Are you trying to kill your bed bugs infestation? Here are some ways to exterminate a bedbug.
About Bed Bugs:
Bedbugs are very small insects that suck blood from people at night when they are asleep. They can live in the tiniest of crooks and crannies. Any little hole may be a home for a bedbug to hide, that is until you are fast asleep. The bugs love hide and sleep during the day and then come out at night to feed on you.
They are SUPER hard to kill and exterminate. You can not just go out and buy new sheets and blankets. You can not even go out and buy a new bed. The can and will be in your carpet, in your closet, in your clothes. You have to take serious action and the sooner the better. They can take over an entire house in just a couple days.
The bed bugs have even been taking over entire buildings in days. Apartment, Condo, and Commercial buildings along the way. They can’t treat them fast enough.
When you are trying to get rid of them, you should remember to always move possibly infected items in sealed trash bags. Make sure they are extremely sealed so the bed bugs do not squeeze their way out and infect other parts of your house.
More information about bedbugs and treating
Bed bugs are becoming the most feared bug since the west nile mosquito and treating them is super hard!
Both insects have a taste for human blood and both reproduce extremely fast.
However bedbugs attack you inside your home in the most personal of areas, your BED!
If you are outside you can run inside for safety from most bugs, but not these. These are waiting for you to return. Waiting for you to sleep at night for when they wake up. Night time for them is their daytime.
They have been around for hundreds of years.
Each female is happy to give you 5 new ones everyday. Even faster when it is warmer, like the summer time, but slower in the colder seasons like winter. If there is any good news to be shared is that as of now, bedbugs are not known to carry any life threatening illnesses like say ticks do.
You will have sores on your body from their bites and unfortunately their favorite place to bit is the face. Not a pretty look to have on you and they usually leave several bites, not just one.
As much as they love the warmth of you, they hate heat. Treating them with high heat will kill them or drive them away. Leaving things in hot direct sunlight can sometimes help ensure the bugs will be gone from them before bringing them into your home.
Beside natural killing treatments, there are eco-friendly treating bug sprays available. They are good for killing adult bedbugs, but washing and vacuuming is best for getting rid of eggs. Steam is another good way to treat for them. Salty solutions my dehydrate them. When it comes to treating bed bugs, the best bet is to order a infestation control kits online or have a professional come out and deal with them.
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How to kill bedbugs and treating them yourself at home naturally without pesticides.
Treating them is hard. People often do not even know they even have bedbugs until they notice mysterious red spots on them after they have woken up in the mornings. Usually on the face but can be any where on the body really. And often there will be three spots near each other referred to as breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
They head towards the mouth to feed on mammals and this is believed to be because of the carbon dioxide that bugs like. The bedbug bites may or may not itch severely depending on how sensitive you are to their feeding.
Just like mosquito bites where some people may itch badly and some may not itch at all. Usually there are no serious effects of the bug bites however. If the infestation is so bad and you are being covered in bites, you may develop flu like symptoms and require a trip to the doctors to be checked out.
Another give-a-way that you may have bedbugs but not you are not sure, will be tiny little blood spots on your bed. Look at your pillow cases and sheets to see if you find anything.
The bugs will then lay their eggs in your bed for the next generation to come to life.
Now for killing and treating your bedbugs infestation! If you want to go the DIY at home do it yourself route, this will be your best bet. Just keep in mind, that if they return you may have to go onto something stronger.
You will need these items:
Hot HOT soapy water.
Mattress cleaning solution.
Stiff brush for scrubbing.
Vacuum with upholstery attachments
Garbage bags and twisters to seal them.
Washer and Dryer.
First, take the bedbugs infected items and shove them in a trash bag IN THE SAME ROOM as you are working.
This includes the bed sheets, pillow cases, pillows, clothes, soft children’s toys made of cloth type materials, and anything else you can grab in the room that is a place for them to hide and that can go into the washer and dryer safely.
Then turn the wash machine on HOT. Get it started but do not allow it to agitate. Just keep it on soak.
Get the water as hot as you can without burning yourself or other items and making it dangerous.
