Can fleas live without an animal host?
You’re right, fleas will bite us but don’t normally live on us. You mission now is to get rid of the fleas, flea eggs and larvae that remain in your apartment. Fleas can hatch in just a few seconds it they sense heat or vibration. You don’t have a cat anymore so your own body or even a vacuum cleaner can cause them to hatch. “Vacuum floors, rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and crevices around baseboards and cabinets daily or every other day to remove flea eggs, larvae, adults, and food sources. Vacuuming is very effective in picking up adults and stimulating preemerged adults to leave their cocoons, but it is not as good at removing flea pupae because they are attached to carpet fibers and can withstand the pull of the vacuum. Flea eggs can survive and develop inside vacuum bags and adults may be able to escape to the outside, so immediately destroy bags by burning or by sealing them in a plastic trash bag and placing them in a covered trash container.”
