Homemade Flea Trap

RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Dutch 1962 (66) Profile Contact Green lights work the best because their eyes are most sensitive to that and yellow. For more tips on the green light trap and how to keep your pet out of it check out this article. http://pestcemetery.com/green-lights-work-attract-fleas/ I hope it helps. Good Luck Posted on 11/15/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By rozipoz (5) Contact Fleas can't swim? Hallellujah, after five years battling with these monstrous pests I had begun to think them invincible. Actually, I have tried the light and bowl of soapy water treatment........nothing, zilch. Maybe I have a more intelligent flea. Oh well, onwards and upwards. Posted on 08/06/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Maags (10) Profile Contact I have read the main purpose of putting salt on the carpeting is to dry up the eggs. Salt destroys the eggs so I've read. If we don't kill the thousands of eggs the fleas are laying daily, we can keep trapping them all summer. We should trap and kill the eggs with salt at the same time. The eggs are what keep them coming back. My guess is lots of salt during the day. Let it sit for an hour or so, vacuum before night fall, and water dish soap nightlight/tealight trap at night. Posted on 07/20/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By andrea (Guest Post) wow. it seems like you have all had success with the dish of soapy water flea trap. I tried this once and nothing happened. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but I think I will try it again, this time with a candle in the middle of the dish. Hope it helps, and thanks to all of you for posting your advice! Posted on 01/25/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By George the Cat's owner (Guest Post) I am concerned about George (named after my favorite president) drinking the soapy water and getting diarrhea, or upset stomach. Just plain water, or water with cooking oil would work, but I don't want him drinking dead fleas, either, since they can carry disease. Besides a trap, I my plan is to also build his immunity to fleas with some brewers yeast and cider vinegar in his diet. They don't bother biting me too much, since I eat a lot of garlic and hot sauce. Up to now, my first approach has been the carpet powder w/growth inhibitor; lots of vacuuming; micro-fiber floor duster; growth inhibitor spray in hard to reach areas and cloth he likes to lay on; wiping down the leather couch every morning to get the flea poop off of it; and banning him from my bedroom. The fleas love his thick fur and I wish I could bath him, but you can imagine how hard it is when he can't stand even one drop of water on him, besides the fact he has his claws and weighs around 20 pounds without being fat. P.S. - George Washington is my favorite president Posted on 09/30/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By dogs are the problem (Guest Post) What about the dog? Don't you care about curing the dog that infested your house in the first place? Posted on 09/21/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By sb (Guest Post) I used a light with a gooseneck and aimed it over the pie pan. The fleas were so bad I would just refill the trap with more soapy water and quickly leave the room. I caught so many fleas it was unbelievable. I later went in and fished them all off with a premise spray from the vet! Posted on 09/17/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Goon (Guest Post) My problem was that the fleas were no located in a single area, they were spread throughout the house. Because of this the soapy water & light trick only worked sometimes. I almost went crazy I swear, with all the biting and itching not to mention the reluctance to have company over for fear of embarrassment. This is what I did, and at first my wife thought I was nuts! I took two pieces of cardboard and bent them length wise around my shins, marked them and cut them long enough to make it all the way around my shins and meet at the back. Then I laid them out and punched three holes in each end about an inch from the edges. (these holes will later be used to thread like a shoe to tie the two ends together) I found a recipe for home made sticky glue adhesive and coated two pieces of cardboard on one side each (you can buy premixed adhesive from the internet as well but I was in a hurry) After coating the cardboard I wrapped them around my shins and laced them up with shoe string to make my sticky flea catching shin guards! You think a soap dish & light works, then try this! I just walked around the places I knew had fleas and they jumped right into the glue as I walked past! Later I grabbed an old pair of slippers and hot glued some sticky cardboard to them as well since I noticed that a lot of the fleas were still landing on my socks instead of my shins. My flea problem was gone in under a week! You will look a little funny, and your wife might call you crazy but once she sees all the fleas stuck to your legs she will eat her words! Cheers Posted on 09/16/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By terryd (Guest Post) The water with the dishwasher liqid sounds like a great idea. I'll try it tonight I'm desperate at this point. Posted on 09/14/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By