How to get rid of bed bugs
Want to know how to get rid of bed bugs without reading this entire site or without spending a fortune on pest control? I’m going to explain how you can do this yourself using natural products found at most stores.
- Perhaps you live in an apartment complex and the owner feels it’s too expensive to hire a pest control company;
- Perhaps you want to erect a barrier that will prevent bed bugs from entering your apartment or condo;
- Perhaps you have been bitten, are afraid that your brought them home with you and want to prevent them from spreading?
- Perhaps you have no idea what is biting you, but want to put an end to it?
How to get rid of bed bugs is as simple as spreading around a power called Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth (also know as Silica Dioxide or Silicone Dioxide). This is non toxic, can be purchased at just about any feed and supply store and as you can read from visitor comments, works great!
Some people have had luck with flea and tick power which does the same thing as Diatomaceous Earth; that is, it dehydrates the bugs and causes them to die.
You spread this around your room (create a perimeter) and when the bed bugs cross the dust / power, they coat themselves and become dehydrated.
That is exactly how to get rid of bed bugs and prevent them from entering your rooms, etc.
Just this week I read a report where a team of scientists have found a way to scare bed bugs.
Bed bugs usually don’t come out to feed until humans are in a deep sleep which seems to be around 4am. They don’t usually appear in the day and can be very hard to spot (they are good at hiding!).
By spraying an area with a synthetic version of a bed bug’s alarm pheromones, bed bugs were found to start moving within five minutes after the application regardless of the time of day!
Diatomaceous Earth works great as long as the bed bugs walk through the power; with this new discovery, the bed bugs become so agitated, it’s almost guaranteed they’ll cover themselves with dust (provided it’s applied in the right locations).
There needs to be more testing before you’ll be able to buy Diatomaceous Earth mixed with these alarm pheromones, but if all goes well, you should start seeing products very soon.
For now, the best way to kill bed bugs is by applying Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth in the right locations. There are a ton of comments from visitors from around the world explaining how they got rid of bed bugs using this natural power found on our bed bug treatment page.
Warning! Make sure it’s FOOD GRADE Diatomaceous Earth – if it isn’t, it’s dangerously unhealthy!
Diatomaceous Earth (aka Fossil Shell Flour) is sometimes found in amorphous form, which can cause silicosis; it should NEVER be mentioned without a safety warning near enough so it can’t be missed. On the other hand, food-grade DE is considered a safe additive in foods and feed, and regularly used to prevent digestive infestations. In livestock.
If you would like details on the study I refer to above, visit the Journal of Medical Entomology’s article on how to get rid of bed bugs.
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My daughter brought home bed bugs when she spent the night at her friend’s house. We had Orkin Pest Control spray 4 times. It did not get rid of the bed bugs. We threw out mattresses, clothes, books, etc… Nothing worked until we found the right pest control company.
They sell an Insect Killer (food grade Diatomaceous Earth) which kills bed bugs. You must carefully follow the directions. We dusted our carpet with the product then vacuumed it up hours later. We encased our new mattresses and box springs with mattress protectors and pulled our beds away from the wall. Make sure blankets don’t touch the floor. Make sure bed frames are bed bug free. We purchased steel frames and threw out our wooden ones. Put the powder around the legs of the bed. When the bugs crawl up to bite you, they have to go through the powder to get you. The powder kills them. Keep applying the powder once a week for 5 weeks. Eggs hatch. The insects will then want to feed. It took 4 weeks to completely rid our house of the bed bugs. The product really works. Nothing else worked. We have been bed bug free for 3 years now.
Warning the powder is hard on the vacuum cleaner. We eventually bought a shop vac from Sears to vacuum the power.
Good Luck.
Hi, I have living with bed bugs for over a year. I have tried everything to get rid of them. They are in my scalp, my hair, they created a hole in my left leg. Jim, I’m telling you that bed bugs can come out during the day, not just at night. I have seen them biting me during the day, and I have to pull them off me!
The diatomaceous earth stops working after 2 weeks. You need to vacuum and re apply. This is an epidemic that needs to be addressed. I am tired of them living on me. I will continue to fight to kill these pieces of scum that serve no purpose. THEY CAN GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The people that have bed bugs you are being tormented by the devil. Need to read the bible. Me too. God will deliver me from this !!!!!!!!! Trust in God
We have been suffering with Bed Bugs for quite a while now….we’ve tried practically EVERYTHING short of a professional exterminator (which they will be coming out early next week). Unfortunately, everyone BUT me in my family is getting bit, or as I read somewhere, I’m not having an allergic reaction to the bites, I have no bit marks or red spots, so I’m a little hesitant to believe that, but whatever.
