Wish you would have shown what you could catch. I lived with those devils for about a year. It was miserable, to say the least. You cannot feel them crawling at all. You can feel a nat land on you but I think bedbugs levitate..Quite traumatic too, id stay awake for hours scouting and worrying. It took a while to realize i was no longer sharing my bedroom with them. It's been close to 9 year, and i still look. Good luck to anyone that's dealing with this.
Same here, it causes psychological damage. I have bedbug ptsd. I don’t have bedbugs now but want to make these traps to make damned sure they don’t come back.
@@knothead35 , I had bites on the tops of my feet. They itched so bad. The bites followed my vein up my foot. I grabbed my phone one night and sat up to scratch my foot and saw about fifty bugs in the bed. They were fat and full of blood like ticks. Then I ripped the room apart. They were hiding in the box spring mattress. Had nest with eggs. Lots of bug feces and empty exoskeletons because they Lot every-time they feed and outgrow their skin. Probably a couple thousand bugs. I was a hard sleeper so I have no idea how long I had them. I even went to Sr. About the rashes. I threw away everything thing I owned. Moved out. Started over. Edit for typos. It was traumatic.
@@knothead35what tipped me off was the bites. You'll typically get bites on your arms/hands or legs/feet. The bites will either be in a line or clustered together. For people that have a stronger reaction to the bug bites, they'll be itchy for days and maybe painful and swollen. Another verifying sign is you'll start seeing little blood spots on your pillow cases and bed sheets. I got lucky when i found one on the bathroom floor (as they are very tiny) and i captured it to show the exterminator. I apologize for the novel but i feel its important to know the early warning signs so you can catch the infestation early so it doesnt get out of hand. I hope this helps.
@@Wright10301973 You seems lonely to say this. They don't work, so you say, you should tell it didn't work for you. Many others say it works/worked for them. Are you saying they're liars?
I bought a steamer for $60 for clothing and just steamed everything slowly, floorboards, carpet, mattresses, furniture. It worked. Promise. I use it at every new apt I move to. I also use pillow & mattress protectors, and diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the house to keep new bugs from coming in. Now I can sleep at night. I had anxiety about these things for months. A hair would touch my arm and I would freak. Not any more. Wish all the best. Get a steamer!
Thad is the way to go, steamer . My parents got a real bad infestation 3 years ago and I took advantage of they going out of town for a month and bought an steamer and some hotshot dust with diatomaceous earth and before they even step foot in the house they were gone. Now recently im having a situation at mty apt thanks to someone bring them here. Im on my way to get a new steamer to get rid of them here.
@@zombiestarkitten5905 Thanks, I have a shark steamer and clothes steamer, both I assume powerful, but I steamed and steamed and still got bitten... so I'm asking just to see which one is it that worked so well for you. I am also in UK, no home depot here... I'm sure we have equivalent stores
I was in the hospital a while back and I swear they were in the bed they put me in!!! My legs got ate the fuck up and I had on socks that came all the way up to my knees and those little bastards will bite you right through the sock!
Thank you so much, just discovered this at 2am been searching youtube and my kids room hunting them out and different ways to fight against. This is the only video that gave me that fatherly peace of mind that I'll be able to protect my wife and kids. It's 530 now I'm am just waiting for these stores to open so I can get these traps built. Thank you Thank you thank you
@@genericsubscripter of course it did nt work. the dude is dead from bed bug bites. and his kids have been taken in by the Dept of Social Services. this is so sad.
Continued: ok I put 2 on my mattress and nothing the first night. I read that yeast should foam up unless it's 'dead'. Well the yeast I used didn't foam at all so I got better yeast and sure enough! 2 bed bugs in one of the traps. And a bunch of these tiny bugs. So make sure the yeast foams up after a while otherwise it may be dead yeast.
This, to me, is a. perfect, outstanding presentation. Thank you. To the point, useful filming, the right amount of explanation, cheap, simple method. Bravo! Thank you again.
Buy a bag of edible diatomaceous earth that is organic. Works great for all bugs. No fleas no nothing. And it doesn’t harm you no nasty chemicals or anything
Join the crowd. I don't even want to know if the bedbugs are biting me in my bed. I already threw out 3 beds. Now I am upstairs with the only bed left. I have flowered sheet on them now, and i cant really see if something else is on there, and I don't want to even think about it. Now I have flees and they are worse than the bed bugs. Every day I actually see them crawling on me. I never heard of flees being so hard to get rid of.
Jason, thank you so much for sharing this know how. You have saved me and many others from a lot of frustration. Best of luck to you and your family. May the universe provide.
Could I ask what baby powder you used? I ask because everything we find smells strongly and we're wondering if that will still be effective or there is something else that we should use?
It's definitely a multiple method approach. 91% rubbing alcohol, diatomaceous earth around bed legs, steaming, zipper covers on mattresss and pillow cases, and these traps. It's a lot of effort and time consuming but it's possible to get rid of them in a couple months.
I am doing what you suggested. Heard of other CO2 traps but haven't tried any yet. Was wondering why he didn't use diatomaceous earth in the container. I keep a spray bottle with alcohol on hand. I spray where I sit, before and after. I also drenched my bed with alcohol before I covered it with a better mattress cover. I also drenched the sofa. But they are still in there. I also spray with bed bug spray and powder with diatomaceous earth. We may not get a disease from these bloody creatures, but they play havoc on my nervous system! I'm starting to flinch anytime something touches my skin. Not to mention the lack of sleep!
