How to Use Boric Acid to Kill Fleas

Video Transcript

"Hi friends, I'm Mark Govan here with ABC Pest Control in Largo, Florida and some people have asked me how about using boric acid for flea control with inside the home. Well it's a wonderful idea. Boric acid will work very well for you. The first thing we recommend is that you go ahead and you throughly vacuum your entire home so that means vacuuming all your carpeted rugs as well as the carpet itself and washing any of the pet bed areas that you may have. If you have a dog and he has a little special bed area, you want to go ahead and make sure that is all washed. Then the boric acid you can go ahead and take that out, now it's not an acid, it's actually a powder and what you do is you go ahead and you, there's a special way to either treat it with a liquid bottle, you can use a pump up sprayer and spray it around the home and once the water dries off the boric acid is still there. Now how does the boric acid work? Well as the flea comes in contact with the boric acid, it has very, very shard edges and what happens is as the flea picks that up on it's body, it walks and moves around and as it moves, it rubs little holes in their bodies and it dries them out. So it's a good way to get rid of fleas inside the home. It's safe and natural for you to use as well. So these are different ways for you to go ahead and control fleas within the home. I'm Mark Govan with ABC Pest Control right here in Largo, Florida helping you keep pest free."