Lar wrote:
In article ,
says...
My vote is for the bomb/fogger....and do yourself a favor and do the
whole house.
The down fall of the foggers is that you have to leave after treatment
for a few hours and may only be killing the exposed adults, doing
nothing to the eggs or larvae or any adults that may of crawled away
from the air flow. Where with the aerosol carpet sprays the IGR is in
the product and you can be assured that you are placing where it is
needed and depending on the products time away can be just a few
minutes, almost a dry application along with there is a residual so one
treatment is longer lasting. And I have never heard of anyone blowing up
a house with the aerosols as they do with foggers...which can be a
bonus.
Before we used the topical stuff for our cat, our house was full of
fleas. At the same time the vet ordered topical stuff, he sold us a
cannister of boric acid to use on carpets. It was to be sprinkled on
the carpet, left for a week, and then vacuumed up. As it turned out, we
didn't need to use the boric because the topical flea medicine for the
cat did the trick. We tried everything under the sun prior to that, and
nothing worked. Killing the live fleas can leave a lot of eggs, which
hatch in about 3 days. The boric left down for a week would have gotten
the newly hatched ones. I think it is probably available at a pet
store, and I would dispose of the vacuum bag as soon as the stuff is
cleaned up.