@@janetjilote6495don’t use alcohol it’s extremely dangerous. Swap out the alcohol for tea tree oil mix it with water and a drop of dish soap. Anything you spray is gonna be an on contact killer so if you’re just spraying it on your furniture it won’t do anything you have to spray it directly onto the bug
This man is a genius! I realize the empty guest room means the bugs hide from all other treatments- but this trap makes the bugs think someone is there, and they will come out!!! Thank you Jason Sterling, I'm tellin yo Mama!
THANK YOU! Made one trap last night and have the first victim! Made another just now! Thanks ever soooo much! Pros were here twice, months later still battling the bugs. This works better than their traps which appear to be useless!
Yes, maybe. Initially there were bugs in the trap so I put out another which never attracted them. But, I haven't seen one in over a week. Thanks for the simplicity of your trap using items around the house! @@nikirivera08
One of the things I never hear anybody talk about and is very important is the fact that if you’ve had these things in your house, there’s a very strong likelihood that you have them in your car and so you should put some of these traps in your car whenever you’re not in it!! Obviously the chance of a gust of wind or something messing it up while you are in it is too great but you can put them in each vehicle when you were not in it, it is possible to be reinvested once you get them out of your house because there are some in your car!! You might not ever find the ones in your car either unless you were to take the interior apart?? Don’t forget your car!!! Edit: Tried these traps to the exact specification and they did not work- We went back to heating and spraying and eventually got rid of them !!! The best way is to stop them from biting you so that if you do not kill all of the eggs that might hatch later, you've prevented them from being able to bite you and any that do hatch will starve and die! But keep in mind that they can live upwards of 400 days without feeding!!!!
@@anthonykulhanek8035 I wish you were right but they can survive a couple days of below freezing temperature as well as up to 127°F!!! It needs to get that hot in your car for a more than a few hours, but it’s a good precaution for if you are dealing with these things !! reinfestation happens very easily because people are not thinking broadly enough-
Another person replied that at first they were using yeast that must have been older and it did not activate. Once they bought newer yeast that foamed good, it worked.
One helpful hint I got from my exterminator is to put your empty suitcases in the bathtub when you return from traveling. Bed bugs cannot climb up the sides of the bathtub.
I wouldn't walk through the house to get to the tub. Before I leave for my trip I spray the floor of my garage down really good with bug killer. I also spray the inside of my truck. Once I get home I don't even go in the house until everything that's in the truck is sitting in the garage on the area I sprayed. Then I get naked and may even use a little alcohol on my hair and body. Than I hit the shower. I have never had them, but some of my friends do and it only takes one the size of a pin head to fall off your suitcase going to the tub. My wife works at an apartment complex so I know way to much about them. To repel them, if I am going into a place where I know they are, Deet works really well. Which is in products like Off. Now when I get to the hotel I put my bag in the bathtub or shower and inspect the room.
This trap works! Thank you, I was hoping for a false alarm after getting bites one night and killing one (wasn't even entirely sure it was a bedbug but the bites seemed like it). The next day I built a trap, washed everything with 90 degrees and hoped for the best. After 4 good nights I started to relax but last night got bites again and when I checked the trap there were several dead ones in there :( Honestly, I feel like bawling my eyes out but I built several more traps and really hope I can get rid of them myself. I'm already struggling to get by financially right now and absolutely cannot afford professional treatment.
Buy some food-grade diatomaceous earth. It's cheap and kills them by mechanical action. Microscopic seashells that act like razor blade to their bodies.
@@wesleyrm I’m in Germany but I got my first bites the night a friend had visited me and he had been traveling to Paris before. I wonder if he brought them to me because I hadn’t been traveling. From what I’ve heard Paris seems to have somewhat of an issue, in general they seem to be spreading like crazy all over the world again because of resistance to pesticides. I’m quite confused because the first night I got bitten I caught a bug. It didn’t really look like the pictures of bed bugs I found, it wasn’t oval shaped but rather straight but I don’t know what else it should be and it bit me like hell (I felt the bites in real time though but I read you don’t feel bed bug bites til later?) When I looked closer at the insects in the trap though they had wings and I found that they look like tiny fruit flies. I found them at the windows too, I originally had thought they were stray fruit flies because I had had some in my kitchen but when I killed them some had blood in them. I don’t know if it could have been no-see-ums?? I thought maybe I don’t have bed bugs then and killed most of the flies with bowls of vinegar, water and detergent and found many drowned. Just when I started to relax I got bitten like hell again at night but discovered absolutely nothing with my flashlight and saw nothing flying. Then the next day I found one of these bugs again, the same as in the first night. So it seems I got TWO weird kind of parasites I never had before in my home out of the blue?! I sprinkled baking soda everywhere around my bed and the walls because bed bugs will die within a few days when in contact with it. The last nights I got no or at least definitely fewer bites, I pray I got it under control. Sorry for the long text, I’m just SO confused about what I actually have. I haven’t slept during the night in 2 weeks :/
@@sarahfara1539 To not transmit them, tell the guy to dry heat his clothes before each move! Maybe drying your bedding/clothes could help you! No need to wash, just dry and inspect the filter for ded bugs haha. Yes, France has a problem with those. Here they call them "punaise de lit". Also yes, the bites are only felt after a while, I never spotted any biting me live, the area was already red and itching every time I realized, usually I noticed it only the next morning. Sometimes I couldn't sleep though, so I felt the sudden itch, but never a bite. It itched for a whole day and stayed red for 3~4 days. Really crazy! Mosquito bites are usually white in the center but go away fast (I am Brazilian, I am used to those). But bedbug bites are crazy! I slept really bad too for about 2~3 weeks lol. Then the homeowner came with some strong pesticide and killed them all. Sadly I never spotted them even after he killed them, I just felt the itching and new bites/pricklings stop. Also, never managed to trap bugs in my CO2 trap. The residence has them, other residents spotted some. Then one came back. This past week I spotted a bed bug skin shedding! Which finally gave me confirmation of their presence! Then I had a single bite again in the base of my feet's thumb 2 days later (They love this spot)... I put my sheets in the drier, and I finally spotted a whole bug, red and all. Full of my blood. It was dead, in the machine's drier! I will treasure the photo haha. So try drying your bedding. And use some plastic cover on your bed (Anti-bedbug covers). They can't climb on those. My homeowner has those since he is used to them here haha. The house seems to have many spots for them to hide, so I will try to fill the gaps with some sealant/putty/filler, maybe silicon since I heard it is easy to remove if anything goes wrong. Good luck!
