Olly wrote:Rick wrote:Your conclusion is coincidence. Break their eat, reproduce, hatch, eat, reproduce, hatch, eat and so on cycle, and they'll be gone - at least until your dog or the neighbor's cats bring in new ones from somewhere else. Don't, and they'll thrive most anywhere you live.
Yes of course that's ALL it takes. Isn't that how you kill ANYTHING?
Flea eggs can remain doormat but viable for up to 6 months and will hatch when the right conditions are met... which would be warmth and dampness. Yards that have little tree cover and thus allow the yard to remain dryer as a whole will naturally have less fleas. Even when I remove them from my home or my dog there is zero way to stop them outside because other wildlife will continue to introduce them to my yard (a yard that is like paradise to them). I can and have treated my yard but when it rains every other day down here the treatment just washes away.
So I disagree that my yard is not to blame.
I guess you're right, they're probably eating us alive as I type and just have been for so long that we don't notice them.