How To Get Rid of Bed Bugs: The Complete Guide (13 Most Effective Techniques)
https://www.mattressinsider.com/blog/guide/how-to-get-rid-of-bed-bugs/
A personal experience with bed bugs
http://insectsinthecity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/personal-experience-with-bed-bugs.html
Bad Bed Bugs
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/03/5/bad-bed-bugs
Do-it-yourself Bed Bug Contro
https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/do-it-yourself-bed-bug-control
How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs
“Follow an integrated pest management (IPM) approach
Bag and launder (122°F/50ºC minimum) affected items
Point steam on them
Vacuum your house
Repair cracks in plaster and glue down loosened wallpaper to eliminate bed bug harborage sites
Consider using insecticides
Enlist the services of a professional pest control firm
Discard affected items
Use tea-tree or ti-tree oil to clean with”
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Bed-Bugs
Bedbugs
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bed-bugs/Pages/Introduction.aspx
How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs in 4 Easy Steps
“1) Encase Your Mattress / Remove Hiding Places
2) Isolate Your Bed / Stop the Biting
3) Steam & Clean the Room
4)Spray & Powder Cracks & Crevices”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpoy8kiePY
Bed Bugs, National Geographic Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKCcSPCOQo
How to Kill Bed Bugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73uEPmSRmg#t=1.277979
Mothballs, rubbing alcohol score poorly in tests of DIY bedbug control
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mothballs-rubbing-alcohol-score-poorly-tests-diy-bedbug-control
Bedbug Trap – The Williams Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuKHsqubCm8
How To Find Out If You Have Bed Bugs Discreetly – Surge Protector Bed Bug Trap Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeiYCCC3ijQ
Dr Oz And Bed Bugs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnFz3STqHE
the co2 bedbug trap: step by step
https://julesnoise.com/1-2/
How to Avoid Insect Bites While Sleeping
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Insect-Bites-While-Sleeping
Bed Bugs Killing them in 24 hours Diatomaceous earth test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwPv6UVGUQ
How I Fought Bedbugs And Won, by Jasmine Moy
https://theawl.com/how-i-fought-bedbugs-and-won-5b9a35a34e15
British Pest Control Association
“British Pest Control Association (BPCA) is the UK’s leading trade association for pest control. We provide support and a voice within the sector to over 650 members and 6,000 affiliates.”
http://www.bpca.org.uk/pages/index.cfm
Bed bug control techniques
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug_control_techniques
Bed Bugs-Cimex lectularius
http://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/bed-bugs/bed-bugs/
Pesticides to Control Bed Bugs
https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/pesticides-control-bed-bugs
Getting Rid Of Bed Bugs – How To Kill Bed Bugs
“Reduce clutter to make bed bug inspection easier. Be careful when removing items from the infested area to other areas because you may transfer the bed bugs.
Personal items (stuffed animals, soft toys, blankets) should be removed, cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, and bagged in plastic for a couple of days with Nuvan Strips. You can also bag laptops, phones and radios as well. The insecticide in Nuvan strips will not harm these items, and is non-residual, so you don’t have to launder them after using the Nuvan strips
Dismantling bed frames in infested areas may expose additional bedbug hiding sites.
Remove drawers from desks and dressers, and turn furniture over to inspect and clean all hiding spots. All furniture should be pulled away from the walls.
Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs. If the fabric is torn (possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying. If the mattress and or box springs are infested, you may want to consider Encasements by Mattress Safe. Once covered with these encasements, bed bugs can not enter or exit. There is no need to treat the mattress or box spring when using these encasements. Keep them on for a year.
Active Guard Mattress Liners may be used on the mattress or box springs, killing bed bugs and dust mites for two years. Not only will it kill active bedbugs, but helps prevent bed bugs from infesting beds.
Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and molding to further reduce harboring areas.
Since infested garments and bed linen can’t be treated with insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120 degrees fahrenheit minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linens for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.
Thoroughly clean the infested rooms. Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.
Vacuum areas of bed bug infestation with a vacuum attachment. Vacuum along baseboards, furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, foot boards, bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding, as well as the edges of the carpets (particularly along the tack strips). A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration. Bed bugs cling tightly to surfaces, so it is best to repeat vacuuming by scraping the end of the vacuum attachment over the infested areas to pull out the bed bugs. It is not good to use a bristle attachment, because you may transfer bed bugs to other areas since they cling to the brush. Dispose of vacuum cleaner bags after you are finished.
Caulk cracks and crevices in the infested building exterior, and also repair openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.
Monitoring devices such as the SenSci Volcano Bed Bug Detectors and Bed Bug Monitor Traps should be placed around the infested area to help determine where the bed buge population resides. It is important to know that these devices are for monitoring only. Lack of trapped bed bugs does not necessarily mean that you are bed bug free.”
http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/bed-bugs.htm
Bed bugs: Do-it-yourself control options
“Determine which rooms are infested. Bedrooms are the principal locations for bed bugs; however, any room where people sleep in the home may provide harborage for bed bugs. Living rooms with sofas and sofa beds are the next most common sites for bed bugs. Typically an infestation starts in one room and spreads slowly to other places where people sleep. The sooner you find and treat bed bugs the easier it will be to get rid of them. Wait too long and bed bugs may be found throughout your home.
Don’t throw your bed away. It’s generally unnecessary to throw away beds or bedding. It is expensive to replace bedding, and chances are that any new mattresses, box springs or beds you bring into the home will quickly become re-infested. The money to replace a bed or mattress might better be spent on hiring a professional.
