Bed Bug Insecticide

For best results and total elimination, a total cleaning of the house, and an insecticide application to infested areas, should be carried out, under the advice of a professional pest operate expert. Any way in cases where that kind of total medicine is not required or infestation is only suspected, there are some other steps a homeowner can take to kill bed bugs.

Bed bugs come out at night to feed on the blood of the host. So one of the first steps that can be implemented to kill bed bugs is to remove the corporeal possibility of their traveling from wherever they are hiding to the host at night. This can be done by separating the bed from any adjacent furniture or walls. Legs of the bed can be coated with Vaseline or mineral oil. Coating should be about 2 inches in width. A fence of silica aerogel or chalk can also be placed colse to floor of the bed posts.

Another recipe that can be used is placement of sticky tape on bed posts so that private bed bugs can be captured. This would also make it inherent to recognize the infestation clearly. Duplicate sided floor covering tape can also be used to trap bedbugs.

It is also inherent to physically remove some of the bed bugs and their eggs. One of the many misconceptions about bed bugs is that they cannot be observed by human eyes. In fact they are about a quarter of inch in distance and can be seen. They are not much observed because they tend to hide out in dark crevices and only come out at night. After a straight through test colse to the sleeping area they should dislodged by brushing and scraping their hiding places and by immediately vacuuming before they scramble to another hiding place. Trash in the vacuum bag should be sealed and disposed of safely. Any hiding places and crevices found straight through this recipe should be caulked and filled up if inherent so that they do not offer security to bed bugs in the future.

Various insecticides can be used to kill bed bugs. Most such insecticides available commercially can kill lot of other pests like ants and cockroaches as well. Generally insecticides that kill bed bugs come in the forms of aerosols or dusts, and can be sprayed or spread on the bugs and their hiding places. Unlike with some other insects, bed bugs cannot be baited. These insecticides Generally remain productive for a long period.

Other methods of killing bed bugs consist of placing infested furniture and garments in very cold climatic characteristic or in the sun for some days. Bed bugs cannot stand cold climatic characteristic or heat for long. This recipe also destroys bed bug eggs. Before reintroducing the furniture so treated to daily use again, they should be fully inspected.

By Regularly carrying out such steps a bed bug infestation may be stopped in an early stage.