I made 3 1 for my room, 1 for my roomate and 1 for living room. So easy to do and it took me 15 minutes to tape paper towels and mix up the mix and place around I do pray this will get them. Thank you. Best directions I have seen.
@kathrynbarr9084 I was thinking the same thing. Im guessing the goal is that once the eggs hatch, those babies will then head to the traps before they mature enough to lay more eggs? Idk enough about it but that's just my assumption.
A few things for those people that have tried this (I have used this method as well as may others and they all do really work) 1: the water needs to be body temp so you dont kill the yeast...any yeast will do so get the cheapest you can find 2: if you don't want dust from the powder use vaseline in the base of the glass or plastic bowl or better yet use the leaves from your green bean plants if you or a neighbor has any. 3: and this is really the most important make sure where ever you place these traps there is ZERO airflow....even a minor flow of air will make these next to useless .....best way to test this is use a small piece of dry ice and if the vapor hangs out in the bowl with the dry ice wherever you plan to place this it will work perfectly...so no fans or open windows or AC/HEAT....hopefully these tips help you set your traps and make sure they are effective.
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
I promise you guys on my kids this shit WORKS!!! Being a skeptic and suffering I tried it my 1st day I was catching them... stay outta that area n set traps at night in that area. Repeat this for at least 2 wks using them at least 3 days n switch to new ones. This actually works bt it also depends on your infestation mine wasn't to bad thank GOD bt yea this definitely gets A ACTUAL FACTUAL A+ in my book. Thank you 🙏🏽 I really appreciate what you created
Thank you ever so much. I am 72 and for the first time in my life I have bed bugs. My daughter allowed 2 people to stay over the weekend and evidently their clothes and into 1 of my borrowed pillows. I have cleaned all of our bedding and clothes. I have put down diattematious earth and it killed a bunch of fleas that had dropped off of our 2 cats. I thought they were gone and I didn;t got bit. I am so going to do this. I had forgotten that I had tricked fleas in my daughters house kind of this way. Your method is so helpful as I woke up today w. bites on my upper back. I am in pain so God Bless You and your family for instructing people in pain. Thank you .
I'm doing this immediately! My dad passed away in October '22. As if that isn't enough sorrow for me, my son, and my mother, right before he passed, he hauled an old mattress off for his mother. Omg she was infested to the brim. He brought them home on his clothes, and a person of routine, he always came in and changed and put them in a basket by the bed. So mom's room now has them. I just happened to find them when changing her sheets. I conquered them 9 years ago, but it took weeks and LOTS of nasty chemicals. This is definitely an awesome invention. Thanks so much for sharing this, I really mean I am doing it today. Also- a great non-toxic spray is 50/50 vinegar and 90%rubbing alcohol. The smell goes away quickly. Also, Lysol multipurpose cleaner is great for your mattresses. Pick whatever scent you like! The alkyl ingredients are it's effective chemicals. Both will kill them "deader than a doornail " - but only on contact obviously. Again, thanks so much!
I made these and they work! I also washed and dried in a hot dryer all bedding and PJs every night for about two weeks. The heat from the dryer kills everything.
I'm gona try this. I found 3 .on my bed. I was crying. But down diatomaceous earth already and I use lavender and peppermint oil and lemongrass mixed with water and spray my sheets
My papertowels were not heavy enough and I could not use the 1st yeast I found. Also, my bottle made bread and stuffed up the bottle. Got different yeast and towels and going to do it again. This guy really perfected it. In the meantime, I did use the glass pie dish w. water and liquid soap and have caught all of my cats fleas. I had forgotten that I learned that trick years ago.
Thank you for sharing this, it works. I was lucky enough to catch them early before they were all over the house. I am using the traps and also washing and drying bedding every day. I will continue this until I am positive they are gone. This morning no bites and I have not seen any, except in my traps. Thank you again and Bless you.Side note these pests were brought into my house by a visitor whose house is infested. I will recommend your video.
