Bedbugs are very small, brown color that suck blood of animals and humans. It’s size is around 5-7 mm. oval shaped. When feeding their body become swell with blood color. These bugs do not fly they just move quickly from places to places. Female bed bugs can lay hundreds of eggs through their life and it’s eggs size is like dust, which will make it harder for you to get rid of them. Here are the bed bugs pictures.

Bed bugs is hard to fight, but believe me you can do it. I have won them before and I will show you how.

First, lets know where you should seek for them then select the way to kill them and then how to maintain and prevent.

Where do bed bugs hide?

Bed bugs usually come in your home through clothin, luggage, 2nd hand beds and couches or funitures. You usually can’t spot them since they are really small and their color make it harder to detect. They don’t have nest but love hiding in tiny spaces together. The very first place they will hide usually are mattresses, bed frames, box springs, headboards…the easy places that they will wait for the night to come and suck your blood.
However, from time to time, they will be all over the places. Your entire bedroom will be filled with bed bugs or even your living room will also be infected.
This is the lists where bed bugs hide. Seek and Destroy accordingly.

1. Chairs and couches seams

2. Curtains folds.
3. Where materials meet and form a gap.
4. Drawer joints.
5. Bed frames and head board.
6. Alarm clock. Yes. Your alarm clock.
7. Pipes (drain, water, electrical conduits)

8. At the junction of wall and ceiling.
9. Under loose wall paper or wall hangings.
10. In electrical receptacles/appliances.
11. Window frame

This is their basic hiding places. Go get them.

How to kill bed bugs

Now that you’ve found them. It’s time to kill.

Below are the easy ways to kill bed bugs. You might have to do all of these since they are often survive from single method. And a few of them can reborn a new wave. First of all, please make sure that the methods you use are safe and legal. Many methods on the internet are not legal and also ineffective and harmful.

What’s not legal

• Using a pesticide in a way that doesn’t follow the label
• Mixing pesticides or ingredients together, this can be harmful and will not likely to work.
• Food-grade diatomaceous earth – this can harm you when you breathe it in. There are another version of diatomaceous earth with different size of diatoms, which reduces the hazard.
• Rubbing alcohol – I actually like to use this method but the compound vaporizes very quickly. It also is flammable and has caused countless house fires when used as a bed bugs control.

With that in mind we now move on to how to kill bed bugs.

• Put all your affected items in bag and wash and dry them on hot setting. All linen, mattress covers, cloth, leather bags etc. Wash and dry them with highest heat possible. Heat will kill bed bugs. If there are something that can’t be washed or discarded then put them in a black plastic bag and lay it on sunny area. Make sure the temperature is 115°F/46.1ºC minimum. Or just use bed bugs spray and sealed the bag for a few months.
• After washing don’t just put them back to their places yet. Let them outside of the infested room and use hot steam to kill bed bugs and eggs. You can try a typical steam cleaner or a vapor steam cleaners (it is significantly hotter than a steam cleaner with less water vapor…around < 5% but a lot more expensive.) The McCulloch Mc1275 has a internal temperature of 250 F and a Nozzle temperately of 220 F. 115F is enough to kill Bed Bugs, however, you need to steam that area for about 10 minutes. With the MC1275, the area needs to be steamed for about 15 seconds to kill bed bugs on contact. There is not such thing as overkill….just kill them all.

• Heat treatment using a clothes dryer on high heat, black plastic bags in the sun or a hot, closed car (pest management professionals have other methods that are not suitable for non-trained individuals to use).
• Use vacuum cleaner.
• Cold treatment can be successful in the home environment if the freezer is set to 0o F. You must leave the items in the freezer at that temperature for four days. (Always use a thermometer to check the temperature, since home freezers are not always set to 0o.)

These non-chemical methods is helpful. However, it is unlikely to eliminate the infestation.

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