9 thoughts on “Bedbug Killers”

1. Hi, thanks so much for your time. if i am correct on your co2 directions, you use only one half teaspoon of yeast per 2 liter and two cups sugar? I am counting aproximitaly one bubble per minute when I place the tubing into a glass of water. Is that the desired rate or amount of co2 desired for ultimate bug trap?

   • theres somthing living in my hair and bedroom
     i dobt know if they are fleas bed bugs
     or springtails
     its only me the bites are big lumps
     theyare going septck now
     when they are biting me i fwal a actual stunging
     were they are biting methe dokters or dermatogist are no help
     iv bout protector now to see if
     this will kill them
     i can feal little grains of sugar or salt when i squash them it jumps and these are tiny
     dots at the end of a sentance pleas can yoh give me any advice as im desprate now
     my mobile if you can cal me is
     07792712313

     • Anya,
       I read your comment with great interest. I got me doing research about the invisible “bug” that baffles everybody since this invisible bug has never been found yet. People stuck with this rare form of affliction are often told that it is all in their head and that they unvolontarily cause their own symptoms without ever knowing what causes it. Doctors and dermatologists are often called idiots because they cannot find the cause and prescribe lotions and potions to alleviate the symptomsbut without curing the cause. Temporary relief and the symptoms come back with a vengeance.

       There is no help on the internet either, most if not all comments are from people stuck with the problem and trying something, anything to get rid of this problem. Do not follow their example as it often end up using products or techniques that causes more damage when it is not self-mutilation. You do not know what you got, they do not know what you got and I do not know what you got.

       What I do know is how to kill insects, any insect. In the absence of identification, we can use a method that will kill any insect of any kind.

       You dot not have bedbugs, you would have seen them by now. Bedbugs are 1/4″ long and are as visible as apple seeds. Plus the fact that bedbugs do not go in hair and always leave us once their blood meal is completed. Fleas are the same, you can actually see them jumping around and we know right away they are fleas. You describe grains of sand and it would have to be a very small insect to do that. The thing is to produce big lumps , you would need many insects biting in the same area to make such lumps. It could be mites which are very common and also nery hard to see. It could be acarians which feed on dead skin and can produce rashes when there are a large number of them. It could be a variety of minuscule insects that also are nearly impossible to find because we do not see them. It could also be insect phobia, no offense meant as it is a normal conclusion faced with totally elusive mystery insects.

       It does not really matter to find out what they are, attemps to find out only end up in emotional distress and that is the feeling that it makes you insane. The problem are the insects, no matter if they are real or not. The only thing that matters is to eliminate them and eliminate the stress thet cause.

       There are proven things that will kill any insect. To eliminate any insect infestation of any kind, we must treat the person stuck with the insects and also treat the whole environment at the same time. Insects that will remain on your body, lice, scabbies, acarians, chiggers can be killed with a single application of permethrin which will kill any and all insects whatsoever that might be on your body. Permethrin is sold in drug stores and the application of the creamy lotion last 10-12 hours, and then you wash it off taking all the dead insects with it. Permethrin is sold under many names, the most kmown here in Canada being Kwellada. It is perfectly safe to use on our body as long as we do not over do it and use it repeatedly. It does not matter what type of insect it is, 5% permethrin will and does kill any insect.

       But giving yourself a permethrin treatment will not solve the problem if you re-infest yourself as soon as the permethrin treatment is done. We must absolutely treat the whole environment. This involve a major house clean-up, concentrated in the areas you suspect might have those invisible bugs. Your weapons will be a vacuum cleaner, rubbing alcohol and dry ice.

       A vacuum cleaner will pick up most of the insects around but mot all of them, it will only make your life easier when you will then “paint” the whole place with 91% rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol will kill any insect on contact. It is not a pesticide, it only dries up insects and they die within minutes, most of the time even less. I have a gun using alcohol in a spray that kills flies while they are still airborne. I spray them in flight and they fall to the ground. I spray them a second time once on the floor and watch them die I pick them up deadwith a piece of tissue and throw them away. That spray gun works on fruit flies, bedbugs, ants. spiders, mosquitoes… and you name them. No insect has ever came alive once I shoot them. Rubbing alcohol is an excellent defense against any bug of any kind. We can use alcohol on ourselves if we want to. It is not poisonous and it desinfects anything, Using alcohol leaves a fresh scent of cleanliness. The only problem with alcohol is that it might also dry up your skin and it is better to apply hand and body lotion once you are done using alcohol. Other than that, alcohol is perfectly safe as long as you do not drink it. So, get a lot of rubbing alcohol, dip a paint brush in it and cover all the corners, cracks and interstices to fill those with a fine line of alcohol that will kill anything inside. Flat surfaces can be wiped with a sponge with alcohol in it.

