampoo.. a pack of 3 flea bombs.. the flea powder.. and the flea spray.. i went to war.. first i washed my pup Marley.. shampoo was very effective.. saw a bunch of dead fleas in the water.. and this morning i found a dead flea on her coat.. so i’m satisfied with that.. work instantly.. then i set her outside and i let loose with the flea bombs.. took off all bedding and set it 2 wash.. then i set out the 3 bombs.. i have a 1 bedroom apartment.. set one off in the middle of the bedroom.. middle of the living room.. and in the hallway in front of the bathroom.. came back home.. sprayed furniture and bed down with the spray i also bought.. sprayed it under the furniture.. on the furniture.. on the carpet around everywhere she tends to spend time.. around her kennel.. on her bedding.. finally i took the flea powder and just started dumping it around my apartment.. overall i spent about 70 dollars for the four items.. i’m telling you.. this was warrrrrr!!! Overall i spent about 70 dollars for the four items
OMG im going through the same thing. Just the last few weeks my kitties have been attacked by these god awful things! theyre all over my carpet and everywhere! Ive been using Borax on the carpets which seems to help some.
I will tell you guys this…get a few flee colors from Walmart and put it into your vacuum whenever you do the carpets. I think we need to Bomb but i wana get the right stuff
so if anyone knows something that works good let a bitch know!
I’m having a flea problem right now… this weekend i plan on bombing my 1 bedroom apartment and letting loose with a furniture/upholstery spray. I don’t have pets, I’ve never been able to have pets and my landlord doesn’t allow pets… but the previous tenant had cats anyways and from what I hear would just let them come and go as they pleased. No carpets anywhere in the apartment either, I just don’t get it. But I’m ready for the chemical warfare this weekend…
My 3 year old dog got fleas right after she went to a dog park we thought it was just a little itch but we saw in constently EVER SINGLY DAY and then i just said to my self that this was a big problem she has fleas.
My cat who lives in the garage and outdoors got infestested with fleas hanging out with stray cats…brought fleas into the garage and now they got in the house. Got rid of his sleeping quarters and bombed the garage this morning. Ordered flea killer, Frontline plus for cats… http://www.thriftyvet.com
They have the best prices. Now I need to bomb the house. This is a real drag..
Me & my girlfriend don’t have any pets, we don’t have many friends that have pets & our flat is clean but the problem is we just bought a second hand sofa && it has fleas! Were gonna go buy some stuff t get rid of these pesky things !!
I’ve been bitten 17 times and we have only had the darn thing 2 days!!
I came home six weeks ago and automatically felt something I just did not know what it was, over the course of two more weeks I started noticing little tiny dots flying around and it seemed that it was my imagination because they were so fast i felt it just could not be anything. By the fourth week, or rather the end of my thrid week I was being attacked so much that I was going crazy. I did my due diligence and started reading up on things and found a page on the cycle of fleas. it upset me so much that I was unable to read it. The next day however, I had decided that if I was going to get rid of my problem I would have to know what the problem was. The following week I left a message for the management company and the manager called and said she would send their Pest Control Specialist to my home. He showed up and said he would use something that was built specifically for spraying near the ground and not necessariily like the bombs I had been using. That night after he used his chemical, after a night of studying, I crawled into bed and was severely attacked like whatever was in my home felt that I had intentionally set out to hurt them. It was the absolutely worst night of my life. My hands, parts of my body, feet ankles, neck, ear cheek, you name it was bite and all areas swole up so bad that it actually affect the use of my legs because the bites were bad, and my hands were really damaged. I washed load after load of laundry using the hotest temperature, dried the batches using the hotest heat and to no avail. I had my carpets cleaned after hearing such horror stories to rid the larvae or eggs so tht they would not come back the next week. Now almost two months later I am being attacked at night and i feel trapped. this is riddiculous and I am not sure what to do. I called another company after I ended up having to ask the last bug guy to leave because he made some really aweful remarks of which almost calling me a lier and saying maybe it was because I was taking some kind of medication that did not agree with me? never to have him come into my home again. I AM DESPERATE! I am just not sure what will help. I have bombed personally 8 times and nothing has helped. I recently found out that I am allergic to fleas and have just had a kidney transplant almost two months ago. I want to feel and do better, not feel trapped and out of sorts. I cannot leave the house without feel something crawling on me or biting me. Its embarrasing and i cam not sure how much more I can take. To stiffle them I bought a mattress cover and a plastic cover to hopefully kill them and overnight them seem to have infested by king size bed. I have no pets, have a cleaning service twice a week, and am rarely home. Here in Sacramento CA our weather has been horrible and we seemed to have winter straight through May. Finally it got hot and not it seems from what I read in the newpaper and on the news that fleas are in abundance this year due to all the weird weather we have had.
