Apparently, fleas can live in a home, even without pets. We spoke with pest control experts to learn how an infestation can happen in a pet-free home, and how long these parasites can live there.

Completely eliminating fleas from your home can take weeks or even months ... "It is best to work with a pest control professional to eradicate an infestation before it becomes a larger health ...

Frontline is a liquid pesticide applied between the pets’ shoulder blades once a month; it spreads throughout the skin and fur. Seresto flea and tick collars contain 250 ppt of a long-chain PFAS.

Recent public analyses of pesticide incident data have uncovered harms associated with multiple pet flea collars that had gone unaddressed by the EPA for years. In the cases of the Seresto flea collar ...