       Start in the bathroom to give you a space free of insects and from which you will cover the rest of the place. Be thourough and do not leave a single place untreated. Concentrate on places you can touch, it would be a shame to clear yourself of any bug only to get re-infested by simply touching something that still has invisible bugs on it. How long can insects live outside the body? It depends on the type of insects, but in general, insects that live on our body are fragile to humidity and cannot live more than 24-72 hours outside. Avoid touching anything that you previosly touched and might have insects on it, for 1-3 days.

       A vacuum to pick up as many bugs as you can. Remove the bag immediately once you are done and seal it ib a plastic bag. Insects can be killed by soaking the bag in alcohol, run though the dryer at the highest temperature or frozen solid with dry ice.

       Heat kills insects and you can kill them using steam, but it has to be boiling heat and that is not easy to get, and it can also cuse damage to the place and your belongings.

       Cold also kills any insect, whatever cannot be treated with alcokol can be put in a sturdy plastic bag or a sealed box, and if you put dry ice in the bag, it will bring the temperature down to minus 78°F which is twice than what it takes to kill any insect. If we cannot cook them with heat or dry them with alcohol, we can sub-freeze them to death. It is going to get very cold, extremely cold where insects are and they will die.

       And that’s how I kill anything. Permethrin to kill insects on my body, even in my hair or sensitive ares. Vacuum and alcohol to kill any insect that might be in my environment. And dry ice to kill insects that might be in my belongings.

       I still do not know what you got, and it would be a waste of time to try to find out, although it can be done. The idea is to kill any insect that attack us and this method kills them all. Once you your DIY treatment is over, if the symptoms persist, then we can eliminate insects as the cause of those lumps and rashes.

       What do you think? Would you be willing to try this and once you have proven it works, I wish to put this method on the internet and help anybody else that might be stuck with these invisible “bugs”.

       Please stay in contact and we will find a way to get you rid of that plague, I only wish to help.
       JulesNoise

2. Hi Jules,

   Terrified I will introduce these into my elderly parents home…

   I will be visiting them in about 3 weeks, a 9 hour drive from me in the midwest. Their home is exceptionally cluttered but never had bb.

   I drive there and usually load my car with my small suitcase of cloths, my pillows, throw shoes in the car, bankers cardboard boxes of some food and water bottles.

   If I bring bb to them, they are too far for me to do your wonderful remedies…. and would so freak them out anyway… and my family would excommunicate me for it.

   You are a god-send for all this info. I found your info after spending about $200 on intercepters, DE, “non-toxic” sprays (neem oil spray, sodium laurel sulfate spray), toxic sprays (bifrithin), passive detectors… none worked.

   I brought back bb 3 weeks ago when I returned from being in the UK countryside (at a 4 star hotel…). I had bites all over my face, ears, neck and when I had time in the Atlanta airport, began to google bb…becoming more and more upset with what I saw in the mirror on my face, the patterns– I had left my suitcases laying on the floor, everything spread out in the hotel room… had blood spots now I remembered on the sheets and no alarms when off in my head then, thought I had scratched myself in my sleep…

   and though very careful coming home (immediately ordering the sprays and others), letting suitcases spread out in hot car in the sun multiple days (taking out my electronics and makeup), running anything I could think of through my hot dryer… they still managed to start biting me about 5 days after… 3 bites here, then another few days, 3 bites in a row there… the sprays came and I vacuumed and vacuumed and vacuumed, kept running all bedding nearly daily through the hot dryer/wash, more sprays everywhere, every baseboard, corner, over and over in and around my bed,— and still bites.

   no bb in the bedframe interceptors with DE– you said they stay in the bed, makes sense. Kept getting bit.

   So I went to Target and Lowes and the grocery store for dry ice for your cheap supplies and made your CO2 dry ice in the taped plastic all over my bed (I cut it open tomorrow) and made the CO2 yeast/sugar traps.

   So questions— how to keep from taking any at all to my folks in 3 weeks when I go. I can spray my suitcase and boxes with the neem oil spray?

   And, in your info for the CO2 traps, you show both using 2L bottles to one glass trap-cup– and 4 500ML bottles with straws to one glass trap-cup—- I used one 500ML bottle to one glass trap-bowl dusted with talc— and put one of these near each couch leg, and one near each bed leg .

