How long does a bottle/s of homemade CO2 bedbug trap last? Or how often should I refill/make homemade bedbug trap containers?
To make CO2, you need:
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1 envelope (7-8g) active dry yeast
- 2 quarts of lukewarm water (40C or 100F)
The mixture should last 2-3 weeks
- It will make CO2 as long as the liquid is light tan color and cloudy with few slow rising tiny bubbles forming a thin ring on top of the brew. When the mixture turns clear (lemonade like) the fermentation is spent and you should empty it, rinse the bottle thoroughly with the hottest water from the faucet and make another mix.
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Use the traps To make sure that all bedbugs are dead, it is best to keep the traps running for at least 90 days, which is the average length of time that bedbugs can last dormant without a meal. I recommend keeping two traps running after that period but using only half the yeast in the recipe to make the bottles last twice as long and use them as sentinels against re-infestation. with a Bedbug Shield. A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier that is put on the bed and that stops all and every bedbug bites at once. Along with the traps it will get rid of all bedbugs completely and right down to the last one. The Shield and the Traps leave no bedbug behind. The Shield can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wy-ry66A7U
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Now I just use dining room chairs as my bed. Lay some nice covers on the seats for my back. That’s how stressed I am with these creatures. What if I used CO2 traps & sit the chair legs on some sticky traps as well as using myself as bait. Will that work?
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Yes, it does work that way. You guessed the basic idea of how to set-up and make your own bedbug traps. CO2 traps placed on the floor and underneath the bed (dining room chairs in your case) with sticky tape under the chair legs (or a bedbug shield if you want to use your bed again).
- The CO2 traps will catch bedbugs on the move, going towards you and trying to climb up on the legs of the chairs.
- The sticky tape will keep bedbugs down on the floor while you sleep above, hopefully without a bite.
It is a simple method that will keep bedbugs from being able to feed and will break their life cycle. The traps will catch the bedbugs coming out of hiding when they get hungry. Since they do not have anything else but your blood to feed on, the bedbugs will keep trying and the sticky tapes will block their path while the traps lure them into glass pitfalls from which they cannot get out of. After a few feeding cycles, all bedbugs will have tried to feed and failed, all will be caught by the traps.
Sleeping on dining room chairs must be uncomfortable and deprive you of sleep. I suggest that you go back to your bed and use a bedbug shield to keep bedbugs from being able to reach and bite you. A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier made with a simple fitted sheet placed directly on the mattress and to which we fix (duct tape) a plastic skirt that goes down almost to the floor and goes all around the bed. Bedbugs cannot go or bite through the fabric fitted sheet and they cannot get through the hanging plastic skirt or get across it near the floor. All bedbugs are stopped and get stuck underneath the shield to slowly die of starvation while you sleep soundly above the shield and without a single bite. That’s the first thing that happens when you use a shield, all bedbug bites stop at once. No more bites. That’s what you are trying to do by using sticky tape under chair legs, keep bedbugs from being able to bite you. The bedbug shield does the same thing but to perfection allowing you to reclaim your bed and sleep on it as if there were no bedbugs.
- You will find an example of how to make your own bedbug shield at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wy-ry66A7U
- See the “Bedbug Free” page of the CO2 Bedbug Trap website at: http://julesnoise.com/2014/02/05/4/
- The recipe to make CO2 for the traps you saw in the Youtube video at: http://julesnoise.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/c02-bedbug-trap-__-recipe5.jpg
Give me some feedback once you have your set-up in place.
JulesNoise
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That is a very interesting article on bedbug infestation and what can be done to force Landlords to take care of the problem and eliminate those parasites from their rental dwellings. The long hand of the Law.
On the same article, under “Read More Bed Bugs News”, you mention “No more bites|The CO2 Bedbug Trap” and it is the solution to the bedbug problem. It is meant for the students, a way to protect them from bedbugs, no matter if a dwelling is infested or not. This proposed solution talks about a personal shield against bedbugs, something that stops all bedbug bites at once, keeping them from feeding of the blood of students.
It is something that every student can do for himself without waiting for someone else to take care of the problem for them and do it wrong since pesticide techniques will get you re-infested again, creating the problems you are dealing with for the students and lawsuits for Landlords. Nobody wins with guaranteed to fail pesticides. (Bedbugs are resistant to pesticides and surviving bedbugs are chased out of infested dwellings to be picked up by innocent passerby who bring them home and start another infestation somewhere else. If you want to sue the real cause of the actual bedbug epidemic, sue the pesticide companies that cannot and will not eradicate the bedbug and cause them to spread out in the population. It might be good for business, very lucrative in fact, but it is hell for those who get bedbug infested).