I invited someone to stay and just started seeing them ourselves on couch. Never again will we help people with a place to live.. Definitely trying this method. I actually bought new furniture and everything.. I only seen 1 but there is 1 baby .. there is more.. Mines early as well
Man I recently found bed bugs in my new home build, I have all new furniture and couldn't pinpoint where they could have came from. We did stay in a hotel for a few months which is maybe where they came from. I've only found a couple remnants in one room so far and will be trying your method, thank you so much.
I spray with 91% alcohol it kills instantly. I like this method but it is hard to root out all of the nests. This method is genius and I plan to use it throughout the house. Thank you for the post!
It worked great for us and our friends and family. Just make sure it is placed in an area with little to no airflow that will push the cO2 out of the dish.
@@camelCased In the U.S. rubbing alcohol is isopropyl alcohol. It's actually not that useful in the bed bug fight, and can be extremely dangerous. It's only kills bed bugs when sprayed directly on them. It evaporates very, very quickly (think hand sanitizer) and the vapor is HIGHLY flammable. Misuse by frustrated bed bug victims has caused horrible fires and injuries, and death.
Two questions…Is under the bed a good place to put it or on top? And after you set the trap should you clean the bugs out daily or wait one week before emptying the container?
Family of 8 and lots of stuff. After finding out we had bedbugs we decided to move. This caused us to get rid of a lot of stuff, such as people do when they move, and we inspected and treated everything else before bringing anything into the new place. No furniture was thrown out. We hoped for the best. Next, in the new place, we kept everything far away as possible from the beds and sitting areas. Using ourselves as the bait, we could now concentrate 90% of our treatment efforts on these areas should they show up again -- which they did soon enough. The goods news was after a few weeks (at the most) of daily vigilance it was clear we had got rid of them once and for all.
The traps work quite well. Having made several using the tape I made a modification. I used an Elmer's Washable School Glue Stick and went around the edge of the plastic dish and then affixed the paper towel to the edge. I just found it easier than using the tape. It's a vigilant fight against these little buggers. Fortunately, apart from bites and allergic reactions, there appears to be no reported serious infectious diseases communicated by the blighters.
Read my upper comment. Perhaps due to my age, I have really been suffering with these for about a week now. I thought I had gotten rid of them, but after a few nights wihtout any bites, I got bitten again. I must be very allergic to them as I had a really deep red rash around the bites that if I didn't use cortisone and take a lot of antihistimes to ease the itch and pain, I have been miserable. I feel like my cats do before they need another flea shot.
@@ddmcpaisley6299 I also react terribly to the bites. I found that mint essential oil or Tiger Balm Ultra will stop the itch after about 2 minutes. You just have to get through the 2 minutes, good luck to you.
May I ask what baby powder you used? The Johnson's and anything else we found that wasn't organic (and the organic ones use different base ingredients, so I wasn't sure if that would work) smells so strongly; wondering if it will still work, or if there is something else people are using?
@@lucianewell6084 there isn't really a method. You want to try to be out of the residence as much as possible, there's ways you routinely clean and take protective measures wherever you are sitting and make sure they can't get a blood meal, they will go to the traps. Also Vaseline on the base and legs of things keeps them from climbing up. Clean clean and clean again. And don't forget to put one or two traps in your car when you aren't driving and monitor it so you aren't just tracking them back in. Cheers.
I just made one. Had all of the supplies i needed. I had a hell of a time with no see ums this summer so if the problem occurs next year I'll do this, too. Thank you so much.
Thanks for such a clear, detailed set of instructions and demo. I just made three traps and put them around the foot of my bed away from drafts. I live in one room and am elderly. I thought three traps fairly close might emit enough extra CO2 might help fool the bugs into staying away from me. Just finished making them, it was really quite fun.
@@nichole760-x6w Quite a few climbed into the boxes and died. But more keep coming. If I could leave the room for a few weeks I think I'd eventually clear them but I have to stay in the one room and I think the bugs like my legs better than the box.
@@FarReacher41 Yes, I've heard that if a human is in the room (especially the person the bugs have been feeding on), they prefer to eat human blood and not go for the yeast. So, the best way to fight them is to use yourself as bait and ensure they don't get to you. The main idea is to put special traps (you can make them yourself, they are even easier to create than this yeast trap) around every leg of all your beds where someone sleeps. Ensure that nothing on the bed touches the floor, the walls, or the furniture. A blanket touching the wall at night can ruin everything and you'll have to start fresh. But before doing this, you have to make sure all of your beds and pillows etc. are free of the bugs and their eggs - you have to wash all the sheets and everything, clean the mattress with a steam cleaner and also clean every nook and cranny of the bed with a steam cleaner or a heatgun. Only when the bed is 100% clean, your body will act as an unreachable bait for the bugs. Inspect your sheets every morning - if you see any bug feces or even crushed bugs, it means your bed is compromised (maybe a bug got in from your clothes or if your blanket touched the wall) and you have to start it over - clean the pillows, the sheets, the blanket, steam the mattress, heat-gun all the crevices of the bed, including under the bed. Good luck in your fight! It is possible but it won't be easy. If you live in an apartment with neighbors, the bugs might come to you anyway. Sometimes it has to be a shared effort with all the neighbors working together. Or calling professionals (but not the ones with the heating machine - that one does not work for very long).