My husband and 2 children are practically getting eaten alive….We used diatomaceaous earth and as much as I would LOVE to say it worked, it didn’t…it did not get rid of them completely, but I will say that I think it helped for a while.
We put carpenter’s tape (double sided tape) and wrapped it around a plastic container and put the legs of our bed into them and then poured DE into the containers. We also poured the DE around the perimeters of our room and parts of our apartment and then put mattress covers on. This helped for a while, but drove the bugs into our other room and into our sofa looking for blood…..
I’ve never encountered bed bugs before and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy! I did read that putting your bed legs in cups of mineral oil would help….I’m going to try that next!
Oh and by the way, with the exterminator….we have to clear out our ENTIRE apartment and just leave the furniture…..the sprays will be every 10 days! Good luck to EVERYONE who encounters these little devils!
Hello,
It has been day 4 since my daughters have been waking up in the morning with a trail of bites in their arms n legs…..first thing came in my head was bed bug. After seeing the bites again i moved my bed and back spring and vacuumed around. I found 3 bugs…..does that mean there are more?, should i throw away my mattress? Please give any advice..thx
i got diatomaceous earth (bed bug dust) and put it all around and me and my famliy are still getting bit sombody help me. I need to find somthing that works i have seven kidsand im on a fixed income and im tired of seeing the bites/and bugs. does any one have a solution.
Thank you Jim! I am having another company come out tomorrow to check for bedbugs. The guy from Terminix said I didn’t have them, but something is biting me. Orkin supposedly trains other companies on how to treat bedbugs so they are coming in the morning. If I do have them what treatment would you recommend. I don’t want to say money is no object, but I am willing to pay more for whatever works best. From what I’ve read heat seems to be one of the best and I don’t’ have to go through the process of washing everything, because the heat kills it. Do you agree?
If I do have them what about the clothes that I’ve been wearing to work and to my friend’s homes. Could I have carried them there? I have visited my grandchildren and my grandson has spent the night. He usually sleeps on the floor in my room in a sleeping bag. He hasn’t been bitten, but could he have taken them home on his clothing that he is wearing? I’m just a wreck about this. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have some answers. I’m also going to see my dermatologist.
God Bless you for this website!!
Hi Ann,
You can’t bring the bed bugs with you if wash the cloths you’ll be traveling with in hot water (see our bed bug treatment page) and make sure that your luggage is free of any bed bugs (you would see them). The eggs are hard to spot, but most likely they are not in your luggage (wipe it clean).
Did you check to see if the hotel you stayed at has had bed bugs in the past? If not, visit our page on hotel bedbugs and leave a comment with the address of the hotel and your request.
You’re not going to like this, but a single bedbug can produce 5 eggs a day up to about 300 eggs. These little guys hatch in about 6 days and are very hungry. Once the nymphs feast on your blood, they can then start molting and grow into adulthood (takes about a month). Once the adult bed bug has had a good meal, they can live up to a year without feeding again if they have to!
So, yes, you could have brought a female bedbug home with you and ended up with a whole family. But, let’s hope this is not the case and it’s something like seafood (let me explain : )
From time to time I get the same red blotches, about 11:00pm, they cover my chest and shoulders and like yours, they itch like crazy! A long hot shower does the trick, and it’s not bed bugs at all, it’s seafood that is not cooked well. I love calamari and found that if it’s not fried enough, I’ll have a reaction later that night.
In your case, you mentioned red splotches, did you mean red splotches of blood? If so, then something is biting you and my case would not apply.
Last Sunday I started itching on my chest, arms, legs, stomach, pretty much all over my body. I had changed by bath soap and thought maybe that was it. I was also taking Cipro for an infection and thought maybe that was it. So on Monday the Cipro ended and I went back to my old soap. The itching continued.
