when do fleas die in the home naturally?

Answer 1

A fleas life span is 6 weeks, but can live longer than a year, or even two (and without food!) During this life span, each flea can lay as many as several hundred eggs. These eggs can hatch in as few as 9 days! So, they will never die "naturally" in your home, they will continue to reproduce even without pets around. To them, a human is a good enough substitute. It is a neverending cycle, in order to kill them all, you need to treat the pets with a good flea control product that kills both egg and larvae and adult, and treat the home with a good flea killer about every ten days for about a month to get all of the fleas, eggs, and larvae. Use a good flea killer that will kill them in all of their stages, and make sure to vacuum well in between treatments and keep the areas where the pets sleep very clean. It also wouldnt hurt to do the yard area, too.

Answer 2

You have to keep killing the living ones for two weeks before they lay eggs. If you do this, you stop the cycle and all fleas will be gone. Wash every loose piece of fabric in hot, hot, hot water; vacuum every day; treat your pet with something sold by the vet, not the over the counter stuff at the grocery store; and comb off any live fleas and squish them every day. Also, there is this stuff called Seven (I think) at any home/garden store in the yard pest treatment section. You sprinkle it (white powder) in the grass and it kills seven different types of insects, fleas included. Wear rubber gloves when you sprinkle it and get a dust mask. I've did this for a three dog household and we didn't have fleas for 5 years after. Now we get one or two fleas occasionally because we have other dogs come over but I treat with the stuff from the vet every three months or so (even though it is for every month, we don't need that much and I don't like unnecessary chemicals).

Answer 3

Fleas. They make pets' lives miserable, and humans begin to itch just at the thought of them. Vets are often asked what pill, drop, dip, collar, or shampoo works the best to get rid of these persistent parasites. The answer is that there is no single method or insecticide that will completely eradicate (or at least control) a flea problem. The flea life cycle is fairly complex, and understanding the various stages will make it easier to get rid of them.
Collectively, all of the species of fleas are categorized under the order name of Siphonaptera. The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felix, is the most commonly found flea in the US and infests cats, dogs, humans, and other mammalian and avian hosts.
Fleas thrive in warm, moist environments and climates. The main flea food is blood from the host animal. Host animals are many species - cats, dogs, humans, etc. Fleas primarily utilize mammalian hosts (about 95%). Fleas can also infest avian species (about 5%). Flea saliva, like other biting skin parasites, contains an ingredient that softens, or "digests" the host's skin for easier penetration and feeding. The saliva of fleas is irritating and allergenic -- the cause of all the itching, scratching, and other signs seen with Flea Allergy Dermatitis, or FAD.

Fleas have four main stages in their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

The total flea life cycle can range from a couple weeks to several months, depending on environmental conditions.
ADULT: The adult flea is very flat side to side. There are hair-like bristles on the flea body and legs to aid in their navigation through pet hair. Fleas have 3 pairs of legs, the hindmost pair designed for jumping. Fleas are well known for their jumping abilities.

Adult fleas prefer to live on the animal and their diet consists of blood meals courtesy of the host animal. The female flea lays white, roundish eggs. The adult female flea can lay up to 50 eggs per day1, 500-600 eggs2 over several months.

EGG: The eggs are not sticky (like some parasites), and they usually fall off of the animal into the carpet, bedding, floorboards, and soil. When the flea egg hatches varies -- anywhere from two days to a few weeks, depending on environmental conditions. The larva emerges from the egg using a chitin tooth, a hard spine on the top of the head that disappears as the flea matures.

LARVA (plural = larvae): The larval stage actually has three developmental stages within this stage. Larvae are about 1/4" (6.35 mm) long, and semi-transparent white. They have small hairs along their body and actively move. They eat the feces of adult fleas (which is mostly dried blood) and other organic debris found in the carpet, bedding, and soil. Depending on the amount of food present and the environmental conditions, the larval stage lasts about 5 to 18 days (longer in some cases) then the larva spins a silken cocoon and pupates.

PUPA (plural = pupae): The pupa is the last stage before adult. The adult flea can emerge from the cocoon as early as 3 to 5 days, or it can stay in the cocoon for a year or more, waiting for the right time to emerge. When is the right time? (Never, say pet lovers everywhere!) Stimuli such as warm ambient temperatures, high humidity, even the vibrations and carbon dioxide emitted from a passing animal will cause the flea to emerge from the cocoon faster. This brings us back to the adult flea.

The entire life cycle is quite variable, as evidenced by the variability in each life stage progression. As mentioned above, the cycle can be as short as two weeks or as long as two years. That is why it is so important to remain vigilant, even when a flea problem is thought to be under control!

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when do fleas die in the home naturally?

Answer 5

They don't live that long -- but they lay eggs before they die & those can lay dormant & come back later.

If you have them in your home, spray all the rugs & sofas with flea killer & shampoo your pets

Answer 6

2-3 days but they keep breading constantly and having babys so that when one dies like 100 more are born!