The case of a pregnant woman with a mattress full of bedbugs.

She can’t think of having her baby getting bit by bedbugs like she is, or have him to live in poison.

Propoxur___http://www.microkat.gr/msds/Propoxur.htm

You can not spray poison Propoxur on a mattress. It is a class 6 poison and should never make contact with the skin, banned for indoor use, proven for decades to be harmful for children . And especially not on babies since  poison is 20 times more toxic for them than for adults.

Pregnant women are especially at risk as Propoxur toxicity is 100 times higher for foetuses!

A bedbug trap, it is the only thing that can save her baby from the bedbug and from the poison pusher.

Damn the poison pushers who are making the bedbug resistant by overuse and overexposure.  Using poison  as a repellent only spreads bedbugs, it is criminal to put poison in our children’s beds!

There are ways to defend ourselves, I do not need a poison pusher to “help” me for money, I can do a better job all by myself, better  than any of their self-professed  experts who  built their Industry on bedbugs. To them the bedbug is money and you will suffer until you pay unless you get rid of the bedbugs yourself.

Here is how to make a bedbug trap

The first thing to do is to stop all bites immediately and get the bedbugs not only out of the mattress but also all the bedbugs out of the rest of the bed as well as all the bedbugs anywhere elsewhere in the room.

• It is useless to take care of the mattress only as bedbugs elsewhere in the bed and in the room will re-infestes it as soon as you are done.
• But it can easily kill and get rid of bedbugs in a mattress with a plastic bag over the mattress with 2-3 pounds of dry ice in the bag to suffocate and kill all the bedbugs in 36 hours.

• Open the bag and let out the CO2 safely in a ventilated room and all the bedbugs in the mattress will be dead. Clean the mattress, it is free of bedbugs

• – That will take care of the bedbugs in the mattress. But, if the mattress was full of bedbugs, there are also bedbugs in the box spring, the bed frame and the headboard; there most probably are bedbugs elsewhere in the room.

So turn the whole bed into a bedbug trap.

———- Here is the procedure to follow: ———-

1)__Cover the whole bed

• Get a large 10′x15′ sheet of plastic –(or make your own by using a painter’s plastic, a shower curtain or even taping orange plastic bags for leaves together as a single sheet)– and cover the whole bed with it.

• Place it on the headboard from the ground up, over the top and down onto the mattress. Push it completely down to the box spring and up again to make a crease and spread the plastic over the mattress with both sides hanging down to the floor.

• Make another crease at the foot of the bed or simply down if you have nothing.

• Tie the plastic around the middle of the mattress and in the creases with a strong string, small rope or anything that is convenient for you.

(note: if you already have killed the bedbugs in the mattress with dry ice like above, the mattress can be put on top of the plastic which will now be tied  around the middle of  the spring box. You can safely sleep on it.)

• Use scissors to cut the sides of the plastic a toe space above the floor.

 

1a)__Cover the whole couch

Bedfbugs will infest any other place where you rest. If the bed is their favorite plcae, so is the couch where you spend time and where they can get to you.

Cover the couch the same way you covered the beed.

2)__Make traps and put them under the bed

• Traps can be made from articles and items you already have at home.

• To make a trap you need four small cups, four 2L bottles and 1/4″ tubing such as found in pet shop for aquarium. ___ note: some ingenious people make their tubing out of simple  plastic drinking straws.

• Attach or glue a piece of cloth or paper towel to the outside of the cups. Cut it straight at the top and cut the bottom leaving it in contact with the floor, bedbugs will climb on it to get up and into the cup.

• Brush some talcum powder in the inside of the cup.

• Make a hole in the cap of the bottle with the point of one blade of your scissors. make the hole just big enough to insert the tubing tightly in it.

• Get an old sock and cut off the toe and slip it over the bottle to cover it from light.

• Measure a length of tubing, to go from the bottles (conveniently placed out of the way near the head of the bed and against the wall) to the cups placed under each corner of the bed.

• One end goes in the hole in the cap of the bottle, use glue to seal the tubing on the cap. The other end is taped to the handle of the cup.

• The first trap is done, you will need four.

 

 

 

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Famous traps:

There were six of them and they caught 170-190 scattered dormant bedbugs.

Another trap used by the same experienced user uses a simple large coffee can for a sentinel … so they don’t get bumped over. The large coffee can with a 2 liter bottle inside make a sentinel which is on the job , 24 hours a day … slowly percolating away.