On Thursday I woke up with these spots / bites all over my upper chest.. I’ve notice more mostly on my chest, stomach area. I thought maybe it was a spider bug bite, Then I was wondering if it might be bed bugs. I was freakin out. I tore my bed apart didn’t find anything. I called Terminix and thank God they had someone who came out yesterday. He couldn’t find anything and said most likely it was spider bites (see BadSpiderBites.com)
Oh I forgot to mention last weekend I took down some wallpaper in my bedroom and he said maybe that disturbed them. He asked me if I had been anywhere lately and I told him no. He said I didn’t have bedbugs. Then after he left I got to thinking I did stay at a Courtyard Marriott the 4&5 th May. That would have been a month ago. Would it take that long for the bedbugs to bite me. I didn’t get any bites at the Marriott.
Last night I put the tape around my mattress like some people had said and nothing was on it this morning. I again tore my bed apart and nothing. I have one of those Select Comfort beds so there is no typical box spring/mattress. Needless to say I didn’t sleep much. I had the TV on most of the night until around 4 this morning. I dosed on and off and kept checking for bugs through out the night and nothing. This morning when I got up around 5:30 I was itching like crazy on my upper chest. Rubbing my Tshirt over the area. Then a short time later I looked in the mirror and there was bright red blood splotches on my Tshirt. It was fresh not dried blood. I took it off and there was nothing nor nothing on my bed. I don’t know if it was from rubbing my self raw or a bed bug????
I don’t know what to do? I’m going to be gone for a week on vacation and I’m concerned now about staying with family. If I have bedbugs (even though Terminix says I don’t) could I bring them to them?
Also, I just thought of. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a new bedspread. It was in a sealed zipped plastic bag. It didn’t look like it had been opened…could bed bugs had been on that.
Will your body itch or only where your are bitten? Also if the blood spatter on my Tshirt was a bedbug wouldn’t I have seen the squashed bedbug? If I do have an infestation, how do I get rid of the bed bugs?
Any suggestions would be appreciated…or comments. Do you think I have bedbugs???
I’m the only person in the house. If I don’t know where they are what can I do. I don’t care what it costs I’ll do it. Please what is the BEST recommendation? …heat, steam, fog, spray. HELP PLEASE!
My husband brought bed bugs home in his luggage from a Comfort Inn hotel. He was bitten but got hives instead of bug bite marks, so it took us some time to realize they were bed bugs.
We hired an exterminator to treat our furniture, carpets, outlets, etc. We were instructed to remove everything but furniture from the second floor of our home, bag it tightly, wash all clothing in hot water and dry on high heat. The extermination was $700 for 3 treatments one week apart. We have had second treatment and are still being bitten.
We take our bed apart every morning and find them in the wooden slats where the bed side rails connect. Turned our furniture on it’s side and found them in the legs and small spaces under the furniture.
Harris Bed Bug killer from Ace Hdwe. works on contact, but not to eliminate completely. Purchased a Shark steamer to steam edges of carpet, blinds and bed mattresses / boxsprings. Definitely worth purchasing ($80 at Walmart) because it gets in small spaces and kills them instantly. Purchased carpet steamer to clean carpets which killed some also. Purchased sealed mattress/boxspring covers.
Most effective was this weekend when we sealed off our bedroom, turned on the heat, and placed many heaters in room to temp. of 115 for 2 hours. Monitored heaters every 15 min. for fear of fire. Found dead bed bug nymphs and adults and this temperature which also kill eggs. Didn’t get bitten that night.
We are now doing same to all bedrooms and bathrooms on 2nd floor. Good luck to all – this has been a nightmare for our family.
I went to get some DE didn’t find that, I found the organic crawling insect blocker, It said to use out side, I have put all around my bed and in all of my crack. This is my second go around with annoying little bugs, the first time I had no ideal what they was.
My grandson told me and I thought is was just saying because he heard the say of don’t let the bed bugs bit. Noooo it was, out all my 49 yrs. I have never experience anything like this. It actually scary to know that these bed bugs can take up to 120 degrees in heat or 32 below before they die!
All I do is worry about bugs now, I don’t want to be there meal. think the government or politic should have a grant for people who cant afford to have them kill, really there is going to be a epidemic around the world and people losing their minds like me.
Man, I never thought I would see the day that I would be eaten by anything. At first when I would see these bed bugs I didn’t think nothing of it that was in Aug 2009. I would just switch them away, thinking they was little lady bugs that would eventually go away. Then one day my grandson was laying in my bed I said what are these little bugs n where r they coming from? He said r they little I said yes, he said that a bed bugs.