   Do I need to point all 4 500ML (or one 2L bottle) straws into one glass trap– or is there enough CO2 coming out of the one 500ML into one glass-trap to work ok?

   thank you, thank you so much for all this work, so grateful!!

   Katie Eileen

   • Two more questions please Jules?

     1. After you set up the bed shield with the contour sheet and vertical plastic skirt taped to it– how do you make up the bed with the bedding– do you tuck fitted and flat sheets and blankets still around the mattress– effectively tucking in some of the skirt plastic with them?

     2. with the sleeping bag set up on the plastic with the rectangle of straws taped to the plastic edges–
     a. do flip the plastic over with the taped straws under the plastic sheet (propping up the plastic a bit) or do you leave the straws on top of the plastic sheet–
     b. and you say put the straws taped about 1/2 inch along the edge of the plastic sheet, but your photos show they are in a number of inches from the edge?

     thank you thank you!

     • Hi Katie Eileen

       First an explanation why I did not answer in the last two weeks. I’ve been under a massive virus attack and my computer is freezing, I’ve been trying to clean them out but they are re-installed as soon as I get rid of a few ones, I’m getting real frustrated. I will take care of this somehow but today my website works but nothing else. I’m glad you contacted me on WordPress and I have your email adress, I will keep it strictly private but at least I can answer you.

       You have two and half weeks and it can be done. I will answer your question one by one and do first things first. The very first thing to do is to stop bedbugs from being able to bite you. In the coming two weeks, your bites will have time to heal and there might not be a trace or very little left by the time you will be visiting your parents.

       That is the key to get rid of all bedbugs right down to the last one because you will block them all and all bites will stop at once. You know about the dry ice method to kill bedbugs. Dry ice will kill bedbugs inside the taped plastic bag, but it will not stop them from be able to come back. As soon as you will cut it open tomorrow, we must immediatly put the bedbug shield on the bed.

       You need a contour sheet, a long 2 feet wide by 25 feet long sheet of plastic. The plastic goes around the mattress and must hang down vertically like a skirt almost all the way down to the floor and as straight as possible about one inch above the floor. Once the plastic is adjusted and fixed to the mattress, the contour sheet goes over the mattress and the contour sheet must be taped to the hanging plastic with preferably duct tape that clings well to both fabric and plastic. The duct tape must seal the contour sheet to the plastic skirt.

       Bedbugs cannot dig or chew and cannot go through the contour sheet. The contour sheet is an impenetrable barrier that will stop all bedbugs, all of them. The plastic skirt is just as impenetrable as the contour sheet and will keep bedbugs from being able to go sideways and get a grip on the bedding which should hang down normally just like on any bed. The reason why the plastic hangs lower than the sheets is to keep bedbugs unable to reach it and climb on them. Bedbugs have a hard time on vertical plastic, they always lose their grip and fall down to the floor. Once on the floor, right next to the CO2 bedbug traps, they will be lured into the small glass pitfalls behind every leg of the bed. Those pitfalls are placed behind the legs to protect them from being knocked down and spill bedbugs and also the liquid.

       You might have already seen it but, this is how we make a bedbug shield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wy-ry66A7U&list=UUDzXASfh_Vvuu7EvNXOrngQ. This is the first thing to do, to stop all and every bedbug bite at once. Sleeping on the shield will protect you, suffocating and starving bedbugs to death while you sleep soundly without a bite.

       Once the shield is in place, you will have all the time you need to make bedbug traps. There are many ways to make bedbug traps. Using 2L bottles works just as fine a using four 500 ml bottles or any other container that is convenient for you. It is best to make a 2L mixture and divide it into four smaller bottles, one behind each leg of the bed. You can make as many traps as you feel like it, you cannot have too many traps. They are not expensive, about one dollar for four smaller traps. The shield is now protecting you and now the traps will start catching bedbugs. Bedbugs are drawn to the bed, lured by your sleep and by the CO2 given off by the traps. The shield will stop any bedbug before it can bite and the traps will make them fall into small glass pitfalls from which they cannot get of (One ounce shot glasses make the best pitfalls). Every day there will be less and less bedbugs until there are none left. It is the CO2 in the glass pitfalls that kill bedbugs by suffocating them. It is the complete lack of food (our blood) that starves bedbugs to death.

       Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot molt and grow. Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot lay eggs. Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot survive.

       Once the shield is in place and protecting you, and once the traps are at work luring and catching bedbugs, take all the worthless crap that they sold you and discard everything. These products only spread bedbugs and it make it even more difficult to get rid of them. The shield and the traps do exactly the opposite of all these products. Instead af making them hide deeper and further away from where we can most easily catch them, bedbugs hide from all the intense activity. When you slow down because you can’t take it no more, bedbugs come back and start to bite you again as you have experienced yourself. Let them come out of hiding all by themselves and stop chasing bedbugs, you will be relieved and who cares about bedbugs that cannot bite you.

