Is it possible to kill bed bugs with normal pesticide? or do i have to use pesticide specially formulated for killing bed bugs?
bed bugs feed on ur blood. not dead skin. and their bites are really itchy.
Throw away the bed. Difficult to kill them.. Go to a specialised shop in town for the best insecticide.
Is it true that spraying some lavender oil on the folds, etc of a bed can help keep away & kill bed bugs?
I will be going on a trip and I wanted to have some kind of safe guard.
I don't know about lavender oil. Change the sheets once every two weeks (once a week if there is "activity") and spray the mattress with Lysol.
i have bed bugs and i dont want to dry clean all my delicates cus that would be too much money and they cant go in the washer and dryer cus they'll get rueined. they have a lot of decrotive things on them what else could i do?
and would just putting them in water i boiled and hang drying them then iorning them kill the bed bugs and eggs?
i hate these mother Fers! they city should be doing more to get ride of them, they've infested our cities and u can get them just from walking outside. eeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr!:(
ok i know about the matress stuff and the exterminator is coming but they told us to wash all our clothes in hot water and then put them in the dryer on high heat for an hour but i thought i could boil water and just pour it on my delicates and then iron them when there dry. and no there in the closets not on the bed. but those are the exterminators instrustions. i live in mass.
Babe - washing the bed clothes is gonna make NO difference whatsoever. You need a new mattress and de-infestation. Where on earth are you from?!
We recently found out that we have bed bugs, we thought they were ticks from the woods in our backyard. Anyway we bagged all material items washed what is needed for now, broke all bedrooms down, sprayed all hard surfaces(table joints, and chairs, etc.), everyday we spray baseboards, matresses, and carpet with 91% isopropyl alcohol. When I say spray, we are useing a continuous sprayer which puts out a continuous heavy stream. So we are actually saturating everything in alcohol. we have set up camp in our living room( its just nasty to sleep w/them) I need to know are we affecting them at all or just wasting time and money. By the way we cannot afford for the exterminator to do it, he said it was going to start at $600. So for you pros out there are we getting the job done?
I don't know if isopropanol will kill them unless you actually hit them with it. From what I understand, they are very hard to kill, and usually exterminators use heavy duty insecticides. Quite frankly, I would move out before I allowed those chemicals in my home. But what are you gonna do? One insecticide that is not too dangerous is boric acid. The bed bugs hide behind the baseboards and other woodwork during the day. So I would recommend getting a pry bar and removing the woodwork. Then spray in all cracks and crevises with dry boric acid. Make sure you have an applicator that will *spray* the dry powder. Then replace woodwork. You may not want to nail the woodwork because you may have to repeat. Maybe you should rip up the carpet too? They're probably hiding out in there. What's underneith? If it's hardwood floors, I would definitely rip up and dispose of properly so nobody takes it from the curb thinking they got some nice, free carpet. How do you know they are not in the rest of your house? They can come from the attic if you live in an old house that ever had bats. in which case they could be in the whole house. Or you might have brought them in from a hotel stay, or from an old piece of furniture. You kinda need to know how you got them, to try to figure out if the are throughout the house. But you should assume that they are. And are you absolutely certain that they are bed bugs? It's kinda hard to confuse ticks and bed bugs. So maybe you're confusing bed bugs with something else. You can usually take a sample to the county extension of your state university for an accurate identification.
I dont want to have to call someone to come out to spray my house, does anyone know where I can get a bug spray that will kill bed bugs?
http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/bed-bugs.htm
all the info you need, what to look for and how to get rid of them.
hope this helps.
Napalm