I still thought he just heard the saying about bed bugs. Because he is nine n he shouldn’t have known what a bed bugs was I sure didn’t and I’m 49. Anyway, time went on and one night I thought i kept feeling something crawling on me. I get up turn on the light and pull me sheet back these things get to running crazy probably 3 of them.
This time I kill them nothing but at the time i didn’t know what it was, but it the blood most likely mine n my grandkids. Still not being aware they were a problem I thought that was no big deal. I finally looked under my mattress one day n there they was that when my maddness began.
My boyfriend said that I was crazy every night around 2 or 3 in the morning I would call him, he trying to slept get mad because i’m waking him up yo kill bugs n then wouldn’t go back in the room. He didn’t believe it was bed bugs either, like me as old as we are we have never once seen a bed bugs.
Then I start googling how to get rid of bed bugs n find out that where all my bites been coming from. They was tearing me up. I got rid of everything in my room the bed, boxspring dresser,clothing everything. I thought I was bb free, got me a new bed everything change out couldn’t afford exterminator.
I really thought I got rid of them. Nope 9 month later I start to see one haven’t been getting bitten,or it just wasn’t bad as the first case. I knew what it was I had my boyfriend to tackle that little guys and crush him n throw it in the stool. I’m tearing my bed up now. didn’t see any bugs. I’m pleased!
In for a rude awakening, start itching seeing little bites, I’m in denial now I didn’t see anything so they are not there wrong end up seeing babies not that many, start killing them, thinking ok i got them in time, i’m on top of this not da. The bed bugs are bad, I didn’t get rid of them!!
This time I’m going to get them for they get me Call exterminator, told me to keep spraying alcohol in holes n everywhere I might think they are at. Going to Walmart tomorrow and get DE also I pray to God it work this is terrible!!!!!!
OMG i just moved in to this wonderful house with my 3 boys and there are bats in the attic crawl space that gave us all bat bugs “just about the same as bed bugs but they prefer bats” says pest control expert my baby started to get a few bites then my other son. The landlords are putting me up in another place until taken care of but this is awlful! i cant eat or sleep. I am an ICU nurse and very use to high stress situations but this is WOW a mother. I found 2 in my mattress and i made them come and take it out. they put it in a garage behind the house I am obsesed im on the computer all night looking up more info i feel like i cant take it anymore!!!!! I put duct tape around the beds and caught a whole bunch ewwww. i think am bout to lose it raising 3 boys on my own without any support is hard enough this is so off the hook i think iam going loose it!!!
Can I put DE on y body not to get bit? And WHAT IS the hard beige substance BB leave behind? It looks like a sliver of a broken peanut or potato chip crumbs. I have DE I dusted a bowl and put a BB inside (that I caught BTWN my top sheet and comforter) covered w/ many breathing holes and the BB died in Approx 2 days and 4 hrs. I caught 1 that looked kinda gray/dusty put it in a separate bowl w/o DE. I was thinking it must have walked through the DE that’s why it’s Gray! and it died also. SO this was 2 days after putting it down.But I noticed after putting it down that’s when I saw them. I’ve never C N them just walk out like that . I’m picking up some “Bayer Advanced Home Pest Plus Germ Killer” I have a friend who used it and claimed that + mattress covers and (BORIC ACID) did the trick. I know BB won’t willingly just eat BA but may not have a choice if it’s cleaning itself or just it’s face being buried. So has any 1else tried the “Bayer Advanced Home Pest Plus Germ Killer?” I think I’ll continue w/ DE and the Bayer. Thanx 4 ur help.
I found that applying selsun blue shampoo to my bedbug bites, it will relieve the burning and itching; simply put a drop on the areas bitten.
Another great home remedy is mixing a bit of tidy cats litter to create a paste, then apply it to your bug bites to get rid of the sting. The trick is in the clay once it drys on the skin.
You can also reduce the itching by mixing a Rolaids tablet with water to form a paste. Put the paste on the bite and relief should be instant.
And last but not least, the most popular, baking soda and water to make a paste that is placed on the bite to let dry.
Okay, so i noticed a few months back waking up to a small bug on me but never knew what it was. this morning i had woke up and went to brush my teeth and there was a bug crawling straight across my white t-shirt. i asked my fiance if he knew what it was before we killed it he had no clue either. so we picked up the mattresses and found about three of them on the corner of the mattress. so he killed them and now have googled pictures of bed bugs out of curiosity (thank god for internet by the way) and YUP there it was the same bug that was on me this morning.
