2006-12-18 15:12:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
i had bed-bugs too in my home. now they are completely gone.
i followed a few simple steps.
1. i treated every nook and corner of the bed and cupboard with KHATNIL. it is an insecticide available in market.
2. i ironed all my clothes with very hot temperature.
3. i poured extremely hot water (in my bathroom) on all my bed-sheets, mattresses, pillows, pillow-covers, night-suits.
4. got my furnitures polished with espirit & machine.
5. i repetead the same procedure twice at the gap of 4 days (so that the newborn bugs can be killed), as the eggs of the bedbug can survive this kind of slaughter.
2006-12-18 15:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by nick_name_less_than32characters 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is what I used to do when traveling in the third world. I would turn out the lights in the room and wait several minutes, then turn the light back on and quickly pull the blankets back. You could catch the little devils on the sheet. They had these sucking tubes they stuck up through it. If I found them, I'd pull the sheets off and hit the mattress hard with Raid crack and crevice spray or its foreign equivalent. I carried a plastic sheet that I'd put on the mattress and remake the bed. I carried my own pillow. I don't know if you can actually get rid of the nasty things. I would chuck my mattersses, and bug bomb my house. They suck on you at night while you're sleeping. I've heard they like to crawl up and drink from you eye, then turn around and poop in it. Nasty bastards.
2006-12-18 15:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Kim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can see bed bugs with the naked eye. Firstly you will know you have bed bugs when you see little blood spots on your sheets or pillows in the morning and you itch a bit and have small bites.
They are very hard to get rid of. They hide in the seams of the mattress and bed base and place where you never look. You need to peel back the tread around the egde of the mattess and you will see them. If you have plastic corner protectors on the corner of your bed base, take them off - you may find them hiding behind. They will also hide in the seams of blankets and bedding. You will not see them just on the surface of the mattress or bed base - you need to go looking. They are nocturnal and come out looking for warm things to bite - like you!
They can jump up to a metre - so watch out all around your bed. The bugs themselves can be killed with a insecticide available from most hardware stores - however this does not get rid of the eggs, which hatch, more bugs more eggs - catch 22. You need to treat the mattress and base each day for up to a week to ensure you kill off the complete cycle. In warmer climates, wrap the mattress in plastic (like the plastic bag it came in when new maybe) and put it in direct sunshine for a week or so. This kills the bugs and the larvae. Wash all bedding in a hot wash if possible.
As mentioned, they are really hard to get shot of - and if you are not sure I would suggest calling in the experts
2006-12-18 15:27:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
SPRAY KHATNIL OR TIK--TWENTY every week in every nook and corner of the bed , and furniture if u feel they are there
2006-12-18 17:19:24 · answer #4 · answered by pali@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef636.htm
this website should give you all of the answers that you need. It includes pictures of bedbugs, and the signs of bedbugs on your mattress. Good luck!
2006-12-18 15:16:08 · answer #5 · answered by kimberly b 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no joke-freezing is their death
2006-12-18 15:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