       The last thing to do will be to take care of yourself. There are good home remedies that will heal the awful bites you had and you will be ready to go see your parents and enjoy it.

       As for bedbugs, get ready to cook your car before you leave. A temperature of 50°C or 120°F for two hours in a heated garage will kill all the bedbugs that you do not want to bring with you. You will do that only once because next time you will not have any bedbugs. You will never have bedbugs again. Thousands of people have done this many times, bedbug free just like you will.

       Follow this and contact me again if you need any further explanation or if you want to to simply talk about your results.
       Terrified no more.

       I’m Julien and I wish you well. You will be okay.

     • 1. I tuck the corners of the flat sheet underneath the elastic of the contour sheet so the corners do not touch the floor. You can tuck the sheets anyway you want except that the plastic skirt must remain straight and hanging down vertically.
       2.The sleeping bagis one og the easiest shield to make. All you need is the plastic flat on the floor with the edges of the plastic raised all around it. It is the raised edge of the plastic that bedbugs cannot climb on. Bedbugscrawl under the plastic instead and you often find squished bedbugs in the morning while you did not get a bite. I use plastic straws because they are easy to use to raise the edge while they can be found most anywhere and are dirt cheap at 150 straws fo a dollar.
       b” Yes, there is a mistake on my video, the straw should be double-sided taped 1/2 inch from the edge of the plastic.

3. Hi Julien,

   I’m so sorry about your computer virus– bugs everywhere sometimes it seems….

   You are so kind to take the time to answer people back with the questions, to answer me back, I really appreciate that so much.

   Yes, I have to start over. I removed the CO2 wrapped bed and was so careful washing and hot dryering everything in order before making the bed back up, put one 500 ML bottle of yeast mixture (which I can still hear bubbling but none of the 9 dishes I put out around have caught anything– the bugs are still in the bed) with glass trap w/paper towel skirt, inside glass brushed with talc behind each bed leg with the 500 ml bottle– those bed legs sits inside a climb-up intercepter each brushed with talc on the inside ring– and put scotch tape around each bed leg and brushed that all around with talc. Had one peaceful night and they were back… unbelievable how aggressive they are.

   Then I realized I should have done the shield first. I have an odd 3-futon/wool stacked on slatted bed frame bed and could not figure out how to do the shield but I will take care of that by tomorrow and start again. I saw your bunk bed and baby crib idea about plastic over the frame slats first and then can do the vertical plastic from upper most 2″ thick futon piece I think.

   Otherwise I might have to drape the plastic completely over everything and sleep on hot plastic for a little while.

   I think my bedding will slide up off the vertical plastic/taped contour sheet thing and stay bunched up in the middle of the bed, there won’t be anything to catch the bedding on/tuck it under once I tape around the contour sheet/vertical plastic but if no bites can stand that for a couple weeks and do the CO2 bag around the bed again when I get home from the parents.

   A day before I head out, I will put my boxes, clothes, suitcase in the car to cook, glad its summer to do that!

   The sleeping bag plastic– after taping the straws all around 1/2 inch in, do you flip the whole plastic over then so the straws are just under the plastic edges making a hill with the straws underneath? (and then the sleeping bag goes on top).

   thank you so much again for your time– like others who have written you, its so much time consuming and doing things over and over with the frustration of not defeating the bugs ever– you have given amazing hope to me that i wont have to isolate myself from my family and others, and hope that some peace also will come back in my life from these bugs.

   a thousand blessings to you

   Katie Eileen

   • Hi Katie Eilen

     I told you I would get it, my computer is purring like a kitten now. It was about time too, it was really difficult to answer when nothing is working. You spent 200$ before finding how to get rid of them and I also spent 200$ to get rid of virtual bugs.

     Kindness Katie? I’ve learned that from people before me and it makes me feel good.

