Fleas of DOOM!

[bladespark]

We bug bombed again this morning.

Not an hour after airing out the house, I found a live flea on my bed! ARGH! Shall wash bedding, of course, with bleach and stuffs. But why won't the @#$@%# things just DIE!!!!!!!!!!

I fear now that the double bombing is creating a mutant, resistant strain, and that we will have fleas forever. Which the fleas themselves I could live with. They're not living on me, they're living in the rug. I just have flea-bitten ankles, so it's not that bad. But JJ has more bites, and his reaction is still pretty scary. Plus as long as there are fleas there, I can't justify getting a cat. And I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant a cat. I want one so badly! *whimpers*

Bleah. I'm in an up and downish mood now. I'm moved in, I'm on my own, I'll finally get some work done tomorrow, all is good in so many ways. But I got e-mail from home, and they want my new number, of course, and I'm still tensing up every time I think about communicating with them, even though not a one of the e-mails I've gotten so far have been bad at all. I just... fear that eventually the lecture is going to come out. It's really pathetic how afraid I am of my parents' disapproval. Meh.

Comments

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

You want I should send you an anti-flea molotov? That could prove amusing if nothing else... little flea bodies everywhere...

Alrighty, lessee... dream association checklist: disappointed maternal figures, mutant fleas, copycat artists, Pride Day and 'baddie' (goodie) bags, flea bombs, eye surgery, mobbing hordes, mandatory whippings... wow, it oughta be quite a party in my head tonight! @_@

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Apparently you have some interesting things other than myself going on over there... *eyes that list*

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Can you lift the carpets? Long, long, long ago my family had a really serious flea infestation thanks to our cat and nothing we tried would kill them. In the end a friend suggested that the fleas and their eggs may not be in the carpets but underneath them in the underlay. This is especially likely if the carpets use a hessian backing rather than plastic as it makes it easy for the little buggers to get through, although even plastic weave backed carpets are vulnerable to it. And it seems that some anti-flea products don't permiate deeply enough to kill off all of the bugs if they get that far down.

In the end, what we had to do was to get an anti-flea powder, life the carpets, give the underlay a good covering in the stuff, put the carpet down and then treat that too. That one seemed to take them out in a fairly short amount of time (we were still finding small numbers of fleas for a day or two).

Another thing that might be involved is that some products are more effective against eggs than hatched fleas, so it may be the tail end of the population you are seeing but it may also require several goes to destroy the lot unless the product you're using has a long after-aplication effect.

[lin-chan.livejournal.com]

Taking a big step like this and meeting with /anyone's/ dissapproval, parental or otherwise, would be hard to swallow. Don't give it another thought.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Evil mutant poison-resistant fleas? Nuke the site from orbit, salt the earth, and build again. [begin sidetracking]

Alternatively, get just one room completely clean and sealed off from the other rooms... remove/burn/completely sterilise and clean all carpet (just remove/burn if eggs cannot be removed individually), leave nothing but plain surfaces that can be sterilised completely... put in airlocks for doors where all clothes must be removed, left in unsafe area, complete surface sterilisation... then, extend that room structure throughout the house, put in computer monitors... detectors... quarantine protocols... until the entire building is safe. *thinks* Or: seal off completely from the outside, work inwards, one room at a time... fire cleanses (almost) all... hmm. How long can their eggs lie dormant? Do they have any weaknesses? Extreme cold, maybe... or vacuum... maybe irradiation?

Unfortunately, the above probably isn't logistically reasonable. Bah...

Dormancy is a problem. If you could just leave them alone until they all starved, that might solve things.

If the quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the thing we're using gets under carpets, into small cracks, and keeps fleas out for up to seven months. Ha, I say to that. Right.