I have been on line all day and noticed that the NIX lice spray says kills bed bugs too. just curious if anyone else used it or not before on them to see if it really works or if I’m wasting my time on it? since i had some left over from when a friend needed a place to stay but her daughter had lice i went to the store to buy it immediately. so just didn’t want to waste more money if i had the “cure” here at home?
My 3 yr old daughter woke up with welts all over one side of her body. It looks like a mosquito went crazy. I gave her benadryl and put hydrocortizone on the welts. I sell used stuffed animal toys on the internet and I bring them home all the time from the Goodwill and other thrift shops. I never thought about bedbugs until today. It may be too late. I use the income from the sale of the toys to get nice things for my kids. I don’t want to stop selling. Any ideas on how to treat the stuffed animals so I can still sell them?
gosh, i slept at my brothers apartment on Friday, he was telling me that there was this one lady who had bed bugs at her apartment and then asked my mom if they could spread to apartment to apartment. so then my mom said i don’t know. then i was itchy all night, and today is Sunday. I have red spots on my face, arms, and feet. makes me look awful. I hate it because they are red, itchy and they feel hot. but then I washed myself with Nix. Head lice shampoo & I also washed my clothes twice with hot water and Nix. But idk can bed bugs live in your head too?
Honestly without using DE I would recommend a qualified professional to spray for them.. I work out of Phoenix for an pest control company, and unlike other pests, bedbugs have been more of a pandemic throughout the U.S. And like someone mentioned earlier even though DE is safe for pets and humans, don’t breath it in.. 100% organic DE is fossilized animals and can affect people who have breathing problems.
Thank you Randall. Do I just ask his doc to do a blood draw? Is what he’s looking for EG Rickettsa and coxiella? You’ve got my brain wondering and I think I’ll do a little google searching.
You may want to have autisic son checked by Infectious disease doctor. It is evolving thought that Lymes or lymes like diseases can cause autism. The increasing presence of these bugs could herald a return of some old diseases in a younger population set. While not lethal something chronically disabling may be there. For autism they speak of mitochondrial dysfunction when they should give greater consideration to infection by intracellular organisms.
EG Rickettsia, coxiella, just to name a few
Its more than the bite its whats in the bite. Good luck!
Bad news…. I just found this info about the DE made for swimming pools…. “make sure you don’t get the stuff that’s designed to be used in swimming pools. That isn’t appropriate for your bedroom even though it’s called the same thing. You also shouldn’t breathe it in directly if you can avoid it (the pool kind is bad for that, but “food grade” has a lower silica quantity and isn’t as big a risk).”
Not sure if I’m even allowed to offer this but will put it out there, I feel so bad so I will put this out there, they can delete this part of my post if it’s now allowed…. if anybody needs DE and can’t find it, I’m willing to have you mail me a money order for the DE plus shipping only and I will mail you how ever many bags you need. I can get 4.4 pound bags for $10.99 plus 6% sales tax. I’m in Mass and the tax just went up from 5% to 6%. :o( And here I was, soooo excited to find out that they use DE in pool filters, an easy find. Pool places everywhere. Sigh. If anybody needs me to get some DE please visit Diatomaceous Earth. I’m very honest and will mail you the receipt for the DE and for the mailing so you can see you paid for ONLY that, not even my time and gas. We got to get rid of these darn things and I’m willing to do my part.
BIG Bravo Zulu for Diatomaceous Earth(DE for short)! There is more info on this short post located at the bottom of this page, there’s two posts written by me on today’s date, 8-14-09.
http://www.badbedbugs.com/bed-bug-faq/
Here’s the short and sweet of it…..as I said, if you want to read more, click the link above…..
I know a lot of people have been having problems with finding DE since we have been told here that it is found in feed stores. I even had quite a bit of trouble #1 finding a feed store since I live in the city then #2 when I would find a feed store, they didn’t carry DE. Well in mentioning the DE to my mom, my dad said that they is what he uses in the pool filer system. I haven’t looked at it but make 100% sure that somewhere on the containor that it says that it is NOT TOXIC and if you have a pet/s that it says PET FRIENDLY or PET APPROVED. That bag I got at the feed store says Pet Approved. It also says ORGANIC, so that would be something else to look for if you buy the DE used for the pool filter. Since the DE my dad uses is for the pool filter is for the pool and not used as an organic bug killer for plants as the ones in the feed stores are, not sure if it is safe for humans and or pets to breath. So if you can’t find DE where you live, go to a POOL STORE and check out their DE. Read the containor and make sure that it is DE only with nothing else added. I just thought that this would be interesting info for those of you having trouble finding DE. :o)
Jennifer, how long does it take to work? Knock on wood, I’m 99.9% sure that they bugs are out of my son’s room as I have the mattress and boxspring double covered(long story). I got the DE, I vaccumed everything then put the DE around the corners of his room, under his whole bed, around all four legs of his bed, along the rails where you fit in the box spring, and between the boxspring and mattress. Anyway, the bugs seem to be in the couch where I sleep.