Signed in need of a miracle!
Phyllis, I’m very sorry to hear about your horrible infestation. It sounds like a bad one, and if you’re not having much luck on your own, you really might want to think about hiring a professional pest control service to come treat your home.
It sounds like you had a bad experience with the last company, but I think if you do some screening beforehand, you can find a good professional who will take care of you. With really bad infestations, sometimes that’s what you have to do.
Good luck, and take care of yourself.
Like every one else here i have fleas. yay!!! anyways. i was talking to the vet and she gave me a little hint.. get some mothballs and put in your vacume. that way any thing sucked up will die in the bag and not needed to be changed right away. another thing is i have not seen any one write stuff about spraying the yard. you need to treat your yard as well. good luck to all and hope i can take care of these fleas. its my third time trying so maybe lucky number three…
Thanks for the tip, Andrew. Putting a flea collar in your vacuum cleaner bag is also a good way to kill fleas you vacuum up.
how much is too much for a human to be exposed to after fogging a home is 12 foggers too much for a 24X44 double wide mobil home and what can be the effects on a person?? Help Please
i moved INTO an apartment where the previous owners had not dealt with the problem. my landlord is a total flake, and now i’m being attacked every time I walk into my home. is an exterminator really the best way to get rid of these little bastards? i’m sure i have some renters rights to my landlord paying for this shit.
Sorry to hear about that Tyler. You may very well have some recourse with your landlord, but I really couldn’t speak to that. I’d check your local tenants rights organization, or state government website for information. Google will probably help you find some info.
It might be easier, however, to try to get rid of the fleas yourself first. Try using a borate flea powder on the carpets, and vacuuming every day. If you don’t have pets, you won’t have to worry about treating them, so you’ll mainly have carpets to deal with.
Most likely, you can treat the problem, or hire a professional exterminator, and deduct the expense from your rent. Again, I can’t tell you that for sure, but I believe that’s how most state laws work. If if were me, I’d look into that, and then do whatever was easiest and most convenient for me. I know how it is having a total flake for a landlord.
Good luck.
I have a 9 month old baby girl and we have to bomb our house we have fleas bad.. I hate fleas they bite her and myself im tierd of it. So after I know I have to vacume the house and wash down all the surfaces and anything that will touch her little mouth. But what should I wash the surfaces down with hot soapie water or can i use mr clean? had the floors shes crawling will it be safe? Plz help very consern mommy
Hi Alexandria,
I’d focus your cleaning on areas that have crevices or textured surfaces, as well as the corners and edges or hardwood floors, etc. You might try Dawn dish soap for cleaning, as it’s supposed to be fairly toxic to fleas but harmless to people.
Mostly, I’d focus on vacuuming, and you can try a borate flea powder on your carpets beforehand. That’s non-toxic to pets and humans. Consistent vacuuming is your best bet though, since that will do a lot to kill fleas and pupa without the use of any toxins.
Good luck, and please come back with any questions, or to report and how it goes.
Thanks.
i have children and obv. a dog i have way too many things in my house to be bombing! will the spray work better in my favor?? i want and need them gone Asap! they are biting the crap outta us and our dog and our dog is getting her dips so she is somewhat good however b.c they are now into the house into the carpets they are more and more adn are getting back onto her… please help me ASAP!!! what do i do???
Another good way to rid fleas off your pet, without using harsh to their skin shampoos is using a little of your own hair shampoo and putting in lemon juice. the lemon juice will kill fleas on contact without damaging your pet’s skin, and your shampoo will actually condition their hair. Just make sure to rinse it out completely.
I was wondering when the best time is to flea bomb your house?