bed bugs are gross and they must have been in my place for at least 2 months before I even knew it. I've done a lot of stuff to get rid of them .... What methods besides moving and or hiring an exterminator have worked for you or for someone you know??? I really need to know ... even though they seem to have finally taken the hint and gone away ... Should they decide to come back I want to make sure "that they is history up in here in my flop."
2007-03-25 11:58:17 · 2 answers · asked by WILLOW-the-wisp-guy 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
i especially want to know about methods that I can't find on the web
2007-03-25 12:22:23 · update #1
Bed bugs are persistent. Getting rid of them requires persistence.
Bed bugs can hide in extremely small cracks and crevices making it difficult to locate breeding sites.
Bed bugs are rarely seen in daylight. They emerge from their hiding spots at night.
Bed bugs can live a year or longer without food (blood) and thus stay in their hiding places.
Bed bugs can travel long distances and survive in suitcases, clothing, vehicles, aircraft, cruise ships and other modes of transportation.
Bed bug females lay about 300 eggs.
Bed bugs hatch from eggs in 10 days.
-steam clean your carpets and couch and get a new matress.
wash clothes and sheets with hot water and then dry at hottest setting and also iron everything . the strong heat will kill them
2007-03-27 01:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clean every spec of duts, wash curtains, then use Borax (also known as Boratic Acid) powder. Cover the bed and carpet in it and let it sit at least 24 hours. Then vacume very well. This is not a garentee, bed bugs get into the matress and it is nearly imposible to get them out. You may have not choice but to through out those matresses. Your mom may want to wear some DEET to bed until the problem is resolved.
2016-03-20 19:41:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-16 16:57:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bed bugs live on human blood. They sleep in the matress in day time and then come out at night to feast on humans.
The sure way to rid of bedbugs forever is to enclose your matress in a plastic zip up cover and you pillows too.
Some people even enslose quilts in a plastic shield in infested areas in the third world countries.
Myself, I would prefer a clean sheets daily if living in an infested building
2007-03-25 13:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by James M 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This will sound almost too easy. I have had an Oreck vacuum and it removes 99.?% of dust-mites, bed-bugs, mold (almost all of these flow out of your air ducts unless you live in a new place).
Yeah, you got it; I vacuumed my bed.
However, if you do not wash your sheets (twice) in hot water and bleach ( colorfast if needed, of course) it will be all for not.
This includes everything having to do with your bed; all furniture, rails (scrubbed with bleach) and the flooring including everything in your room. Get new sheets if you need them or can afford them; get them anyway.
Oreck does not make a vacuum with attachments but they have do have add-ons (sold separately?).It worked for me. Everyone has them and all I had to do was see them under a black light with magnification to freak me out.
No bug partners in my bed.
It's not as much work as it sounds and I sleep tons and tons easier at night.
Good Luck,
Frank B.
2007-03-29 15:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Frank B 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
bed bug & dustmite are two different problem. To get rid of Bed bug is tough, even with a Pest Control expert! To fight them, you got to clean the infested room (sun it regulary), check every single item for bed bug and kill them with aerosol insecticide with residual ingredient (crawling insect product always has this property), just spray on them once you found them.
2007-03-25 20:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by cakoay66 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
moving wont stop them since they are in your bedding and matress, well i guess you can leave all that if you wanted to.
Best way to prevent and get rid of bedbugs is washing your sheets biweekly and matress pad monthly and vacuuming the matress help. Wash comforters and blankets every 3-6 months. I usually wash mine around the time I rotate my matress.
As long as you keep your bedding clean you wont have a problem with bedbugs.
2007-03-25 13:31:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Wash the bedding with ammonia. Caution do not use any bleach or washing powder with bleach in it at the same time. Set of a fumigator bomb in the area where the bed is and leave the house for two or three hours, whatever the can of fumigator calls for. Air out the house when you get back.
2007-03-29 21:44:09 · answer #8 · answered by don n 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it sounds like you have taken care of the problem. Keep doing what you have done and they will not come back. Look up bedbugs on a search engine. I am sure you will find lots of information on the subject.
2007-03-25 12:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by Jerry G 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Vacuum the mattress weekly...this will catch any hatching eggs...that should do it.
2007-03-25 13:24:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