Bed Bugs Driving Me Insane

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[quote]DeeseB wrote:
Bed bugs can go 18 months without food.
Bug bombs do nothing (I don’t know how it worked in that poster’s case. They generally make the problem worse).

They’re very tedious and time consuming to get rid of. You have to wrap all your clothing in garbage bags and the exterminator needs to come at least 2-3 times. It’s also very expensive. If you accidentally wrap a bed bug inside the bag, you’ll have another epidemic on your hands when you open the bag (unless you wait 18 months). [/quote]

Well that info can be true, but it highly depends on the OP’s infestation level, when the exterminator checked my house he toldme that it was “fine” and that they were relatively very few, so there was no need to wrap clothes, he just put the chemical (wich was no toxic for the humans unless ingested) and then 2 days later we had to wash the clothes with hot water and then dry it on a drycleaner.

It wasn’t very expensive, but it was worth it, we got rid of them.

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Don’t settle on just calling an exterminator. You need to dig around and find the one that will gladly come spray an insect growth regulator like Gentrol (which is best over the long term) along with something that provides an immediate knockdown of the critter.

There are tons of other exclusion techniques you can utilize, but it’s more case specific rather than a broad generalization.

Working in Military Public health I have more than one story about these guys, but the worst one was when they were going room to room in a barracks via the electrical outlets. Fun stuff.