I never gave much thought until my daughter stayed at a hostel in Poland that had them. They left after they woke with bites the first night. They came home and had to keep all their stuff in a freezer (taking turns because it was a small euro freezer). It took something like a month to rotate all their stuff through.
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A 160 degree oven works better and more quickly.....fabric, leather, computers.....
DDT can be obtained through “back channel” sources. Repackaged as Diatomaceous Earth it hides in plain sight in the tool shed.
Hair drier on High setting or a heat gun on Low will kill the adult concentrations when found. The DE swept under base boards is good too for longer term defense for all insectivora.
Then there is, or was,
Bendiocarb is an acutely toxic carbamate insecticide used in public health and agriculture and is effective against a wide range of nuisance and disease vector insects. Many bendiocarb products are or were sold under the tradenames “Ficam” and “Turcam.”
All bendiocarb-containing products in the United States were recently cancelled, after its manufacturers voluntarily chose to pull their products off the market, rather than conduct additional safety studies required by the EPA.[1]
In other countries, it is still used in homes, industrial plants, and food storage sites to control bedbugs, mosquitoes, flies, wasps, ants, fleas, cockroaches, silverfish, and ticks but can be used against a wide variety of insects as well as snails and slugs. It is one of 12 insecticides recommended by the World Health Organization for use in malaria control.[2]
Bendiocarb is not considered to be carcinogenic, but it is acutely toxic. Like other carbamates, it reversibly inhibits acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme required for normal transmission of nerve impulses. Bendiocarb binds to the active site of this enzyme leading to an accumulation of acetylcholine, which is required for the transmission of nerve impulses, at nerve muscle sites.[1]
Bendiocarb was invented in 1971 and was first introduced into the market by Fisons Ltd. It is currently marketed by Bayer CropScience and Kuo Ching under various trade names: Ficam, Dycarb, Garvox, Turcam, Niomil, Seedox, Tattoo
Bendiocarb is highly toxic to birds and fish. In mammalian tissue, carbamates are generally excreted rapidly and do not accumulate.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendiocarb
Really? Id it the same thing? People use that here all the time to fight scorpions.