English Doreen (8) Profile Contact I've just set out 20 (!) soapy flea traps around the house, using Fairy Liquid as I'm in England, and within two minutes one had already committed suicide - that will teach them for keeping me awake the last few nights. When it gets dark I'll try the night lights too. Hope they work as well this side of the water! The local authority exterminator is visiting tomorrow as the three products we have used so far haven't worked and we can only buy "bombs" through the Internet - hope it doesn't come to that. Anyway thanks for the advice, which doesn't seem to filtered through to england so far. Posted on 09/10/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By OntarioFleaHater (Guest Post) I'm about to try the dish with a night-light. I hope the light isn't too high up! I look after my in-law's dogs and they brought them to my house, but the fleas didn't leave with them ha! Posted on 09/03/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By (Guest Post) It works! I tried it and within minutes the fleas started jumping in the water and drowning! Thnx so much! Posted on 09/01/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By latinguy (Guest Post) I just now read this on 7/4/08. I just now also place 3 foam plates 2 with a plastic candle with fluid inside to keep the flame running 10hrs. And dawn dish soap with water surrounding it, On my patio porch. We'll see what happens. Posted on 07/04/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By shirley houstina (Guest Post) Hello, I live here in Florida and my problem has been every time my house dog goes outside to potty, she comes back in with a flea or 2. She is checked every single time. She is very sensitive to every thing. We have bombed the house, vaccuumed and shampooed the carpets, we have had the yard and in side the house professionally sprayed with no signs of easing her little body. Even though we have seen no signs of fleas we have tried everything to help her from all the heavy chewing and scratching, she is so heavily covered with bumps. I look forward to trying this application. Thank you Posted on 05/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By (Guest Post) Here's what I do for fleas. Sprinkle reg table salt in carpet. Wait 24 hours then vacuum. Do this till you see no more fleas. Salt cuts up the fleas and their eggs. Posted on 05/06/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By frustrated_with_fleas!!! (Guest Post) I'm really frustrated with fleas. They've made my sister covered with blisters. I'm about to cry when I see her after school. Posted on 04/10/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse im all out of ideas! :( By Jenna H (Guest Post) I'm all out of ideas, i don't know what to do anymore. Everything i do to try to get rid of the fleas in my house is always failing. I need some advice. Posted on 11/21/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By (Guest Post) 15 watt bug zapper on the floor hiding in a corner away from everyone has always worked great for me since 1984! The wattage calls fleas from all over the house it worked great for me, be careful keep it away from everyone and thing! Posted on 11/18/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Linda Lucas (Guest Post) I'm on my fifth day - 8 bowls with soapy water. Each bowl every morning with 10 to 25 fleas. Had exterminator twice - 2 weeks ago, bombed twice. Vacuum every day and housekeeper with vinegar water 3 times. Also, dog put outside for 1 1/2 weeks and grass professionally sprayed. Any other ideas? lhl Posted on 09/30/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Surfactant (Guest Post) Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents worth on dish soap: Soap is a surfactant. It reduces water's surface tension and improves its ability to wet surfaces, leaving fewer air bubbles on rough surfaces. Insects have no lungs, just holes in their sides. Air diffuses through these holes, into a network of microscopic tubes called "tracheae." Without soap, water doesn't penetrate the tracheae and the bugs have enough stored air to "breathe" to keep them going while they swim around and climb back out. With soap in the mix, the water wicks into their tracheae and wet the internal surfaces, drowning the buggers. Okay, I lied; the air doesn't just diffuse in. Check this out: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s769094.htm But, still: water+soap = better wetting -> dead bugs. Posted on 09/25/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By (Guest Post) Don't use the candle. Unattended it could be hazardous. Also mouse/glue traps under a night light works just as well. The fleas stick to the traps. Posted on 09/19/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Callie (Guest Post) I got one of those Raid green-light sticky-strip traps at a yardsale last year, and it worked wonderfully during that flea season. This year, however, it doesn't seem to be catching nearly as many fleas . I'm afraid the fleas in my house have evolved into intelligent beings and have learned to avoid the trap! I never thought of using a light or candle with the dish-of-water trick! I always just used hot water and was out of luck when it cooled off! Thanks for posting a useful variation on this method! Posted on 08/21/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By