Getting Rid Of Bed Bugs - How To Kill Bed Bugs

Temprid SC can be used on mattresses and boxsprings. See details below

Temprid SC Usage: Mix 8 ml.(about 1/3 oz)(measurements on the bottle)of Temprid SC with one gallon of water(Remember to use what you mix-within 24 hours.) Adjust the spray pattern to a mist by turning the nozzle. A low fine mist is best for most spraying, but you may need to use a stream to get into some cracks and crevices. If you can't get into the cracks and crevices use one of the aerosols described below with it's crack and crevice tips to reach into these areas.

Temprid SC controls bed bug populations that are resistant to pyrethroid insecticides.

For infested mattresses, remove linens and wash before reuse. Apply Temprid to tufts, seams, folds, and edges until moist. Allow to dry before remaking bed. Do not spray bed linens

Apply Temprid SC to bedsprings, box springs, and the interior of bed frames or headboards, including all cracks and joints.

When bed bugs are found in upholstered furniture, apply only to the infested tufts, seams, folds and edges, but do not apply to flat surfaces where prolonged human contact will occur. If bugs heavily infest furniture (inside cushions and/or batting) apply a labeled insecticide dust or consider fumigation.

Apply as a crack and crevice treatment to all baseboards, moldings, beneath floor coverings and carpets, closets, shelves, curtains, furniture and picture frames that may provide harborage to bed bugs.

Re-apply Temprid SC every 7 to 10 days, as needed, until infestation is eliminated.

Aerosols( Alpine PT or Bedlam) Usage : Simply attach the plastic tip to the aerosol can. Apply as a crack and crevice or spot treatment where evidence of bed bugs occurs. This includes bed frames, box springs, inside empty dressers, clothes closets, curtain rods, hollow spaces, carpet edges, high and low wall moldings and wallpaper edges.

Top recommendation is Alpine PT Aerosol

Spray liquid insecticides or aerosols :

• Spray around and under the bed and along the baseboards near the bed. After removing the drawers from the furniture, the inside of the cabinetry should be sprayed as well as the bottom and sides of the drawers. Do not treat the inside of the drawers. If needed the clothes in the drawers should be removed and laundered.
• Spray around the inside of the closet, door frame and door.
• Spray molding at top and bottom of room. Spray around windows.
• Spray seams of drawers, both top and bottom. Spray dressers from below. Spray where dressers touch the floor.
• Spray where bed touches floor, spray chairs and underneath chairs.
• Spray all baseboards, loose plaster, behind bed frames and headboards, beneath beds and furniture, and bedsprings and bed frames. Do not apply to furniture surfaces or mattresses where people will be laying or sitting. Infested bedding should not be treated, but should be removed, placed in sealed plastic bags, and taken for laundering and drying at high temperatures.

Dust Usage: (Do not dust on top of moist insecticides)
Put dust into duster. Remove switch plates and electrical outlet covers and dust into the openings. Dust any items hanging on the wall such as pictures with a small paint brush. Use a small paint brush to paint dust in seams and around buttons of mattress. Use dust or aerosol in all joints of the bed frame. If possible disassemble bed frame and treat from all angles with dust and aerosol. After the mattress and box spring has been treated enclose both of these with Mattress Safe Bed Bug Encasements. With these covers you can keep your bed and do not have to treat it again.

Use a Bulb 4 Oz. Duster to really get into the cracks and crevices with the Pyganic DustAnother tool used for dusting would be a small paint brush or small makeup brus Put a sll amount of dust on the tip of the brush, brushing into cracks and crevices.

Important!! Do all of the treatments (as described above) 3 times, 10 days apart.
Bed bugs come out to feed every few weeks, so retreament is critical.
DO NOT USE FOGGERS OF ANY KIND !!!!!!!!!! THESE SCATTER THE BEDBUGS AND MAKE YOUR JOB MANY TIMES MORE DIFFICULT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Other products that will be useful for bed bug control are:
Gentrol IGR. Use for long term bedbug control, prevents the young from maturing into adults. Especially useful for commercial establishments.
All of the products mentioned in this article can be found on our website.
Feel free to call with any questions or concerns with any of our products.

Bedbug Diet

Although the preferred host is human host, it will feed on other animals, such as poultry, mice, rats, canaries, dogs, and cats if necessary. They normally feed at night, but may feed in the daylight in rooms that are not used at night.

