How To Fight Against Fleas In Your Home?

Is your pet scratching itself nonstop and can you spot fleas almost everywhere in your home? Then it's is high time that you do something about it to turn your home safe again from these dirty parasites. If you had been thinking that flea treatment for your pet can completely wash out all of those parasites, then you are making a big mistake. When you treat your pet and make them free from fleas, you are getting rid of only 5% of the parasite's total population. It's studied that a pet acts as a transmitter of the fleas inside your house and the host but it's not that the fleas live fully upon the animal. It spreads and the remaining 95% is in your house and yard. The first thing that you need to understand is the flea cycle to kill them all completely. It becomes very essential to treat the pets as well as the house and yard at the same day and don't give them time to transfer from one place to another place while be give a break. If you don't treat and treat just your house or do it the other ways round, the whole process will get useless.

If you use an insecticide today and clean-up all the flees and feel that you don't have anymore flees in your home for one week and again start to see some adult flees, then it means that you did not clean-up your home properly as you don't know the life cycle of fleas. When a flea lays eggs, they are very strong and can't be destroyed by insecticides so, it is important to continue the treatment for everyday and never give chance for the larva that comes out of the egg to become a flea. Here are a few easy steps to get rid of fleas in your home.

You will get surprised to know that your vacuum cleaner is one of the best ever used weapon in the process of getting rid of fleas. You have to vacuum clean your house completely and give special attention to the corners, shady or dark gaps cracks, pet beds, under the furniture, under the beds as well as couches, carpets wall hangings, around skirting boards. Give extra power by putting on the nozzle attachment of the vacuum cleaner and carefully vacuum in the region of all baseboards as well as edges of fixtures. When you vacuum in all areas, larvae inside the cocoon comes out and thus can get easily exposed to insecticides that you spray on them.

Next step in getting rid of fleas from your home is by choosing the best insecticide. When you go for an insecticide read the label and see if something has called IGR or Insect Growth Regulator. Then your work is almost over. You just have to spray that insete3icide in floors, rugs and carpets, places in which your pet sleeps and every nook and corner of your yard, tool shed and every suspected place that is dark and suitable for insect growth.