I want to tell you about a flea trap that I use that captures fleas and other insects 24-hours a day but especially at night.  Odds are you’re reading this because you have pets.  And your pets are super magnets for fleas, mites, ticks and any other parasite-like insect that needs warmth and blood for food.

Now I’ve purchased regular flea traps before but didn’t like the way they performed or rather didn’t catch fleas the way I wanted them to do. Those flea traps usually captured half or less of the fleas that were attracted to the trap. But I got around that so here’s the simple flea traps that I make and you can make your own flea traps today. OK, let’s start with the Ingredients.

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Ingredients: A few to several small or medium white ceramic round dish plates that have a glossy shine to them (keep reading), a few to several night lights and Dawn Dish Soap (I use the blue or green color) and some water.

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Step 01: Place the white shiny plate in an area where they can’t be seen or disturbed and are directly under an electrical outlet. I place my flea traps under the beds, besides sofas, and behind chairs.

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Step 02: Plug-in the night light in the outlet. The night lights I use are those ball-shaped nightlights that you can rotate the light 360-degrees (Intertek 3160817). I bought mine at WalMart. Nightlights are used cause many insects – FLEAS – are attracted to light. Why? Who cares. They’re attracted to the light, now let’s trap them so escape is outright impossible. Aim the nightlight so it’s shining on your shiny white dish. You may have to move the dish around. I use a shiny white dish because it enhances the light by reflecting it thus attracting fleas and other insects.

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Step 03: Now carefully pour the Dawn Dish Soap on the white shiny plate. Add some water so it covers the entire surface. DO NOT overfill. Use just enough dish soap and water to cover the entire surface of the plate so when them fleas hop towards the light and fall, they’ll land somewhere in the plate of dish soap. The dish soap water also aids to reflect the light thus attracting more fleas. Now the fleas and other insects are attracted to the light. They travel towards the light and eventually land in the watered dish soap and they’re stuck for good.

I’ve tried water alone (it evaporates), syrup (it hardens), apple cider vinegar (it evaporates), olive oil (cats lick it up) but dish soap with water is the best flea catcher. Once the flea or any other insect makes contact with the dish soap – they’re stuck, escape is impossible. Yes, you can use other dish soaps too. About once a week or so, add a bit more water to bring the water level up.

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Step 04: Now repeat Steps 01 thru 03 for more flea traps. The more flea traps you have the more fleas, flea larvae and other nagging insects you’ll catch. Thus, the less fleas that bother your pets!!!

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Step 05: You’ll be surprised at how many insects you can capture the first few days. You may want to inspect all your flea traps every month or so and clean them and re-do Steps 01 thru 03.

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