     You did not start all over again. Sometimes we have to try everything we can before we find the right way. You did not lose as you will be rid of bedbugs forever, and that by itself is worth it. I had people getting rid of bedbugs and being bedbug free only to find down the line that they had a second infestation. My best example is Andre from Switzerland, a tourist guide highly subject to bedbug infestation. At first he had over 4000 bedbugs and his wife was desperate. With only four traps and two shields, one for their two children and one for themselves, he caught over 1000 bedbugs with his traps while more than 3000 died of starvation under the shields. He kept his shields on after the infestation. Months later after a long time without any bites and any bedbugs, he found seven very small bedbugs in his traps but could not figure out where these tiny bedbugs came from because he never had a bedbug before and after that. One day, he removed his shield to clean up and found a dead adult bedbug in his own bed. That is the bedbug he brought home after all that time that probably succeede in getting a bite and laid seven eggs. The nymphs went for a blood meal and ended up in the trap instead while the adult got under the shield and remained stuck there without any chance of getting a second bite and eventually died of starvation. He never even told me about it until the holidays where he sent me a delicacy all the way from Geneva, and then he told me. He never had another bedbug after that. A second infestation with a shield on never got nowhere and he was not even aware of it when it happened. The bedbug shield with the traps is the best.

     As I said in our previous exchange, you must start with the shield first. You might not find any bedbugs in your traps if you have only a light infestation, since in the beginning, before the colony matures, bedbugs always stay in the bed, under the shield. You went all out although I suspect that in a low flat dish, bedbugs might be able to get out and escape. Use small glasses instead, one ounce shot glasses are the best and also take much less space under the bed. You have traps, interceptors, bedbug barriers (scotch tape brushed with talcum powder).

     One peaceful night and they were back. Intense activity will keep bedbugs away for a short while but as soon as things quiet down, then it is time for them to feed again. Why do we have bedbugs? Because they can feed. I am often more blunt and tell people that if they do not want bedbugs, then they should stop feeding them. From your email, I know you now understand that.

     You have an odd 3-futon/wool stacked on a slatted bed frame. You can make the shield using that. A sheet of plastic directly on the slatted bed frame and the plastic skirt hanging down taped and seal to that plastic sheet, like a tent if you wish and stopping and blocking all and any bedbug that are underneath that tent (the shield). To make your sleep comfortable, use your 3-futon/wool on top of the plastic sheet fixed over the slatted bed frame. To make sure there are no bedbugs in the 3-futon/wool you can use dry ice inside a plastic covering and kill bedbugs before using it. Killing bedbugs only in the 3-futon/wool is much easier than covering the whole bed. You can also use heat to kill the bedbugs instead of the dry ice. Most people make their life even easier by using two contour sheets on the mattress (your 3-futon/wool in your case) and tape and seal those two contour sheets together. It is the equivalent of a mattress encasement that will entomb any bedbug that might be in it. You can sleep soundly and without a bite on any ogf theses three methods. Between us, the two contour sheets as a mattress encasement is the easiest of all three, taking no more than fifteen minutes to make it and using sheets you have at home without buying anything special.

     Both of your ideas will work (draping the plastic as a single sheet over everything) but using contour sheets will be much more comfortable than sleeping on a hot and slippery plastic for months. Using contour sheets will also assure you that your bedding will not slide off as with a normal fabric mattress (or futon). Using fabric contour sheets will also allow you to use your bed normally, with the bedding hanging down as it should be, bedbugs being on the inner side of the plastic skirt and unable to cross over as long as the skirt is longer than the sides of the bedding and anything longer (usually the corners) are not touching the floor. I never mentionned that the bed should be slightly away from the walls, about 1/2 inch.

     What is the temperature in the midwest? A car in the direct sun (in a driveway) will get very hot during the day. Use a thermometer to make sure the temperature get at least 120 degree F, bedbugs starting to die at 113°F. Maintain that temperature for at least two hours and all bedbugs will be dead inside. A trick that people use in Pheoniz, Arizona is to get a U-Haul trailer, put their things inside of it and take it in the desert. Costs are minimal and the summer sun does the rest.

     The sleeping bag. Yes it is easier to place the large sheet of plastic upside down on the floor to double-side 1/2 inch from the edge and then turn it over. The large sheet of plastic should beat least six inches all around the sleeping bag or mattress if that is what you use to allow the bedding to rest on the plastic instead of on the floor.

     Yes, this is time consuming for me and you are right, I keep repeating things over and over again. I did it for over four years now and I wrote to thousands of people. But I do not mind. I have a feeling of being part of their life and being useful. I made friends all over the world. I’m 68 years old and I have the time to do it in my golden years.

     If you think of anything else that you might need or want other details, do not hesitate to contact me. If you have nothing more to add, then contact me anyway to let me know if everything went well and how your trip was. It is a duty to honor our parents, do not isolate yourself from them.

     Can I be so bold to make sure you will have a trip without bedbugs.

     In friendship

     Julien, aka JulesNoise

     On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:22 PM, The CO2 Bedbug Trap wrote:

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