I only figured it out when I was waking up with bites, this was before I got the DE. Anyway, as I said before, I’m disabled and can’t pull the couch out from the wall to vaccum behind there. I pulled out all the cousins, inspected them, saw nothing but still vaccumed the heck out of each cushion and all parts of the couch I could see.
I put the DE under the cushions, as much under the couch I could get, under my entertainment center as much as I could. I also put it in every doorway in my apt. I then covered my couch with sheets as I thought it would keep the bugs in and make them go through the DE but NOOOO. Every night I try and fall asleep around 9 or 10 then wake up around 2-2:30 as the bugs seem to come out around 3-4. Although, after 4 one morning, I had fallen back asleep and woke around 5 as something was itching around my cheek.
I lifted my head to 3 yes THREE bed bugs running around on my pillow. :o( Everyday I seem to add more DE and another sheet, blanket, or comfoter over freshly laid DE on my couch over the last thing that covered it. I know I read the bag and it says that it takes the bugs 2 days to dehydrate after coming in contact with the DE so I thought that by now, they would be mostly gone but daily, even during the middle of the day, I find new baby ones. Every one I find, I kill and put down the toilet.
I did remember yesterday that I forgot a major thing that I was supposed to get and do. I forgot to get the steamer thing. I don’t have the money right now but will get one when I get paid my disability on the 1st. I’m gonna try and get the couch away from the wall best I can and stick the steamer behind the couch and hopefully can get a small enough one that I can steam under my couch too.
I just can’t wait to be rid of these darn things. :*o( :*o( :*o( I NEED SLEEP!
The Diatomaceous Earth works! It didn’t cost much and the dust isn’t harmful to people or pets because its all natural. I treated my apartment for bed bugs but i covered my mattress after that because i wanted to prevent future bed bugs. You can get it at your local pet store.
Jen, I’m willing to live with white dust over bed bugs any day. I live in the city and am having a VERY hard time finding Diatomaceous Earth or any of the spays with it in it. I went to a place today and they told me of a place not to far away that should have DE and I am going there today. I don’t have much money as I’m a disabled veteran and single mom to a disabled child so I don’t have the money to have an exterminator so I’m just going to put the DE everywhere til the bugs are dead and gone dust and all.
I did get the tea tree oil that was recommended and I put it on my son and myself every night; I think it works ok…. better then nothing at all. I think I have gotten one bite on my forearm and my son on his thigh since I have started using the tea tree oil. Actually, I’ve been up all night lately as
I can’t sleep thinking of these bugs crawling on my son and myself at night. I kill approx 5-10 bugs a night (those lil buggers are fast), all different sizes. I check my son through the night too with a flash light but haven’t seen any on or around him. I do have a mattress cover on his mattress and box spring that I clean and vaccum every 3-4 days. I kill my back doing it but I can’t have these vermin crawling on my “baby”.
I will write back after I get the Diatomaceous Earth and spread it around. Oh and just to be 100% sure, does anybody know for sure that this stuff is NOT piousness? I have an 8 year old son with autism and 2 cats; I don’t want to get anything that will hurt them in any way.
I dunno about DE…not a lasting treatment, unless you’re willing to live with white dust everywhere. I spread a ton of it in every nook & cranny of my room & furniture, plus Borax. Made a huge mess, but I lived with it for a week before vacuuming. As soon as I cleaned, the bugs were back with a vengeance. Just had Terminix come & spray, but not sure the guy spent enough time spraying every crevice…Got rid of bed (even though no visible signs of bugs) Afraid to sleep back in room. I am so drained, I hate the previous tenant (I know I didn’t bring it from anywhere) & the dufus landlord.
Thank you Jim. You are so kind. I will try the Diatomaceous Earth and let you know how it goes.