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Should I deal with bed bugs or move out?
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The insidius thing about bedbugs is that they aren't just in beds. Clothes, people, carpeting, cracks in the wall, baseboards, electric sockets. If there's enough where you can clearly see them along the edges of beds. It's too late, they're already everywhere else.
Also read that they are resistant to insecticides as well. What horrible things they are.
They can go a year without eating.
Their eggs last long too and are nearly invisible.
They can sense CO² from and will travel 100 meters to feed
They will go around barriers and drop on you from the ceiling
Theyd be cool if they didn't suck
Yeah, largely because they don’t have chewing mouthparts (so can’t eat the poison) and don’t lick their feet, so won’t pick it up from there. You have to directly spray a bug to kill it, there’s no residual effect. Diatomaceous Earth works as a residual, as it gets in their joints, cuts them up, and dehydrates them.
I swear by diatomaceous earth but it only works on things with a hard carapace or body. It does not work well on pests with soft bodies like ticks and bed bugs.
DE works, it dehydrates them. But in my experience it helps to control them, it doesn't knock them out completely
There are neurotoxins that are kind of effective, like temprid, but it takes multiple treatments over months to like maybe work