To stop bed bugs from crawling onto a bed, pull the bed frame away from the wall, tuck sheets and blankets in so they are off the floor and stand the legs of the bed in little dishes of mineral oil, or water with a drop of dish washing liquid.
Remove and inspect headboards secured to walls since this is one of the first places the bugs head for. They also hide among stuff stored under the bed.
Empty night stands and dressers, remove drawers, examine them inside and out, then turn them over to inspect underneath, looking for cracks, corners, and recesses.
Check upholstered chairs and sofas, carefully inspecting seams, tufts, skirts, and crevices beneath cushions, especially when used for sleeping.
Bed bugs like crawling upwards to hide in pictures, wall hangings, drapery pleats, loosened wallpaper, cracks in the plaster and ceiling-wall junctures.
Other common places to find bed bugs:
- Electrical boxes
- Floor cracks
- Cracks in wood molding
- Wall paper seams
- Beneath loose wallpaper near the bed
- Inside radios, phones, clocks, television sets and smoke detectors. When open, tap the smaller appliances into a bag or on sticky tape so the bugs do not jump and hide
- Under the tack board of wall-to-wall carpeting, especially behind beds and furniture.
- Amongst clothing stored in closets
- In laundry
- Within wicker furniture
- Secondhand beds, bedding and furniture; newer mattresses offer less hiding places.
Since infested bedding, curtains, pyjamas, garments and soft toys cannot be treated with insecticide, they need to be bagged and laundered in hot water, 120 degrees Fahrenheit minimum and dried using the hot setting, or discarded. They will assess your room and the rest of your home, and come up with the necessary solution to get rid of bed bugs effectively.
Bed bugs are becoming a real problem all over again. In fact, just yesterday we were able to read on the pages of Reuters (news agency) how recent research has shown that bed bugs have made a large come back to the cities of Paris and New York. In fact, the team at Ohio State University has unfortunately concluded that recently these insects have managed to evolve and become more resistant to the poisons used for their extermination. With all this said, the question remains - How to get rid of bed bugs at home?
Nature has taken care also that this annoying, bloodsucking bugs become rather smart for the purpose of their survival. They are quite sensitive to daylight so they come out only by night what also makes them hard to spot and kill. During the day they are well hidden at our couches, closets, mattresses, cracks in the floor and walls and similar cozy places far away from eyesight.
They also breed extremely fast so you cannot expect to exterminate them the traditional way - by squashing them one by one. It will not bring back results because they multiply fast and leave eggs all over the house making sure for their young ones to proceed with the family business of annoying people and sucking our blood.
Let's start with the products you can use to get rid of bed bugs yourself.
First there are pesticides in the form of insecticidal dusts. An insecticide dust is a dry formulation of a contact insecticide. You use it to powder the places where bugs usually are present.
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