A flea bomb is a type of mild anti parasite chemical that has pesticide qualities. It is typically used to spread the chemical that will disable or kill the fleas in a larger area so that you can deal with all of the various parasites in your home or in a particular room. It can be a very effective way to eliminate living fleas. However, there are a number of potential drawbacks to flea bomb products, both in terms of their overall usefulness and also in regards to the amount of damage that they can do to other animals in your home and even to you.
Flea Bomb Effectiveness
Flea bombs are rated to different areas. It's very important to keep this in mind if you plan to use a flea bomb to eliminate some of the parasites from your home. If you don't use a flea bomb that is powerful enough to adequately cover the entire area of your home, you'll likely miss out on killing some of the fleas. When this occurs, you'll find that the flea population can quickly reach the level that it was again; the other fleas in the home will simply move through the open space and will continue to live and breed.
Therefore, one of the most important things that you can do in order to ensure that your flea bomb works as it should is to know exactly how many flea bombs you'll need to use. Oftentimes, you'll have to trigger multiple flea bombs at the same time in order to properly achieve the results that you were hoping for.
Eggs vs. Live Fleas
Another area in which flea bombs are not always highly effective is when it comes to the eggs of fleas that exist throughout your home. Fleas, like other insects, live in several different stages of life. When the flea is fully developed and grown, it can hop around and bite onto larger animals. Killing all of those fleas with a flea bomb will provide a good level of protection and assistance for a few days or even weeks. However, if you don't successfully kill off all of the fleas at all of their life stages, you'll find that the fleas continue to come back. One of the problems with flea bomb products is that many of them are not effective at killing fleas as they exist as eggs. Therefore, you must do repeated flea bombings in most cases in order to be sure that the bombs themselves are entirely effective.
Other Risks of Flea Bomb Use
Flea bombs also pose risks to other animals. The pesticides in the bombs are potentially harmful or mildly poisonous to the humans and the animals that live in the same house anyway. Therefore, it's important that you take all necessary precautions in order to ensure that the home is entirely safe for every other animal and that there is proper ventilation while you bomb.