Bedbug Barriers

Look at those filament hooks at the end of the bedbug’s legs. They are the secret on how to make bedbug barriers.

Bedbugs can climb on anything with asperities, wood, fabric and clothing are bedbug friendly. They have a hard time on smooth surfaces like porcelain or glass and also polished metal.

Bedbug Barriers are vertical surfaces too slippery for bedbugs to climb on.

Bedbugs lose their grip and fall to the floor where the Co2 Traps are waiting for them.

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Commercial bedbug barriers :

  • Mattress encasement

  • Will encase the bedbugs in the mattress and they will not be able to come out until you take it off. Must remain on the mattress for over a year.
  • _____ Does not take care of the bedbugs in the room.
  • _____ Does not take care of dormant bedbugs.
  • _____ Bedbugs not trapped inside the mattress encasement are free to come and go  at will and will keep biting you.

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  • Bed Covers

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  • Climb Up Interceptors

  • Useful to catch bedbugs on the floor trying to get on the bed
  • _____ Does not take care of the bedbugs in the bed.
  • _____ Does not take care of dormant bedbugs.

_____ Easily replaced by more discrete homemade interceptors for  small fraction of their over-priced box of 12 for 79.99$ .

I know, they offer them at 39.94$ on Amazon  and have the gall to say that we are saving 40$ but this is total commercial crap. It is a few pennies’worth of molded plastic with masking tape on the outside and talcum powder in the inside.

Lucky that in this picture  from the manufacturer, the leg of the bed has a hard steel caster on which bedbugs cannot climb but it would be totally different with a bed with wooden legs. Bedbugs in the center well of the ClimbUp would all have climbed up the leg of the bed and turned into a bedbug highway.

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  • Plastic bags of all kinds to store or carry luggage
  • Useful to protect a few items from bedbugs.
  • _____ Only a temporary solution that does not take care of bedbugs.
  • _____ A waste of money, can easily be replaced by any plastic bag.

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Homemade  bedbug barriers:

Interceptors

  • Interceptors are bedbug barriers to prevent possible future infestations.
  • You can use any plastic food storage container to set the bed feet into.  Sprinkle talcum powder in each container to stop climbing.  If your headboard or foot board have feet, interceptors will need to be installed on them.  To further discourage climbing, ½ inch or larger clear packing tape should be wrapped around the bed, headboard, and foot board legs.  Wrap the tape just above the area where the talcum powder is present in the interceptor.  It is very difficult for bed bugs to grasp onto slick tape and becomes impossible when the tape is also brushed with talc.
  • Double side tape or duct tape folded over lengthwise

  • Vaseline on the legs of the bed instead of duct tape ___ (Bedbugs cannot crawl in it and they turn away)
  • Clear 1/2″ tape or larger-___ (Too smooth for bedbugs to hook in and climb vertically on the  shiny side)

Common 1/2″ or 3/4″ scotch tape on top of  painter’s tape to protect the paint.

  • (Adult bedbugs are less than 1/4″ and  the shiny side of common clear scotch tape is too smooth for bedbugs to hook into and be able to climb up. )

Very useful to make barriers or interceptors on the legs of the bed and around the base of the furniture.

Also used to make barriers around the room where you want to keep bedbugs from going.

around light switches, thermostats and electrical outlets

on the ceiling

with or without painter’s tape underneath it to remove it easily later

Talcum powder ___ (makes any smooth surface too slippery for bedbugs to climb on)

Painter’s Plastic  *** A major component to stop and eliminate the bedbugs in the bed

  • Used over any item (couch, recliner, double beds, upholstered furniture…etc) to stop bedbug bites
  • Used to encase articles in plastic and kill bedbugs with dry ice.

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BED BUG BARRIERS

Part of the bedbug problem comes from the fact that bedbugs are free to come and go at will.  Barriers are needed to keep the bedbug from going places where we do not want them to go such as in the furniture, in our belongings, on the walls to get into trims, light switches, thermostats, picture frames or anything they can hide in, on the ceiling to drop off on the bed,etc.

The objective is to keep bed bugs on the floor with easy access to the traps for their last meal.

Another objective is to be discreet is waging the battle. Diatomaceous Earth (DE) is very messy, slow to kill, and bed bugs will avoid piles of it.

At all times, the cost and effectiveness is at the top of the list.

