ByzeiwIG wrote:
Whenever I walk around the house, especially in carpeted areas, fleas
attach themselves to my legs and feet. Worse for my mother.
In the course of three or four days, we caught about fifty fleas.
Instead of trying to kill them with our fingers, we will pick them
off, and drown them in a big bowl of water.

Do electric flea traps work? I've vacuumed the carpets twice, but
still have fleas. The vacuum is old and doesn't have a very powerful
suction. SHould I get a steam vacuum? I want to avoid using pesticides
and carpet powders. I would like to know if those plug in flea traps
with glue traps attached, work.

I have a feeling I will have to order insecticides and powder.

Do you have a pet? When we treated our cat, with Advance or whatever it
was, the fleas disappeared. It's been a while, and the cat is gone, so
I don't recall the name of the stuff. When we got the first
prescription, the vet also advised dusting carpet with boric acid
powder, which we purchased from him in a rather large cannister. He
advised leaving it on a week, then vacuuming it up. As it turned out,
we did not need to use it. Trust me, bug bombs are worthless.
Vacuuming religiously and disposing of what you vacuum is important.
Eggs take about three days to hatch, I believe, and you have to kill the
newly hatched before they lay eggs.