@@camelCased thanks so much for your reply. I did all the bed and bedding cleaning then got theidea to wear a bug suit used for fishing & other outdoor activities in Northern Canada where blackflies and mosquitos are practically lethal. It worked. I was completely protected from the bugs which couldn't get thru the fine netting of the suit. I captured and destroyed them. I also put diatomaceous earth all around the baseboards to kill incoming and outgoing bugs. That worked too, I found dead bugs around the edges of the room. I've been bug free now for six months and just have to keep doing frequent inspections to get on top of it quickly if there's a recurrence.
I like this because it's a simplified vesrion of the "william's method". I saw a vid where a guy is like "you take a bottle, cut it here... use a tube... this and that...." This is way simpler and you're right, CO2 is heavier than the surrounding air so it will sink.
Thank the Creator for people like you ...we don't have a lot of money or resources out in no mans land ( remote Navajo Reservation) and to come across your video...in the midst of a very hopeless and abysmal situation that leads to the same train of thought...I'm hopeful And motivated and a little jazzed. Lol...to get militant on these little armies. Ugh. People like you are too awesome...you're truly like the best kind of human being. So helpful and so humble. Bless you and your famuly. I'm glad that you're free of. It, bruh. ❤❤😊😊
I am going to give this a try !!! Can’t thank you enough for this video 🙏🏼. I can’t afford professional service and I just last month moved into this place I can not move again and I definitely can’t afford to throw everything out … truly feels nightmarish …. Have NEVER had to deal w this before so fingers crossed 🤞🏼 and again THANK YOU 🙏🏼 Praying this works 🙏🏼🤞🏼🙌🏼😊
Had a guest visit for 4 days, who returned home to find out her apartment building was infested. I immediately pulled the guest room to pieces, washed everything and found 3 rather large bedbugs along a seam under the mattress protector. Not knowing where they may have gotten to, I pulled apart my entire living area, dog bed, couch, washed everything. My concern is that I'm waiting for a problem to happen. In fact our local exterminator said, call me when you start getting bites. Seriously??!!! I then purchased Raid bed bug detectors which has shown nothing. This method and presentation, gives me hope! Will report back with results...So appreciate your time in doing this video!
Wanted to comment as I'm currently having issues with bed bugs and I've noticed that a lot of people seem excited but very few have coke back to share whether or not it worked. I made the traps and set 2 in my daughters room (first place any bugs were found). After 24hrs there were about 20 fruit flies in and around the trap, no bed bugs. I should also include that no one has been in or out of that room, all windows closed and the temp is around 80° (we don't have AC, I know, it's horrible 😂). After 48hrs (today) still no sign of bed bugs, but a lot of now dead fruit flies. I dusted the room with diatomaceous earth and will be making 2 new traps to place in the room tonight. I dont know if or how the diatomaceous earth will affect the yeast so I figure new traps couldn't hurt. Will comment again under this comment in a week with a progress update. Begs bugs are the fkin worst, I swear. 10/10 would not recommend.
@sonork not great. Attracted a lot of other insects, fruit flies and such. Found almost no bed bugs in there. Room was empty for over a month and almost nothing in the traps. Diatomaceous earth ended up being the real hero. Took nearly everything out of the room and absolutely doused the rooms where bedbugs were found in D.E. Everything else didn't do a whole lot.
A house I stayed in was absolutely INFESTED with bedbugs. They had a whole family there, nobody said anything about it and nobody seemed to have any issues. But over the course of 3 nights I sprung up with tons of dark red welts all over my body. I had no idea what was going on and honestly I didnt care at the time (I was going through my fathers funeral and it was hard) so I chaulked it up to stress and maybe an allergic reaction. On the 3rd day I decided to check the bed and saw MILLIONS of them hiding in the seams all around the matress I had been sleeping on. I had to go to the doctor and get a cortozone shot, and even the doctors were shocked to see how badly I had broken out. Huge red welts on my arms, legs, torso. Thankfully I came home and tossed all my stuff in the laundry and I didnt bring them home with me. Its incredible how the entire family had no idea their house was infested and showed no symptoms at all, but only a 2 night stay and I looked like an ebola patient (the family I stayed with were actually horrified to hear of that issue and they took care of it immediately)
I brought them home in an antique 4 post bed. Had them for a couple of months before I saw one running on a pillow one night. Never had any bumps or itching. It's been 4 months since I brought the bed in and 2 months of very little sleep because I had it in my head that I could wake up and kill off what didn't die in the spraying and vacuuming. As much as a pain the bites must have been it's good that you were allergic or you could have infested your home!
@kimberkimKC I react very bad to bites and I knew immediately I was being bitten, big lumps on my legs, I'm getting house looked at to see if I have them, seen nothing but only feeling the bites. I'm glad I have bad reaction, as I wouldn't of known.
@@pam164 same here and yet the people I live with it took them four years to catch on!!!! They really punished me because they would not listen until they started seeing them when I was telling them from the very beginning they’re very week they came into the house…. Ughhh.. feel like I’m about to die now after having dealt with this since 2019, but I think they are finally gone as I have been spraying the whole time plus we heated the house multiple times to about 140°! It’s just something that everybody hast to get on board with dealing with as soon as humanly possible and then it’s not as difficult as it would be waiting for years- I hope you got rid of them!