Then carefully add the stuff in the garbage bags without burning yourself with the hot water.
Then RE-seal the garbage bags as there may be possible bedbugs in the bags.
Add detergent just to take another precautionary step. You can feel safe that everything that gets this treatment will be safe, as long as they are not re-infested later on. Go ahead and dry your items that are dryer safe on the highest setting. As an different option you can also freeze them to death in a deep freezer.
But it has to get very very cold to ensure the bedbugs are dead and not just frozen to sleep or ‘half to death’.
Now you have to attack the bug infested room for treating. You need to vacuum EVERYTHING.
Vacuum the carpet, the bed, (both mattress and box springs), all furniture, the closet, dressers, etc.
Specially focus on cracks! They love cracks. Cracks in the bed or corners between the wall and carpet.
Take more really hot soapy water and clean the entire room (that is safe to wash). The walls, the furniture, and even the mattress parts. Then dry everything off and let fully dry. If you do not use pesticides you may have to repeat this several times. But keep with it, you can kill them by organic naturally treating bedbugs.
Bedbugs, or Cimex lecturlarius, should be taken VERY seriously.
Clean homes are just as susceptible to bedbugs as dirty homes.
They attack all buildings, not just homes. Office buildings and condos.
They go from unit to unit in a couple days.
They can hit almost one inch after feeding on your blood.
They sleep during the day making them nocturnal.
So they feed at night while you sleep.
Each female bug can lay up to 500 eggs during its life cycle.
Bad news is, is that they can start laying eggs after they hit 2 months old.
The bed bugs can live between a half of a year to almost two years.
They can also live off of your pets!
Cats, dogs, rabbits, are susceptible to being bit from them. Even rodents like mice.
Like a leach or a tick, you can not feel the bite due to an anesthetic in their spit that kills the pain of their bite.
They like warm blood and are drawn to the carbon dioxide humans and mammals omit.
Red spots on your pillow cases and sheets are a good sign that you are being bit and may not know it. These are dried blood spots after all.
Some report that they have as strong smell. Almost a sweet smell to them.
These smells may come from oils they produce when well fed.
They can hide just about anywhere. They love cracks, holes, and corners.
Even behind boards and wallpaper, in cabinets, behind photos, between the bed, etc.
Now for the REALLY bad news. This is probably why they are becoming more prevalent recently.
DIY do it yourself home remedies are no longer working as effectively as they once did.
Mostly because they are stronger and the bugs eggs are really hard to find and kill.
Making chemicals and pesticides the only route to go for killing the infestation fully.
Still, heat is one of the best ways to kill them. Hot water and hot air will kill bedbugs.
Freezing will also kill them, however, do not make the mistake of thinking you have frozen them and killed them only to make them go dormant to wake up later and do it all again.
Bedbugs can go MONTHS without eating. Four to Five months without blood is not a problem for them.
Some may say a year is even possible for a healthy bug.
If they sense certain chemicals, they may stop feeding to avoid dying.
They are being shipped to homes across, not only the United States, but across the world.
Unfortunately single treatments rarely work. Several treatments are usually needed. It is best to apply the treatment and wait a week or two and do it again to kill any new babies that have hatched.
Though tough, treating bedbugs is still a possibility with hard work and a little dedication.
Bedbugs are all over the news right now. They have taken over and shut down several high-end stores, retail locations, and offices recently in New York City. Offices and condos of the rich and famous are currently treating for them. A Nike store was shut down in September due to an infestation of bedbugs. More recently, it was said, that Howard Sterns show was infested with the bugs too.
They are going to spread like crazy for the next few years. Is this a bedbug cycle? After all everyone has heard the old childrens rhyme, ‘Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite’. This is not a coincidence.
But how long will we have to endure this cycle and how bad exactly will it get.
One university in Kentucky has claimed that his is just the beginning and no one knows how long or how bad it will become.
One thing that would help put fears to sleep is if we knew how to treat the bed bugs better, what a natural for predator for them would be. Something that would naturally be treating and kill these bed bugs!
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