Why Fleas Are So Hard To Kill

Fleas are incredible jumpers, but their talents don’t stop there. With the ability to sense warmth and vibrations, they're perfectly adapted to find blood-filled mammals like dogs and cats. What they do next will give you chills — and hopefully, nothing more.

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Why Fleas Are So Hard To Kill

[harlemhornet]

So for the first time in my life 2 summers ago I had the life changing experience of somehow getting a flea infestation in my house. It was one of the most F'd up and stressful things iv ever experienced. Being totally serious, it messed me up for a while. The thing is.. THEY DON'T DIE. THEY GET EVERYWHERE. And just when you think they're gone.. THEY COME BACK. Hours and hours of vacuuming. Washing clothes and linens. Vacuuming more. Scratching your head. Obsessing over getting your bed and room clean. Obsessing over looking at your food because your paranoid that they jumped into it. (which they do). If a washed piece of laundry happened to fall onto the carpet.. Wash it again. I know it sounds crazy.. but I'm telling you guys.. if you've ever experienced a flea problem then you know what I mean. Not allowing people into your home for fear of them bringing them home and infesting their own house. Literally thinking about it stresses me out lol. God I hate fleas. Thank god that issue got resolved. 6-8 months of literal hell.

[ultrastore]

The creature that is endangered : Panda
The creature that should be endangered: Fleas

[kristinacater]

When my cat had fleas I wore white tube socks and walked around my apartment to catch fleas. After I combed my cat, I dipped the flea comb into a cup of soapy water and used a stick to get them off the comb. It was satisfying to watch the fleas drown.

[emiebex]

If every Flea on earth went extinct right now I could sleep better at night.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Dogs and rats: exist
Fleas: it’s free real estate

[yourdailydada]

The doctors from the Black Death were much cooler, they had cool masks and canes.What do doctors of today have? White coats and being scared of apples.

[flavvsdasilver]

Video is mistitled, should read: "Fleas: An overview (But Not Why They Are Hard To Kill)"

[patrickcollins]

0:05 this is a picture depicting the Great Plague of London, not the Black Death.

[gaurangverma]

1:11-1:17 there are more in these 6 seconds than there are in the entire video

[snakiee]

You have to vacuum the whole house, the car, and wash the pets bedding EVERYDAY for at LEAST 10 days, this is to make sure you get rid of all stages of the cycle of a fleas life. If your vacuum has bags in it you have to dispose the bags everyday. You also want to treat the yard if you have one. Fleas don’t live on the animal so flea baths and treatments won’t do anything if you don’t also kill all of the fleas living in your home off. After ten days you can overkill it by using carpet shampoo and/or a flea bomb. Always go to a vet for flea treatment and shampoo, too many animals have died from over the counter treatment (from hartz specifically).

[EleanorJosefina]

*Me:* I should really start doing my homework

*Science Insider:* Uploads another video

*Me:* Nvm. It can wait. 😂😂😂

[sentdc]

Hate those things! One lady at work has a dog or cat, so quite often I get these boogars on my legs, at a sock-line. I guess they jump right off the carpet on me. (I have no pets myself.) Interestingly though, I seem to be the flea-magnet. Two other ladies that work in that office don't seem to notice. The question is why?
PS. I learned that to kill them you have to use your two finger nails. It squishes them right up into a bloody mess.

[ninjanerdstudent]

This is the longest ad for cleaning I have ever watched.

[BrutusAlbion]

Ah yes more wonderful creations from God.

[jakexgold]

A family of 5, we had fleas for years, but suddenly all the fleas had gone, we had done nothing to get rid of them, except so seemingly the next door neighbor’s cat had gone after the they had moved house. Lowest winter room temperature of our house is 9c, but been through the winter before and fleas was yet in place, then suddenly all the fleas had gone without any obvious reasons!
Writeable DVD disc goods has a transparent plastic disc included, I broke 1 of them into a triangular shape, so with the full DVD disc clap on a clothe that has flea, I keep hold onto it and can see the fleas underneath the see thru disc, the fleas can’t move or barely able to move under the disc. Next I hold the triangle piece and use the pointed sharp end to kill the fleas after I shift the disc slowly to let the flea exposed to the ledge rim of the disc (I taped up the hole in the centre of the DVD disc). I had killed over hundreds of fleas this way. Each night I sit by my bed and wait for the fleas to come out from the carpet to my pant’s bottom rims, I use the DVD disc to trap the fleas and stop it from escaping.

[maddisonr]

This video is giving me no hope of killing the fleas in my apartment. Your making them seem so invincible thanks 😒

[oy]

get god on the phone, we need to talk

[DpGc]

Here I am, instead of going to sleep I watch a video about fleas...

[chxx]

why does nature have to give the pests the upgrades and humans nothing?

[Fernandosampaio_]

I do a flea trap, and here how it works, you take a bowl put water in it then put a candle in the middle. the fleea are going to jump in the warm candle and then probably drown in the bowl water.