@@upserlivinthedream I did it right. It was suppose to explode.You have no idea what you are talking about, and when you are in my house watching me do it, then you can tell me I'm wrong.
@@debradavis9312 Start it at 6:37 and watch the entire process again. 😂 It is only suppose to produce carbon dioxide out the top of the bottle...carbon Dioxide isn't liquid....IT IS A GAS!!!!! Duh 🤦♀️" IF YOU LEAVE THE CAP ON, IT WILL EXPLODE AND YOU DONT WANT IT TO EXPLODE. "
Thank you 4 sharing. Found one in my daddy's room 4 or 5 nights ago. I've bought a steamer, chemicals (that almost choked both of us 2 death), diatomaceous earth & so on. This MAKES so MUCH SENSE ‼️ Thank you 4 sharing. Please 🙏 4 us.
Fyi, This mixture will also work to attract mosquitos to traps in your yard - get a "dynatrap" unit and lure them to it, it will trap them. Voila, No yard mosquitos! Using Mosquito bits from home depot will keep it that way! Bugs are such a nuisance. Thanks for posting this, bed bugs are the worst. They make you feel so violated and helpless, this helps fight them very well!
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
DO THIS AFTER YOU TRAVEL NEXT TO YOUR SUITCASES. You should already be mindful about washing everything possible after a trip (on high heat, so pack accordingly), but for big items like the suitcase, you can’t wash that. This works like a charm!!! I caught one of these little fuckers recently and thank god I did.
just an idea : you can always put your suitcase in the shower and spray it all with just hot water. And let it air dry after. If it's winter, you shove the suitcase next to a dehumidifier after it's "watched/soaked" with only hot water. Even soaking it in the tub can be a good way.
Or you can pack your suitcase and all your travel stuff in airtight bags, even thick waste bags will work, but you have to inspect if they are airtight. Then don't open the bags for a year. The bugs will starve. If you live in a place where it goes under 0 Celsius in winter, you can put the stuff out for some time - then bugs should be dead in a few days. The same also goes for very hot summer days, to leave the bags (and bugs) in the sun for the entire summer, and their metabolism + high temperature will make them starve in a few months.
Thanks for sharing Jason. I am going to try this method out for sure. I was asked "where do bed bugs come from" I was stumped and had to reply "I think they are a gift from God" LOL
I always tell this to people who heat treat a room/house The area needs to reach well over 140/150 degrees in order to have an effective treatment. The insides start to reach around 90 and will want to escape and find another cooler area. Once they get out, boom! That's it for them.
I’ve read and understood from professionals and others who have used this, that heat treatment doesn’t work but is quite expensive. It sounds like it would work, right? However, bugs quickly seek cooler areas, such as the crawl space under house, etc. As soon as the heat treatment is done, the bugs return to their dining area, namely their nearest hiding place near you. Bugs feed every 5-7 days, digesting its last meal, but if there are many you may be bitten daily with several bites. Look into CimeXa, a permanent treatment that will keep on protecting up to 10 yrs once applied and left undisturbed (pronounced “sigh-Mex-a”). It is a very fine powder silica dust. It gets under their scales and starts dehydrating them as soon as they walk thru a tiny amount of it. It only takes a thin application for them to walk through from their hiding place on their way to the host for a blood meal. Also, bedbugs proceed like a train…the female goes first emiting a fragrance trail (called a Pheromone) and the other bugs follow in a train like manner to the blood meal-you or another human. Once passing thru CimeXa, I’ve read it takes 24 hrs to kill. It’s not a poison but much more effective than diatomaceous earth, however, care must be take to apply properly, wear a mask with a thin damp cloth under the mask to filter the powder & nitrile or latex gloves as its quite drying. Rockwell Labs (who makes it) their website has tons of info on use and application ideas, even with a paint brush. Comes in a 4 oz container, cost about $13-16 at this time, which covers 200 sq feet. Be careful buying from Amazon as some reported counterfeits. Bedbugsupply is very helpful and has free shipping at present and a sale.Since you only apply to areas where they potentially walk over to hide such as baseboards, mattress edges, furniture seams or under cushions in crevices, and not your entire house area, it can cover an entire apt or small home-remember to only use sparingly (try less than you want to apply because we really want to get rid of them it’s human nature to think excess will be better, but think “this stuff is potent”, small sparingly. Can also be wetted and sprayed (directions on Rockwells website). It doesn’t actually dissolve in water but creates a slurry that can be used in a small sprayer (or larger sprayers for builders or contractors). It is effective for up to 10 yrs if left undisturbed (not vacuumed up, or sprayed over with other compounds). Not only is it effective against bedbugs but also spiders, ants, cockroaches, and many others- some names I’ve never heard of. Good luck & I’m wishing you well and an inexpensive as well as satisfying experience in getting rid of these bugs!
We have a wood furnace system and propane on our home that are connected through the vents central air system. I attempted to heat the house by cooling the thermostat with ice bags to try and do it myself first. Not safe, I don’t recommend, but I thought it was worth a try before spending $2-5k for an exterminator to do the same thing. I was able to get the whole house over 130 degrees for almost 12 hours. 2 days later I found one crawling in the couch seams. This method worked for us and several others we know, been almost 2 years without an issue. We still place them every couple months just to check.