The sentinel is sitting in the same closet shown in the picture above.

“Coffee cans have a rim along the inside , which I was concerned might defeat the abrupt fall that is desired … so , I have the kind of can opener that cuts along the side … the “ring” in the photo is what I cut out …….. it worked nice , as it left no ledge at the top ….. then I attached the cloth ‘skirt’ , similar to the others pictured , and made the slower 4 cups sugar + half the yeast + water mixture.”

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Creative traps:

This trap is very efficient as it uses both major bedbug attractants : Heat and CO2

The heat comes from a heating pad on the back of a child’s chair and a CO2 generator on the seat of the chair. A tubing brings the CO2 to an inverted bowl unde the chair and is covered with Tape on the outside so that bedbugs can easill climb up and talcum powder in the iside making it impossible for bedbugs to come out.

Another ingenious trap even more efficient as the heating pad  warms up the trash can making it more visible for bedbugs and protecting the CO2 generator inside from being knocked dowm. Note the spacers underneath the can to allow bedbugs to go into it and in the bowl inside.

These are excellent traps!

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Another creative trap!

A kitchen stool  with a heating pad  and a yellow CO2 generator.

The bedbug collector is on the floor and filled with CO2 by a tubing.

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3)__Make CO2 to attract bedbugs

• We make CO2 with yeast and sugar in lukewarm (100F) water.

• Each trap needs one packet (7-8 gr) of yeast and two cups of sugar.

• With a funnel, put a full tablespoon of sugar in the bottle and the content of the envelope of yeast, add a tea cup of lukewarm (100F) water and shake vigourously until it forms some bubbles.

• Let it stand for 10 minutes and when it forms a ring of foam

• Fill the bottle halfway with lukewarm water and add the two cups of sugar. Use an extra cap to shake the bottle and to dissolve the sugar in the water with the yeast.

• Fill the bottle leaving a small space at the top and give it a last shake.

• The first CO2 brew is done, you should see a few tiny bubbles slowly rise to the surface of a cloudy brew. (You can slip down the sock during your operations).

• Put the cap with the tubing on the bottle and sniff the end of the tubing on the cup. It should smell lightly like baked bread
• The trap is ready and working.

The mixture should last 2-3 weeks

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——— Use the bed without getting any bites ———-

• Get clean sheets and make the bed, a contour sheets fit over the plastic on the mattress in the creases.

• Make sure that no part of the bed or the sheets touch the walls or the floor, no pathway or no bridges that bedbugs can use to got across and get on top of the bed where you will sleep without getting a bite because all the bedbugs in the mattress and in the rest of the bed cannot go through the plastic and that if they try to get out the only way is down to the floor where you have put your traps, you are protected from bites.

• Other bedbugs elsewhere in the room will be attracted towards the bed and will get into the traps too. If you are careful during the day, bedbugs will go into the traps at night while you are sleeping soundly.

4)__Kill the last bedbugs and final clean-up

• You will catch most of the bedbugs in the first week or two and their numbers will go down and in 3-4 weeks there won’t be any in the traps anymore. It will be time to take the whole bed and put it over another plastic sheet that you will close over the bed like a bag with three to five pounds of dry ice on a piece of foam or a on a towel on the floor and open it 48 hours later. That will kill all the bedbugs remaining in the bed.

• The bedbugs in the room are caught with the traps and the bedbugs in the bed are killed in a bag. Remove the plastics and vacuum the entire bed of the dead bedbugs, brush clean spots on the seams and remove stains with carpet cleaner. Put the bed back in its place, and leave only two traps running under the bed at low CO2 (only half the yeast in the mix). They will be sentinels against re-infestation.

The bed as well as the whole room is now bedbug free. Keep the traps running on low CO2 for three months, longer than any  bedbug can last without a blood meal.

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We had enough of being eaten alive by the bedbug and live the nightmare it brings.

• We know that if you control the food of any insect, you control the insect.

—– Do not feed the bedbugs —–

• If you do not feed the bedbug it will die of starvation, when it come out to feed, catch it with a trap and it is as simple as that.
• —– Trap the bedbugs under an impenetrable shield —–

• Put insurmountable obstacles and barriers in their path, a full shield over the bed and they will not be able to get to their food and will not be able to bite.

This is the way I treat bedbugs

… suffocated in carbon dioxide and starved to death!