Bedbugs were pretty much eliminated during the days of DDT. The
powerful DDT powder is indestructable, and continues to kill kill kill
for months and years. It was very good, too good.
Since the ban on DDT. the bugs are making a comeback. Through
evolution the new bugs have developed resistance to the new weaker
pesticides. There have been cases where the infested house is
abandoned, demolished, or resold to an unsupectioning buyer.
To be sure you don't bring them or the eggs to your new house, all the
belongings have to be heated to 160 deg f for a period of time. Other
items are simply desposed of , and replaced with new. No untreated
item is moved to your new location.
The bedbugs arive into the homes in fold of a suitcase, in the seam of
a shoe, in the cap of a shampoo bottle, in article of clothing, or
even on your body. Once established, the resistant ones are nearly
impossible to be rid of. Only are controlled so that they are not a
nuisance.
Bedbugs have been a companion of humans for thousands of years. The
odd bite will not harm. Pick them out of the seams, seal all wall
gaps. Keep the clothes dryer on high heat. If they are inside the
walls , who cares.
If I could figure out a way of heating an entire house(including the
concrete footings and concrete floors, and the surrounding dirt for a
3 fit perimter, to say 150 deg f for a few hours, without melting or
warping the plastic components, , then for sure the bugs would be all
dead. All the bugs.
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:42:12 -0500, "Tony D" <hs2bud@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Periproct wrote:
>>> "02befree" <nottoman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > Here's the story. We live in a nice area in our own home. 19 yr old
>>> > son complained one night he felt like something crawling on him,
next
>>> > day found typical bedbug gatherings underneath the mattress edging
>>> snipped
>>>
>>> > Then put out two little girls in the room
>>> > on two twin beds and they complained of bites two months later
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Can I ask how often you get bitten?
>>>
>>> One of my colleagues thought he saw a bed bug at work and now I'm
>>> paranoid.
>>> Visual inspection at home and I can't find any but one night I got
about
>>> seven bites on my upper arm plus a couple elsewhere. I put the bites
down
>>> to
>>> what we call gnats over this side of the pond.
>>> The bites were over a week ago and none since. I have read that BBs
can
>>> live
>>> for a long time on one meal so I'm wondering if they've had their fill
>>> and
>>> won't be back for a period of time.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>>
>> The bb can live up to 18 months, unfed. Life span is shorter if
>> they're eating, of course.
>>
>> Apparently their strategy of waiting 50 years for a new, unprepared
>> generation, seems to be paying off in spades for these parasites. By
>> simply filling one room with pesticide, we succeed in herding them
>> into another; and another, and another.
>>
>> So far, by staying up all night and spotting them during an approach,
>> my own standoff with these close relatives of the Assassin Bug nets an
>> average of a dozen nightly. I still get bit, of course, but generally
>> catch the biters as well by not sleeping more than half an hour at a
>> time...until well past dawn...
>>
>> Catching them with two folded index cards, though slightly difficult
>> due to their evasiveness and their tendancy to stick *hard* to
>> anything, has proven most effective in depleting their vast numbers.
>>
>> Still, the fact remains: a main hive can exist anywhere; inside walls,
>> behind books (where they leave droppings) and, of course, along that
>> funny little rim that most mattresses seem stuck with.
>>
>> I'm thinking, the only thing to do is move to an uninfected place,
>> making sure to decontaminate all possessions along the way. Otherwise,
>> some might wait up to 18 months before swarming in again.
>
>1. Do you have carpet in affected room? CHECK where rug contacts wall.
>They like dark places.
>
>Search out source:
>To monitor room, put bed legs on dishes with soapy water to try and catch
>some. Put double-sided tape on the bed legs, we are trying to determine
if
>they
>are outside of the bed in the immediate area. If so, vasiline the bed
legs
>until you resolve the situation.
>Treatment:
> Bedbugs are hell, they can survive for years, sometimes without
feeding.
>With that in mind;
>1. Do a knockdown first with a contact insecticide, I would try a
synthetic
>pyrethoid.
>2. Dust, spray (like you have) in all cracks, crevices and in the hollow
>interior of the bed frame. Do the whole house.
>3. Steam VA***N to get eggs if carpeted...
>4. Go to local P/C store and find an IGR specifically for bedbugs, this
is
>a supplement to control procedures above.
>You will have to repeat this process a few times. Get rid of any
second-hand
>furniture or take apart and do the same treatment as the bed. I would
get a
>new boxspring. Check all seams on the mattress itself.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Tony
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