Thank you sir. I dont mind the bread smell if it gets rid of these pest. They are worse than a jungle of wild animals. They know just when to attack. They wait you out. You have to sleep. Never buy used furniture. Save a dime there, but cost you sleep, scars, misery, and scared constantly
You one of those calm speaking white men with a beard who seem like you'll break something 1000x just to fix it, so I trust you. I'm going to come back, I'm ordering everything RN.
okay couldn't get the tape to stay up and i guess the bottles i was using was smaller than yours because it overflowed some. but i put out 2 traps and by 1 i got a red wasp a couple other bugs and the other trap got about 10 bed bugs outside the dish
Cont. Second week using this trap and it is working. Not only got some bed bugs but so many little tiny flying bugs...fruit flies?? And I think a lot of baby bed bugs too. Anyway I make a fresh one and see if any more appear.
@@WitsEnds 24-48hr then you can sweep or vacuum it up but do not mop leave the residue so that it can kill any stragglers. Once it’s down you won’t be bit again
Thanks so much! Unfortunately brought bugs home from relatives about two weeks ago and have tried bug bombs, spraying, and baking soda everywhere yesterday, only because I didn't have the yeast to start your treatment! The trap is set as of tonight and I sure hope it works because this old lady is wire out from dealing with these things! Blessings!
Thank you so much for sharing this. Genius idea! Hoping I’m finished with bed bugs now but with them being able to hibernate, I still feel on edge. Now, thanks to you, I have an inexpensive solution should they show up again! Sleep is truly a necessary thing!
lol. I wish I could see them, so I could kill them,but I never see them. the only time I see them is when I do a bug bomb. Then I see dead and dying ones. and the method here did not work for me at all. I only caught 3 flees.
I haven't tried it yet, but I will. The older woman upstairs brought them home from the care facility she was in after her operation. We share a washer and dryer and no one told me she had them. Now I have them in my bed. Got bites all over my arms and legs and they itch like hell. I find that taking an antihistamine helps control the itch. I have been spraying the top and sides of my mattress every few days to keep them at bay. I've never seen one, but the bites prove they are there. Yes, being in lockdown sucks more than usual now. Will keep you posted.
Tried all this most were in the couch got rid of that and bought a steam cleaner a portable bissell got in-between everything with it no more bed bugs.
Hi. I was wondering how you got them out if your couches and beds? Will they come out of them to go to the traps? Should I still have my couch and beds sprayed? Ty so much!!!
I threw my couch and chairs away. They like to live in wood so I ended up throwing even my firewood away because my cat showed me they were in there and I just wanted them out of the house.
First thing to do once the panic and anger subsides is educate yourself on eliminating them. Declutter and bag stuff. Vacuum throughly with a good vacuum. Hopefully a bagged one. Next is steam and steam and steam some more. Vacuum again. Spray mattress with Sterifab. Dust mattress lightly along the edges with Cimexa using a paint brush. Encase the mattress. Spray the frame and surrounding area with Crossfire and dust lightly with Cimexa. Done deal. Keep vacuuming daily
At first yes, we try to keep our home clean and tidy, with 3 kids and 2 dogs it’s an effort. But when we started asking around tons of our friends and family were either dealing with them or had been and everyone was frustrated with exterminator results. So when I found a method that worked, the easiest way to explain them was to make a video. We are still bed bug free and so are they! Thankfully
I understand your point but secrecy about these makes the bed bug "epidemic" worse. Important to talk and be honest with each other.. esp when visiting each other's homes ya know.
@@nikkib473 absolutely. That's how I was affected. They knew they had them and our kids were still hanging out. They lied and denied things after I confronted them. I was so mad because as soon as I realized what was happening I told them but after investigation it was them who affected me. It was years ago but I've been paranoid ever since.
Hello. Thank you very much, I'm quite convinced this works good. And I'm definitely making this trap today. Just a question as you may know this works better in a room where no one is around. But for people like me who only have one room, as I'm pretty sure the bed bugs will choose me over the trap. So how do you work around with that? Would you suggest to just keep the trap on even as I sleep in the room?
2 questions: did you sleep in the same room as these traps? and wouldn't a light coating of cooking oil near the top of the inside of the container be easier and an effective replacement for the baby powder?
I've tried this 3 times, withing a few hours my bottle is spewing out into the the bottom of the Tupperware? Any help would be awesome! Using the same exact brand you are, 2 spoons of yeast, 2.5 -3 spoons of sugar
@@neavo8421yeah, and what OP DOESNT mention is that you shouldn't because the CO2, if it reaches levels of 15%+ concentration, will kill you. This video is spreading very dangerous info, and not giving the real reasons. If he did, nobody would do this.
Thank you SO much, Jason!! This is one of my all-time top fears. After the exterminator left I wasnt convinced that it had really worked and sure enuff.... You have made me feel confident that there really IS an effective way to deal with this nightmare. What a huge relief!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
My uncle has down syndrome and he has no reaction to bedbugs. He goes to a day program and brought bedbugs home from there so by the time we found out we were infested. We paid for extermination and that did do the trick but we bought our own pesticide an sprayed constantly finally got rid of them then the pandemic happen no bugs for a year. He went back to the day program and we are in the same situation. Tried your trap and it worked. Then with a small alternation so I don't have to keep rebuilding the trap, just a clean the bottle and ad the yeast, sugar, water and baby powder if necessary.