Bedbugs are classified as crawlers but they are not, bedbugs are climbers with hooks at the end of their legs to give them a grip. They find it very easy to climb on wood, fabric, clothes, anything with asperities that they can hang from. Smooth surfaces are more difficult and they slip and fall off more often on them. Glass, porcelain, polished metal, smooth and shiny plastics are natural bedbug barriers because bedbugs cannot hook into them or only with difficulties. The smoother the surface is, the more difficult it is for the bedbug to hang to it.

SCOTCH TAPE + TALCUM POWDER

Scotch tape btushed with talcum powder makes the best bedbug barriers.  The tape is so slick that bedbugs can only climb up on it at a 90 angle with a great deal of work, losing their grip and falling off them most of the time. At 180 degree nobedbug can hang on. Use a strip of scotch tape all along the perimeter of the ceiling to prevent their access to your bed by dropping. The top shiny side is so smooth bed bugs cannot grip especially with the added benefit of gravity. Painter’s tape applied first to the ceiling will protect the paint.  Place the Scotch tape on the painters tape.  The strip does not have to be any wider than one-half inch.

Scotch tape will also stop bedbugs from going up the wall from the floor. A strip of Scotch tape placed on the wall above the baseboard of the walls and over heaters will keep any bedbug from climbing any further up because bedbugs are not be able to climb on it or only with great difficulties.  To completely cover the possibility of the bugs climbing the wall,  brush talcum powder to the shiny side of the tape once it is in place., Bedbugs can’t cross that.

Scotch Tape and clear packaging tape, dusted with talcum powder can be applied to endless items in your entire home.

  • Place strips of scotch tape on the legs of furniture, such as chairs, tables, stands, etc.
  • Wrap packaging tape dusted with talcum powder around bed legs, with or without interceptors.
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Sunday 2012.07.29

 

What a concept, “normal” life.

It took me a while to come back and from my obsession with bedbugs, I might never get over it. If I can put things back in place, bed against the wall as before and everything else it is because I know I do not have bedbugs and I can catch them if they ever come back.

I do not fear the bedbug anymore and never will. I can defeat the undefeatable bedbug at will and there is not a single situation, even long distance where I will not win. Without the nightmare it brings, the bedbug is just an insect, a mere annoyance not worth all the problems it causes.

The bedbug scare is blown out of proportion is by those who profit from it and that’s what we are stuck with, misinformation for the sake of a business.. If you get rid of the scare, both the bedbug and the poison pusher lose their power. The old saying, “… don’t let the bedbug bite” regains all its meaning and we can come back to normal life knowing that no insect can survive if we do not feed them.

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Part of the bedbug problem comes from the fact that bedbugs are free to come and go at will. There are no bedbug barriers not even poison which is used for prevention and causes bedbug adaptation and resistance, the pesticide escalation.

Barriers are needed to keep the bedbug from going places where we do not want them to go, in the furniture, in our belongings, on the walls to get into trims, light switches, thermostats, picture frames or anything they can hide into, on the ceiling to drop off on the bed…etc.

Bedbugs are classified as crawlers but they are not, bedbugs are climbers with hooks at the end of their legs to give them a grip. They find it very easy to climb on wood, fabric, clothes, anything with asperities that they can hang from. Smooth surfaces are more difficult and they slip and fall off more often on them. Glass, porcelain, polished metal, smooth and shiny plastics are natural bedbug barriers because bedbugs cannot hook into them or only with difficulties. The smoother the surface is, the more difficult it is for the bedbug to hang to it.

Scotch tape makes the best bedbug barriers. Their top shiny side is so smooth and slick that bedbugs can only climb up on it at a 90 angle with a great deal of work, losing their grip and falling off them most of the time. At 180 degree no bedbug can hang on. So we use a strip of scotch tape all along the perimeter of the ceiling to stop all possible bedbug traffic and that make sense. It is also true to stop bedbugs from going up the wall from the floor. A strip of Scotch tape above the baseboard of the walls and over heaters will keep any bedbug from climbing any further up because bedbugs are not be able to climb on it or only with great difficulties.

Damn! We were so close to have barriers that we could use to control where bedbugs go and be plagued by a doubt that some bedbugs can go through it! A barrier is good only if none of them can do it. And it better be a 100% guarantee. 

Enters Talcum powder.

Brush the surface of the Scotch tape with talcum powder and bedbugs will lose whatever grip they had on the Scotch tape. The strip of tape becomes impossible to cross. It is the perfect bedbug barrier that can be fitted to our needs at extreme low cost.

