Earn Money Every Day - 10 Ways to Kill Bed Bugs Yourself - Or at Least Control Them

Once you find one you can be assured that there are hundreds if not thousands more. A single bed bug bite can easily be mistaken for a mosquito bite and written off as such giving them time to multiply. They are enough to keep you awake at night just thinking about them, while bed bugs are not a heath danger (do not carry or transmit diseases). Until they feed that is, the adult bed bug is about the size of an apple seed and flat. Just about anywhere. . . Behind light switches, the back of dresser drawers, they can hide under base boards. Killing bed bugs yourself can be a daunting task.

The first 3 listed here are required no matter what you do next If the problem has not gotten to far out of control there are several ways to win the fight against bedbugs. . . With that said. It will take several treatments and constant observation, so whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or hire a pro. It generally takes an egg 50 days to mature. An adult female can lay 200 - 500 eggs in her lifetime. Bed bugs can live a year without feeding on a hosts blood (usually you). There are a couple of things to keep in mind, before you decide to take action. How many is to many, after all? A full blown infestation might require a professional exterminator, in the long run.

Dry climates (Phoenix for example) it is just as effective to out your bedding and cloths in a black garbage bag and set it out in the sun for an afternoon, in hot. Temperature is key. Not out on the line to air dry. Then use a dryer on its hottest setting. Begbugs start dying off at around 114 degrees F. 1* Wash everything in site in the hottest water you can find.

Vacuum again. . . But they need vacuumed up and then take the whole vacuum cleaner outside to change bags. They don't care about crumbs or old food like cockroaches. Bed bugs are not dirty critters. Vacuum like your life depended on it. Etc, the furniture, the box springs, vacuum the drapes. Crook and cranny, vacuum every corner. 2* Vacuum.

HOT water in the steam cleaner and go over the room again, put hot. Combine #1 and #2, now that you have their attention. 3* Steam Clean.

Problem is that it needs to stay below freezing for 2 weeks to work. Cold works also, 4* Just as effective as heat is.

Etc, drapes, box springs, these are best meant for non-traffic areas. There are numerous chemicals on the market but nearly all of them are not intended to touch the skin. Sense then there numbers have been rising and forced tamer chemicals and traps. Around that time the government outlawed DDTs. Prior to WWII beg bugs were all but eliminated. 5* Biological warfare.

They start at about $60 and go up depending on the size needed. The chemicals from #5 can be sprinkled on and injected into the mattress before you seal it in a waterproof mattress bag, for milder cases. Your best bet may be to discard the mattress all together, depending on the level of bedbug infestation. 6* Mattress Bags.

Basically it is just dirt. On a microscopic level it has jagged edges that cut and kill the bedbugs as they crawl across it. They even put it in dog food as a preservative. It is an all natural powder ground up from little tiny fossils of single-celled algae. This is the alternative to harsh chemicals. 7* Diatomaceous Earth.

Yet another way to trap and monitor bed bug traffic. And then from any shipping supply store you can pickup double sided sticky tape to wrap around the sides of the mattress. Roach traps and the like will allow you to keep tabs on how effective your efforts have been so far, this is more for monitoring but flypaper. 8* Traps and Tape.

But remember that bed bugs can live a year without feeding so they are still reproducing. They get a whiff of it and head the other way. It does not kill them. These are a repellent more then anything else. 9* Thyme and tree leaf oil.

Bonus is that it keeps the bedbugs off of you while sleeping. Matter of fact it is good for the skin whether you have bed bugs or not. This will sooth the itching and moisturize the skin, if you find that you have been attacked by bed bugs. Neem oil and neem extract. 10* Neem.

Vacuum and basically do everything mentioned above in 1 though 3. And so on, sheets, bedding, ' ziplock ' bag all cloths. Get rid of clutter. They will ask you to clean up anyway before they even show up, if you do break down and need to hire an exterminator. . . Just a work of warning though. The more you combine the above recommendations the better luck you will have before the need for an exterminator. There we have 7 ways to kill bed bugs and a few ways to monitor your progress in controlling bed bugs.

Sleeping bags or any fabric that you tote around, luggage, all it takes is a couple of stowaways in the laundry. And hopefully you can catch it before it spreads through out the house. Vacuuming over and over again to successfully kill the bed bugs throughout there whole life cycle, monitoring, washing, it will take weeks and months of constant cleaning, know that before you begin, in closing.