Brick Top
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fleas DO NOT live on plants.
LUDA.
That is right but wherever they nest and lay eggs you will find fleas. If a dog scratched off a flea or two in the grow room and they nested in the pots the grow room will be infested and anything that goes in there will be eaten alive. The fleas will not live off of the plants but they will have come from nesting in the soil and then will hang around the area waiting for a meal to come.
　
Plants/soil is no different than carpet. If fleas nest there and lay eggs there you will have fleas in that area and they will not so much spread as in they travel around looking for food but more as in more nesting pairs lay more eggs in new areas just a bit a way from the first, and that is how they spread. One nest/family will tend to stay pretty much localized if not carried elsewhere by an animal or a person.
　
An example of that is I have a room that is 30 by 30 and several years ago I had two hot spots of fleas thanks to my having left a neighbors dog in that did not have flea and tick stuff on them. I bombed several times but evidently there were some eggs deep enough in the carpet that they would survive and hatch and the fleas would come back. They did not spread to the rest of the room. If I did not walk in those areas, areas about the size of a hubcap, I never had a flea on me. If I walked through those areas I could be covered with them if it had been a while since I last bombed.
　
One day I mentioned my problem to a neighbor who just by chance sells various different chemical products, insect control sprays among them, and he still had a few cases of an older now illegal spray that he said had an amazing residual effect and he said one spraying and the fleas would be gone. Even if more hatched the residual effect would kill them and it would break the breeding cycle.
　
I sprayed the two areas and just as he said the fleas were gone and gone for good. They never spread beyond those two areas though, the rest of the room was as if there were no fleas in it at all. Oh . And about the amazing long lasting residual effects . For about the next two years any bug that crawled over those areas of the carpet did not make it out the other side they died in the area I sprayed and that was not only after having of course vacuumed a zillion times but also having had the carpet cleaned once. No wonder the product was banned. If after all that time and all that cleaning it was still killing bugs you know it had to be some nasty stuff.
　
Anyway with 3 dogs and a cat, and having as many as 5 dogs and 4 cats at once and living in the South I am rather familiar with fleas and ticks.
His grow room can be infested. The fleas may even be on his plants just as they would be on grass in nature but they would not be living off the plants . but they could be living in/on the soil and in the grow room.