Bed Bugs Life Cycle

Bed Bugs Life Cycle Diagram

The life cycle stages of a bed bug are egg, nymph, and adult. The reason they are called bed bugs is that they readily infest mattresses, bed frames and box springs. Eggs are laid along the edges of or around buttons on the mattresses. Eggs can also be glued to rough surfaces.

Bed bug females lay about 200 eggs, usually at the rate of three or four a day, in cracks and crevices in the floor or bed. Eggs are placed in cracks, crevices and other isolated and protected shelters. Females lay eggs after a blood meal. Eggs will hatch in one or two weeks into Nymphs. Newly hatched bugs(Nymphs) begin feeding immediately. At room temperature, and with an available food supply, the nymphal period will last 14 to 30 days. They shed their skin (Instar)five times before becoming adults. Bed bugs will mate soon after becoming mature, so the time from egg hatch to egg laying will be 4 to 9 weeks, under favorable conditions. The average life span of the bed bug is 6-12 months and they will feed every 10 days or so during this time. Because bed bugs survive many months without a blood meal .their reproduction is high.

Bedbug Habits

The female will lay eggs in cracks and crevices along the edges of mattresses, box springs and bed frames. Bed bugs will also inhabit other cracks and crevices throughout a room that is infested. These other areas include; behind picture frames, switch plate covers, loose wallpaper, under door and window casings, baseboards or along the edges of carpets.

Bed bugs hide in cracks and crevices during daylight hours.

They hide in the folds and tufts of mattresses, coils of springs, cracks and hollow posts of bed stands bed rails and headboards. They may be found in box springs, inside the cabinetry of furniture and the bottom and sides of drawers.

Bed bugs may hide in upholstery of chairs and sofas.

They are not restricted to these places, however.

A second common source for bedbug infestation occurs in homes where bats, swallows, chimney swifts, pigeons, or other wild hosts have been roosting. Although similar in appearance, these bedbug species that normally feed on bats and birds can be differentiated from the Common Bedbug that prefer humans.
The bat bedbug can and often feeds on humans. The bat bedbug has long hairs on it's body. Eliminate their bat hosts from the building and seal all openings so that bats cannot enter.

Another group of bugs resembling the bed bug infest birds. These bugs are usually confined to bird nests. To control these parasites, the birds and their nests must be removed, and an application of with a residual spray such as Cyonara 9.7 should be applied to the area.

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What do bed bug bites look like and do they carry disease?

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Bed bugs are not usually considered to be disease carriers.

They do suck blood from their host with piercing mouth parts but the bite is painless.

The skin may become irritated or inflamed due to the salivary fluid injected by the bed bugs .A small, hard, swollen, white welt may develop at the site of each bite.

It is important to recognize that not all bites or bite-like reactions are due to bed bugs. Bed bugs or their signs will be present if it is a bed bug bite.

Bed bugs do not live under the skin. If you experience biting sensations during the day, it may be an allergy related condition.

(Other possible sources of irritation are discussed in University of Kentucky entomology fact sheet Invisible Itches: Insect and Non-Insect Causes).

Preventing Bed Bug Infestations

It's important to inspect used furniture, particularly bed frames and mattresses before bringing it into the home. Mattresses, in particular, carry the greatest risk of harboring Bed Bugs and their eggs. You should be wary of acquiring used furnishings, especially beds and couches.

A practice that we have incorporated in our traveling is to inspect for bed bugs in hotel rooms. If possible, carry a flashlight with you and inspect the bed area completely as described above. Also, you may want to inspect or vacuum luggage when you arrive home to prevent any transference.

You can use JT Eaton Bedbug Control for Luggage and Mattresses and spray this both on your luggage and mattresses during travel.

BDS Bed Bug Detection System

The Catchmaster BDS recreates the conditions that bedbugs consider perfect including dark, tight tunneling areas and rough woodsy material. Bed bugs would usually be found: inside the small grooves of corrugated boxes, between mattress creases and aound/under wooden furniture.Each monitor has an adhesive backing which allows you to mount the trap on almost any surface, such as the back of a picture frame.

Verifi Bed Bug Monitor/Detector Trap

Verifi is the newest out by FMC that has proven results for detecting the presence of bed bugs for 90 days. This trap is unique because it traps the whole bed bug population. Not only does it attract the blood seeking bed bugs but also the bed bugs that are seeking shelter.

Can I prevent bed bugs from entering my home?

• After coming home from a trip some infestations can be prevented by washing any clothing or bedding used on the trip.Do this immediately.
• If you buy used furniture, inspect very well all the items before bringing them into your residence.
• Never bring discarded bed frames, mattresses, box springs, or upholstered furniture into your home.