A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier that stop all bedbugs from being able to feed. It is made with simple means that every student can afford and do by himself. It is total protection against bedbugs, no matter if you live in a bedbug-prone area or not. It is especially efficient in close living quarters where everybody can protect themselves with a bedbug shield on their beds and CO2 bedbug traps on the floor. The Shield and the traps eliminate all and every bedbug right down to the last one. It has been proven to work for tens of thousands of people all around the world, grateful and bedbug-free. All of these people avoided the heavy and unpleasant bedbug settlements caused by bedbugs and have no more any cause to sue their Landlords. It is simple, get rid of bedbugs and you get rid of all the problems they cause.
I work with Landlords and paralegals to bring bedbug-free protection for those who seek a place to live without the painful and intensely itchy bed bug bites, bodily injury, pain and suffering, mental anguish, and economic loss.
The bedbug shield and the bedbug traps are free and available for anyone who wish to make their own. The costs of the shield and traps are minimal, with only local materials such as sugar, yeast, plastic and a few household items needed to make a shield and the traps. Nobody makes any money from bedbug traps. We only want to tell everybody how to eliminate bedbugs for good without taking any advantage of the people who have enough to suffer bedbugs without being customers to an Industry that will never solve the bedbug problem.
Please, have a good look at the bedbug shield and bedbug traps at http://julesnoise.com/ , preventing and eliminating bedbugs. Once you will be satisfied with the validity of the bedbug shield and bedbug traps, give the link to the students so that they can be free of the bedbug and that Landlords can make bedbug-proof housings.
With all my respect
JulesNoise
Any suggestions on what to do with a pet (dog) while the traps are working?
@__Roger Jensen__There is nothing special to do with a pet dog. Furry animals have a natural protection against bedbugs as their thin flat body cannot walk through hair and their stylet fascule (the dart they use to suck blood) is not long enough to reach the skin with a thick fur coat. Bedbugs bite only on bare skin and it is why bedbugs can only bite humans. The worst a pet dog will do is to sniff and disturb the trap, maybe knock it down but since bedbug traps are placed on the floor and behind each leg of the bed they are usually safe enough to stay up and working just fine. If you still have problems with your pet dog, simply close the bedboom door to keep the pet dog out.
My bed (a Sleep Revolution Getaway Deluxe) just arrived; and fortunately the mattress (which I encased in a protector) came with a plastic bag, which will double as a slippery shield. If even ONE bug managed to survive in my bedroom, at 80 degrees and no one sleeping there for 3 months (improbable though it may be), it’ll be hard-pressed to climb past the Scotch tape on the legs of the bed and the plastic bag to get to me. The only things that are exposed are the twice-washed, bug-stained mattress topper (which I intend to replace), and 2 pillows, also encased in bug-proof covers.
I found shipping tape thin enough to stick to the popcorn ceiling and leave as little space between itself and the ceiling. It surrounds the entire perimeter of my bed and then some. Unless the bug’s legs can miraculously grip the plastic, or hitchhike on my sock, it’ll have to settle for my CO2 trap.
Just a thought: Does a female bedbug only have to have sex ONCE to keep laying eggs until she starves or dies (whichever comes first)?
Great bed. I looked at it and that type of metal legs bed is so easy to protect with only the nearly invisible scoth tape barriers on the legs to keep bedbugs from being unable to climb up on them. Talcum (or baby powder could also give you an additional guarantee that those scotch tape barriers are in fact too slippery for bedbugs (or any other crawling insect)to be able to hang and hook into. And the mattress is great too. A 4 inch foam mattress insice a fabric encasement, offering very few places to hide and easily inspected if need be. The only other precaution is to make sure the bed sheets do not touch the walls or any other piece of furniture. A spacer on the floor and against the baseboard of the wall will give you the space you need and will keep the bed from being pushed back and in contact with the walls
Remove your pillow encasements and run them in a dryer at the highest heat setting for 20 minutes, that will kill all and any possible bedbug and egg in them and you can use your pillows with the normal fabric pillow cases that are much more comfortable than plastic or any other material they use to entomb improbable bedbugs. Pillows are one of the worst places bedbugs can go to hide since they get squished when we use the pillows.
Bug-stained mattress toppers can be replaced without throwing away the foam mattress inside. Bedbugs do not chew or dig and do not go deep inside mattresses unless there is a cut or an opening, and that can also be easily fixed. You can use a replacement topper or you can make your own with two regular fabric contour sheets taped and sealed together to make your own homemade mattress encasement.
Female bedbugs are permanently inseminated, meaning that even if they go away, they can still lay eggs without the males (sperm is kept in a separate pouch in their abdomen), but only if they can bite, without blood female bedbugs cannot incubate eggs. That explains why if you pick up a single bedbug (an adult female of course), that bedbug can and will lay eggs if it can bite. No blood to feed on means no eggs.
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