Posted on 12/28/2024 4:28:00 PM PST by george76
You don’t kill them. You eat them. Big difference.
DDT kills them, but idiots had to ban it.
rendered them resistant to modern insecticides.
“Why Are Bed Bugs So Hard To Kill?”
Dursban was outlawed.
DDT seemed to work just fine until that hack Rachel Carson ruined it.
Temps over 120 degrees kills them.
Does DDT still kill them or are they resistant to it?
Stay out of motels and hotels.
After 50 years, they probably lost resistance to it. It used to work before it was banned.
Put on clothes fresh out of the clothes dryer. Get a few portable heaters, fans and some wireless thermometers.
Go from room to room. Place a wireless thermometer on the floor, one under a mattress/cushion, one inside a sock drawer, one inside a jacket pocket and one on a top shelf in a closet.
Turn the fans on and heat the room until the floor thermometer reads about 130F and keep the heat going several hours. Turn everything off and go to the next room. Keep on going through the house until you've done every room.
Not a bad idea to repeat the process a week or two later.
We need DDT back.
Thank you for the advice.
Like cockroaches and democrats.
Then the Bayer bean counters changed manufacturing and outsourcing to relabel the product as Temprid FX…contact only and no residual or collateral kills.
Current effective product is Apprehend, which a fungus but is only effective below 80F.
“DDT seemed to work just fine until that hack Rachel Carson ruined it.”
And banned by the Nixon stooge Ruckleshouse and his wife (another Jill no less).
Bringing back DDT would save 1.5+ million lives. Malaria was almost eradicated until that lying *itch came out with silent spring and scared first world populations to sacrifice 3rd world lives (mainly children) to the alter of environmentalism.
They are easy to kill. I’ve done it. Twice. In two different homes. Diatomaceous earth. To get them to bathe in it, you have to use their own feeding patterns against them. They were in my 8 year old daughter’s room and bit up her legs. So I put fairly deep plastic containers with D.E. in them under each of the four legs of her bed. I put helpful “ramps” to the containers, so they could easily walk up to them, but then they fell in, and there was no getting out. The D.E. slowly kills them over a number of hours, slicing their shells and they dehydrate and die. After 3 days the dishes were filled and no more were to be counted. Never saw them again. In the 2nd house, the infestation was a bit worse, and I repeated the process, but using homemade CO2 emitters (yeast, sugar and a 2L bottle) with the same D.E. setup. Took a week, but they all died.
Worked for us. Saved thousands of dollars.
Actually, you want the lowest temp from the different thermometers to be about 130F. That provides a margin so that nooks and crannies of baseboards, AC register boxes, etc make it to 120F.
Household electronics seem to be ok. We never lost anything but we did lose a couple of cheap thrift store box fans in the heated rooms. Make sure you uses fans to circulate the heated air in the room.
And put a bedbug free towel under the door(s) of the room being heated.
If your children are picking them up at school, or from friends houses and bringing them into yours, you have a problem that may not be completely solvable, only managed.
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