CO2

Dry Ice

Bedbugs always find us by following our CO2.

They can see our heat from a distance and in line of sight, to find the way to reach us they follow our breathing.

 

CO2 to attract bedbugs

  • Trails of CO2 on the floor from normal human breathing
  • Trails of CO2 on the floor from the CO2 bedbug traps

CO2 to wake up dormant bedbugs

  • Dormant bedbugs are nearly impossible to find.
  • The only thing that will wake up a dormant bedbug is the proximity of heat and CO2. When a human gets close to a dormant bedbug, it becomes alert and follow its movements until it stops to rest or to sleep.

CO2 to kill bedbugs

  •  [How to kill bedbugs with dry ice]

Use dry ice in small quantities to kill bedbugs in anything you want and it is totally safe for humans. You can kill bedbugs in

  • pillows,
  • comforter,
  • clothes,
  • furniture,
  • electronics,
  • bags stored with bedbugs in them,

Most anything can be 100% free of bedbugs in 24 hours using CO2 in a plastic bag and the right amount of dry ice.

  • That’s right, you can kill bedbugs with dry ice in a plastic bag.

Try with one item to see and learn how it works.

  • Choose something that you think might have bedbugs in it and that you want to get rid of them now! May I suggest your  mattress. It already has an encasement so we can use that as a bag. With clear 2″ wrapping tape seal every leak and make it airtight.
  • Go to the store and get one pound of dry ice.
  • Open the mattress encasement and put the dry ice inside and close it up again. Set it up against the wall and take a needle to make 20-30 tiny holes at the top, too small for a bedbug to get out but will let air out.

What will happen in the next 8-10  hours, the dry ice will slowly “melt” and give off its CO2. Since CO2 is heavier than air, it will accumulate at the bottom of the plastic encasement and push the air out through the needle holes. The inside of the bag (encasement) will be completely filled with CO2 and there will be no air left to breathe. Bedbugs will suffocate and die. That’s right, bedbugs have to breathe and if you cut off their oxygen, just like any other creature of this planet, when they can’t breathe,  they die, d-e-a-d, dead!

  • Count 24 hours after all the dry ice has “melted” and then you can open and remove the encasement. Brush off the dead bedbugs and other residues over a painter’s plastic and clean seams and stains with soap and water or any household cleaner.

Your son’s mattress will not have a single bedbug left in it. Almost as good as new.

If you like what you did, do the same thing with the box spring and it will be also free of bedbugs.

  • If you want to stop there, you can put both the box spring and the mattress on the plastic over the frame.
  • You can continue with the bed frame, wrapping everything in plastic and sealing it air tight, with dry ice in it kills all the bedbugs in the frame and headboard.
  • When all the bedbugs are dead and you re-assemble it put some spacers between the bed and the floor. We will talk with your wife about what is best to use.

We can do the same thing, of course with the large twin bed, with night tables and dressers (they might not need it) but you can do it mostly for all your articles stored away in plastic bag.

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Test it with one article to see how it works.

Any other bedbug elsewhere will either be dried-up by DE or captured by the traps.

note: when you will brush off the dead bedbugs, put them in a ziploc bag, write the date and how you killed them. Take a picture and send it to me.

Here are some fun dry ice experiments:

2 thoughts on “CO2

    • Nycman,
      No, the trap does not kill the eggs. The trap uses hunger to catch bedbugs. As soon as they hatch, tiny 1 mm near transparent bedbugs must absolutely go for a blood meal and if they don’t or are stopped to do it (by a bedbug shield), these first stage instar nymphs die within a week or so from lack of nutrition. As they get older, their resistance increase and adult bedbugs can last 60-90 days (only if they can go dormant in an inoccupied room, any human presence wakes them up. Active bedbugs last only a few weeks without feeding)
      This is only interesting information, as all stages of bedbugs end up into traps when they try to feed, the eggs are allowed to hatch and the hatchlings end up in traps like all the other bedbugs.

      But the best thing is to keep bedbugs from being able to lay eggs. Bedbugs need blood to incubate eggs and if you keep them from feeding, they cannot lay eggs. How do you keep bedbugs from feeding? With a shield over the bed. It stops all bedbug bites at once and starves them to death.

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