S (Guest Post) Why don't my flea traps work? My house is covered with fleas but so far all of my traps have not caught more than 6 or 7 fleas! I used a pie pan and a 60 watt lamp directly over. Then I thought perhaps thats too high for them to jump (which I know isn't true since they've bitten up to our knees!). But still I switched to just plain dinner plates. Still not working! My husband thinks its some kind of voodoo trick I found on the internet. What am I doing wrong? Finally had to resort to catching them myself and throwing them straight in the traps. This is on top of vacuuming like mad everyday and using 5 borax boxes! Posted on 07/20/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By tismom (45) Profile Contact A similiar method works for fruit flies, also. During canning season especially; and that is to put some water and dishsoap, along with some citrus juice, in shallow bowls and cover with saran wrap. Then poke tiny holes in the saran wrap. The fruit flies will crawl in and become trapped. Posted on 03/19/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Ariela (282) Profile Blog! Contact It works.. I put water in a pie tin, and a squirt of dish soap. Sat it under tables or beds or anywhere. Fleas are stupid. They jump in and drown. Many little flea bodies will be inthe bottom of the tin by morning. Posted on 03/19/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Cthomas (Guest Post) Havent tried it, but me and my girlfriend are going to be trying it tonight. Posted on 03/18/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Suzanne (Guest Post) what is the purpose of the dishsoap? Editor's Note: It is supposed to coat the surface of the water to make it so the fleas cannot jump back out. Posted on 10/11/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Jennifer (Guest Post) I have had an exterminator at my house the last 3 fridays in a row, and still fleas!!!! I will try the green light and dawn dishsoap. I was amazed by reading all these helpful tips. I hope they work for me. Posted on 10/03/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Jim Rojas (Guest Post) I live in Florida. I have no pets. I had a huge flea infestation on the side yard of my home. I tried all kinds of flea & bug killers, with no luck. Then I tried the pan with dish soap & night light tip. After a week, I counted well over 1000 fleas. I added some Demon WP in with the soapy water, to keep ants & gaint roaches from eating the dead fleas...wow...it works! Thanks for the tips! Posted on 01/07/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Agueda Village (Guest Post) I did the light trap with water and it is working! Thank you very much Posted on 11/25/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Ryan (Guest Post) I used the Raid flea trap, which is a an upright green light that is connected to a base that has sticky paper on the bottom.. The idea is the fleas are attracted to the light, try to get it, hit it and then fall into the stick paper. I have left it on for days now and no luck. There are still fleas in my room, I keep picking them off my legs! I am going to try the vacuum trick plus the water bowl with a drop of dish soap. Posted on 08/17/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By R. Holley. (Guest Post) It really works, I put some water with Dawn in a small saucer, put a small candle in the middle and this morning I counted 27 fleas..IT WORKS..... Posted on 08/14/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By LuverofCats05 (1) Contact Wow i think i'll try that fly sticky tape trap.......and the shallow dish of water under a night light and see if it works......... Posted on 07/28/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Will (Guest Post) The flea trap spounds good, but how do I keep my dog from drinking the water ? lol Posted on 07/25/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse Fleas By ThriftyFun (3103) Profile Blog! Contact Fleas will jump into a bowl of soapy water placed on the floor and drown. I have no idea why they do this, but it works. A friend demonstrated this to me, using Dawn dish soap in a small bowl. By Rev. Alex Posted on 06/24/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Homemade Flea Trap By Tanya (Guest Post) Another great flea trap my husband made. He took a premium plus cracker box, cut two squares on one side and inserted a sheet of yellow sticky fly trap(sticky on both sides) . He then took a string of christmas lights removed all but two green bulbs from the end , which he inserted into two holes in the cracker box. THis created a green night light. Fleas are attracted to green. The trap has been in our daughters room for a week and we counted 76 dead fleas on the stickt tape. Posted on 06/17/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse Flea Control By ThriftyFun (3103) Profile Blog! Contact This will eliminate all of your fleas in the home. You need eight or nine small white bowls, very small. Put water in them and put them all over throughout your house. They need to be at least small enough for the fleas to jump into. Over time they will all go to the bowls and drown. My mom told me this and I didn't believe her, but it worked. By familyov6 Posted on 06/09/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

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