Can be used on bed legs to make interceptors, keeping a bedbug on the floor from climbing up to the bed. Underneath furniture to keep bedbugs from getting into it.

It does not have to be larger than ½” since adult bedbugs are less than ¼”. Amazing, very discrete barriers, hardly noticeable yet 100% guaranteed to stop all foraging bedbugs and make them fall down to the floor where we want them. Off the ceiling, off the walls and off the furniture. Force bedbugs down to the floor where the traps are and you will catch them all.

Bedbugs in baseboards and below the strip of Scotch tape are unable to go up the wall and will go towards the bed when they will come out to feed where traps are waiting for them

Barriers keeps the bedbugs from going anywhere but towards the traps. We got them surrounded and control their circulation.

Want to get rid of the bedbug, do not let them go wherever they want and stop feeding them. They will be eager to go into the traps

What do you know, we can outsmart bedbugs! 

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9 thoughts on “Bedbug Barriers

  1. First of all thank you for excellent information. I’m thinking of making CO2 bedbug trap,but having 2.5 years old in the house would that bedbug trap be dangerous? Do you know how much CO2 trap generates? Is it safe for children to be around?

    Would really appreciate your reply.

    Thanks

    • @__ Cjkumar__ The CO2 bedbug trap is totally and absolutely safe to use. It mimics the respiration of a small animal of the size of a little hamster. Since bedbugs evolved on bats, it does not need much to attract bedbugs. A 2 liter CO2 generator produces around 20 liters of CO2 a day at full capacity compared to an adult that produces 350-450 liters of CO2 a day, It would take at least 20 traps to make the equivalent of the respiration of an adult or 5 traps to be the equivalent of a toddler. You can easily put a few toddlers, as well as adults, together in the same room and never, ever have any discomfort from their respiration. You would need a lot of traps, probably cover the whole floor with them before you could even have short breath.
      That was important to me as I made the trap to eliminate not only bedbugs but also any harmful effect from poison. The only danger, if it could be called a danger, would be that they could knock them over and spill the sweet liquid inside and make them sticky. Even that can easily be avoided by putting the bottles out of the way and use straws to bring the CO2 into little glasses carefully placed behind the legs and under the bed.
      But more important than the CO2 generators is the plastic bedbug shield that should cover the beds. A simple sheet of plastic over the mattress with its sides hanging down and cut a toe space (1 inch) above the floor will keep all and any bedbug from being able to reach and bite you or your child. A bedbug shield stops all bites at once and you can sleep soundly in the bed without a bite. Setting up the plastic so that it does not produce any choking hazard will make the place as safe as if there were no plastic at all. A thick fabric bed sheet (wool) or comforter over the plastic but under the contour sheet to hold it in place will make the bed really comfortable and keep it from being sweaty. Bedbugs die of starvation under the plastic or suffocate in the little CO2 that is in the glasses.
      Bedbugs that cannot bite do not molt and do not lay eggs, without food, like any other creature, the bedbug dies. A plastic shield over the bed and CO2 generators on the floor eliminate all bedbugs while you sleep soundly without a bite. All you need to eliminate bedbugs even faster are bedbug barriers on the furniture and on the walls (Scotch tape brushed with talcum powder, you probably still have some of that since it is also called baby powder). Then, you can forget bedbugs and go back to normal life, maintaining the traps once in a while. Fifty to a hundred times less expensive than poison and absolutely no harm to yourself and your child.
      The CO2 bedbug trap does not spread bedbugs or leave any bedbug behind. Once you will know how to make traps, you will be free of bedbugs forever.
      Best regards
      Julien

  2. well my son is 1 year old and i spotted some sort of bites. when i have been to the doctor he couldn’t tell me so i can only assume by pictures….i did the trap but i have not done yet the barriers (need the materials) so hopefully i’ll get them tomorrow and start stopping them as well as planning to get some steamer to make sure his bed is bedbugs free before i cover it with plastic bags.

    but i only wanted to thank you for your amazing hard work…it saved me at least seven heart attacks (after you read all the trouble they bring to your life), so just wantted to say keep up this great and valuable work.

  3. wow… thanks for all your insight.Iam a stay at home dad and when i found out i had a problem i thought no big deal i can take care of this since i used to build houses for a living.then i found out the everything i tried (spot treatment with chems and foggers)i could not get rid of them.then i found this info and wanted to cry thanks for alll your knowledge on this subject.and may god bless you!

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