Alicia Boda
How long does a bottle/s of homemade co2 bedbug traps last? Or how often should I refill/make homemade bedbug trap containers?
To make CO2, you need:
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1 envelope (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.
The full recipe is at: http://julesnoise.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/c02-bedbug-trap-__-recipe5.jpg
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
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
New comment on your video:
Easiest and Fastest Bedbug Trap ever
General19791
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?
@__ General19791
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
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
