How to Make a Pet Friendly Flea Trap

By Richard Sweeney

Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

Pie pan
Water
Dish soap
Lamp

Step 1:
To build a flea trap, take a pie pan and fill it with about 1/4 inch of water with a squirt of dish soap. Without the added soap, fleas are able to walk across the water. The soap breaks the surface tension in the water and causes the fleas to drown.
Step 2:
Suspend the light source over the water. Fleas will jump toward the heat of the lamp and land in the water.
Step 3:
Put one or two of these traps in each room with a flea problem each night until there are no fleas in the solution the next morning.

Tips & Warnings

You can also use a votive candle for the light source.
Place the pie tin in a stable location.

Photo/Video Credit

Public Domain

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