Are these flea eggs on my desk?
Unexplained markings or debris on a desk, mousepad, or secondhand furniture often trigger suspicions of a flea or bed bug infestation. Because identifying these spots definitively is difficult, people end up adding their entire workspace to their daily vacuuming routine just to manage the potential threat.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1daily vacuuming of desk and mousepadDid this help you?
- 2ordering flea trapsDid this help you?
- 3planning to use alpine flea and bed bug aerosolDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“bought this bed frame on marketplace and noticed these markings at the bottom. is this a bad sign for bed bugs? No other markings on the wood”source ↗
Where this came up
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