Create a safe place to sleep. This is critical because staying in your own bed will reduce the risk of bed bugs spreading throughout your home. If you move to another room to sleep, the bed bugs will eventually follow. Then you’ll have bed bugs in multiple rooms. Make your bed a safe place to sleep by:”
Select and use insecticides safely. There are no magic sprays that kill bed bugs very well. Most commercial insecticides will kill bed bugs if applied carefully and directly to the insects and their hiding places. An exception is “Bug bombs”, or aerosol foggers. Foggers are mostly ineffective in controlling bed bugs. Because bed bugs hide in crevices and voids where aerosols do not penetrate, they are able to avoid contact with these insecticides. Their use is not recommended. Some of the products you may find helpful include:
Track your success. Interceptor cups under your bed posts are also one of the best ways of keeping track of your success with bed bug control. Check the cups regularly and empty into a trash bag or bucket of soapy water. You may even want to keep track of how many bed bugs you catch weekly so that you can track your success. Wipe out the interceptors and make sure they are clean. Some devices, like the Climbup Interceptor, require redusting with a very small amount of talcum powder to make them slippery again and reduce the bed bug’s chance of escape. Note that talc is not toxic to bed bugs, but simply makes it harder for them to climb out of the cup. The talc should be barely visible, and more is definitely not better.”
http://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/biting-stinging/others/ent-3012/
Repellency of selected chemicals against the bed bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).
“In recent years, the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), became a major public health concern in urban communities. Bed bugs are notoriously difficult to control, and their bites are not tolerated by most people. The public has an urgent need for materials and methods to reduce bed bug introduction and bites during work, travel, or sleep. A repellent product will help achieve these goals by discouraging and preventing bed bugs from moving to a protected area. We evaluated the repellency of three commercially available insect repellent or control materials and five nonregistered materials with the goal of identifying safe and effective bed bug repellents. The two commercial repellent products that contained 7% picaridin or 0.5% permethrin had little repellency against bed bugs. N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), the most commonly used insect repellent, provided a high level of repellency against bed bugs. When a host cue (carbon dioxide) was present, the minimum DEET concentration to repel > or = 94% of the bed bugs for a9-h period was 10%. The longevity of repellency of DEET was concentration dependent. At 25% concentration, DEET-treated fabric surface remained highly repellent to bed bugs for a 14-d period. However, DEET has a strong smell and dissolves certain plastic materials. Therefore, we evaluated several odorless, noncorrosive, and potentially effective repellents. Isolongifolenone and isolongifolanone, two natural products and recently reported insect repellents, exhibited strong repellent property against bed bugs but at significantly lower levels than DEET. Three novel potential repellent compounds discovered by Bedoukian Research Inc. (Danbury, CT) exhibited similar level of repellency and longevity as DEET for repelling bed bugs. These nonirritant and odorless compounds are promising candidates as alternatives to DEET for reducing the spread of bed bugs and bed bug bites.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24498754
Bedbug Revival 2011: What You Need to Know
“In April I moved from one bedbug infested district of Brooklyn to one infested worse. With 550 complaints filed in the bedbug registry in 2008, Bushwick, my new neighborhood, surpassed Central Harlem in Manhattan, Astoria in Queens, and University Heights in the Bronx. At every hardware and grocery store on the surrounding blocks, I eyed the array of bedbug sprays for sale beside the cash register. And had I not talked to experts while writing this blog post, I would have bought them as a preventative measure.”
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/bedbug-revival-2011-what-you-need-to-know/
How To Kill Bed Bugs With Steam Cleaner?
“Bedbugs are small, oval, brownish insects that live on the blood of animals or humans. Adult bedbugs have flat bodies about the size of an apple seed. After feeding, however, their bodies swell and are a reddish color.
Bedbugs do not fly, but they can move quickly over floors, walls, and ceilings. Female bedbugs may lay hundreds of eggs, each of which is about the size of a speck of dust, over a lifetime.
Immature bedbugs, called nymphs, shed their skins five times before reaching maturity and require a meal of blood before each shedding. Under favorable conditions the bugs can develop fully in as little as a month and produce three or more generations per year.
Although they are a nuisance, they do not transmit diseases.
Where Bed Bugs Hide
Bedbugs may enter your home undetected through luggage, clothing, used beds and couches, and other items. Their flattened bodies make it possible for them to fit into tiny spaces, about the width of a credit card. Bedbugs do not have nests like ants or bees, but tend to live in groups in hiding places. Their initial hiding places are typically in mattresses, box springs, bed frames, and headboards where they have easy access to people to bite in the night.
Over time, however, they may scatter through the bedroom, moving into any crevice or protected location. They may also spread to nearby rooms or apartments.
Because bedbugs live solely on blood, having them in your home is not a sign of dirtiness. You are as likely to find them in immaculate homes and hotel rooms as in filthy ones.
When Bedbugs Bite
Bedbugs are active mainly at night and usually bite people while they are sleeping. They feed by piercing the skin and withdrawing blood through an elongated beak. The bugs feed from three to 10 minutes to become engorged and then crawl away unnoticed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy6E6fAYrNM
Diatomaceous Earth
“Diatomaceous earth is not poisonous; it does not have to be eaten in order to be effective. Diatomaceous earth causes insects to dry out and die by absorbing the oils and fats from the cuticle of the insect’s exoskeleton. Its sharp edges are abrasive, speeding up the process.”
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html