Homemade Flea Trap

Fleas are a common nuisance, that's a given. More importantly, people with pets are the ones who have to suffer flea infestation more often than not. Your entire house, garden, backyard, everything can get infested with fleas and getting rid of them is the only thing circling around your head. Inside your home, fleas have a great mechanism to stay put and hide in your furniture, crevices of the couch, wooden floors, and other parts of the house, and of course, carpets. On top of all this, they bite us as well. Now that's something to worry about (more if you have children in the house). Although there are various flea treatment methods available in market, a homemade trap sounds much more safe to use. Don't you agree? Plus, you are not spending extra on purchasing the commercial products as well. So save your family (and pets) from the harsh chemicals most commonly used in these commercial products and learn how you can get rid of fleas from your home easily.

How to Make the Trap

As soon as you find out that your home, backyard, pet, or garden is infested with fleas, you need to take proper precautions. Why? Because female fleas lay approximately 20 to 25 eggs in one day. At this rate, you would have a disaster waiting in your way. You can easily get rid of and kill fleas with few household items. There isn't just one way but two different methods to make a trap and the list of things which are required to kill fleas is mentioned below along with the instructions.

Method 1 - Flea Trap House

• The items which you'll need are - scissors, 1 AA battery, see-through plastic cup, water, liquid dish soap, and the cover of plastic solar path light. When you have these items, move on to the next step.
• From the plastic solar path light, we need to unscrew the top off. The reason is that we need to remove the LED light which is underneath it, near the battery slot.
• When you get the LED light, place it aside and cut a square shape in the see-through plastic cup with the scissors.
• While cutting, make sure you leave about an inch of space from the top and about couple of inches from the bottom.
• In place of the LED light, place the AA battery and keep it aside.
• Fill the bottom of the cup, about 1'', with water and add couple of drops of liquid dish soap.
• Wherever the fleas are, in the house, backyard, or where your pet sleeps, place the cup there. But make sure the cup will have direct sunlight over it.
• Now replace the top of the plastic solar path light over the cup.

During nighttime, the fleas will get drawn to the light and jump inside the cup. They will drown and you won't have to worry about anything. In the morning, remove the dead fleas and replace the liquid dish soap water in the cup and place in the same or different area to kill more fleas.

Method 2 - Flea Trap Plate

• To make our second trap, you require the necessary items - honey, housing of table fan, night-light, and Styrofoam plate.
• Put some honey on top of a Styrofoam plate and place it in an area where there are fleas.
• Keep the housing of a table fan covering the plate.
• On top of the housing, you will place a night-light and leave this setting alone.
• In the night or during the day (with the drapes shut and the room being almost dark), turn the night-light on.
• The fleas will get attracted to the light and would want to eat the honey on the plate.
• The honey is sticky and won't let the fleas escape.
• In the morning or in a few hours, when the plate is filled with dead fleas, change the plate with fresh honey.

I know that you might be wondering if the traps work or not. To that all I can say is that you'll never know until you give it a try. Plus, what have you got to lose? If you think that the traps aren't working as accurately, you can try different at home methods. Apart from the homemade flea traps we just made, you can also use some natural flea remedies such as making a spray with white vinegar and water or lemon-soaked water. You can either spray this solution in your house or over your pet. Both will prevent the flea from bothering your house.