Agreed, and if we had any I would, but we dealt with the problem in this method months before I made the video and had several family and friends use this method successfully. Which caused them to tell others, I had a bunch of people asking how, so I made the video fir an easier explanation. Been well over a year, bed bug free. We still put them out every couple months to check because we travel a lot.
I ended up w bedbugs several years ago. Tried all kinds of pest sprays. Went to my Dr. He said to use diatomaceous Earthvpowder. Sprinkle everywhere. Leave a week. Then clean an vacuum. Sprinkle again. Repeat. So I did that. So far none. I'm type person that hate crawling bugs around me. I was stressed out. Hating to fall asleep. I'm glad u shared this. I will spread the word. By the way the diatamatous earth powder is in stores. Like home Depot etc.
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
This method plus putting sticky traps under each leg of the bedframe deff works. My uncle an aunts home became infested with them after adopting a child. This plus sticky traps under bed frame legs worked wonders. Im now currently dealing with them and cannot for the life of me figure out where i got them. I dont go to peoples homes and spend most my time at work or in the woods. Thankfully this method seems to be seriously working for me
I can’t ever sleep with these bastards bite me through to the fact that I got rocky mountain spotted tick fever at age 9 and almost died! From that point forward I developed a defense mechanism where I would feel things that got on my skin even if they were microscopic!! This means that I do not sleep at all, if I have bedbugs and I’m dealing with them, I will be up for 3 to 4 to 5 days at a time and will be so exhausted and tired I will fall asleep just to be woke up 30 minutes or less, later!!! I’m definitely trying this!
I’m sure he’s making the video now to try to help people dealing with the same situation. But at the time While dealing with the bedbugs I’m sure making you tube videos was Pretty fucking low on the priority list
Dust your baseboards with diatomacious earth. It microscopically pierces the bedbugs exoskeleton, they dehydrate and die. You buy the stuff at the hardware store or garden supply, even Wal-Mart. 4 pound bag is less than $10 and will last a long time. I use it in gardening to dust plants and work into soil to kill grubs. It won't hurt humans or pets.
Me, too. The stuff is awesome! Just don't inhale it. You have to dust your WHOLE HOUSE to get rid of them. If the DT gets wet, it will still work when it dries. Great for roaches, too. Cinnamon works to keep Ants out. Just dust at all entryways where the get in.
it did not work at all for me. Never found any dead bedbugs. I had it on my mattress and didnt work. It is cheap but it didnt work for me, and i got tired of seeing white powder everywhere.
@@debradavis9312 the bedbugs go back to where they hide and die, carrying the DT with them. You won't find the dead ones because they don't die right away, only when they get back to where ever they hide and nest. You don't have to dust everything, just the bed posts, electrical outlets and any small crevices between pieces of wood in the furniture and baseboard cracks. They have a device that aims and puffs it right where you want it to go. You don't need a lot everywhere, just in strategic spots - like the paths they travel. It will eventually stop them cold. Put all your bedding in the dryer on high heat and put your mattress in a plastic mattress bag WITH the DT in it. DT is the safest and most effective way to get rid of these pests. They can't become immune to it. I would rather be sick of the white powder if it meant no bugs.
I've tried this and it definitely works, catches them awesome! My first week caught about 50-70 in total, it was insane, I didn't see that many. Then the next week maybe 20, third week about 15, and now it's staying about 10-15 but I live in an apartment so they can come from anywhere. I don't have baby powder so I use flour but it's just to ensure they can't climb back out.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video my wife and I will be trying this tomorrow after we go to the store and get some yeast and double-sided tape
Wish you would have shown what you could catch. I lived with those devils for about a year. It was miserable, to say the least. You cannot feel them crawling at all. You can feel a nat land on you but I think bedbugs levitate..Quite traumatic too, id stay awake for hours scouting and worrying. It took a while to realize i was no longer sharing my bedroom with them. It's been close to 9 year, and i still look. Good luck to anyone that's dealing with this.
Same here, it causes psychological damage. I have bedbug ptsd. I don’t have bedbugs now but want to make these traps to make damned sure they don’t come back.
How did you know you had them?
@@knothead35 , I had bites on the tops of my feet. They itched so bad. The bites followed my vein up my foot. I grabbed my phone one night and sat up to scratch my foot and saw about fifty bugs in the bed. They were fat and full of blood like ticks. Then I ripped the room apart. They were hiding in the box spring mattress. Had nest with eggs. Lots of bug feces and empty exoskeletons because they
Lot every-time they feed and outgrow their skin. Probably a couple thousand bugs. I was a hard sleeper so I have no idea how long I had them. I even went to Sr. About the rashes. I threw away everything thing I owned. Moved out. Started over.
Edit for typos. It was traumatic.
@@littlefootsgrandma holy crap! Thank you for sharing your horror story
@@knothead35what tipped me off was the bites. You'll typically get bites on your arms/hands or legs/feet. The bites will either be in a line or clustered together. For people that have a stronger reaction to the bug bites, they'll be itchy for days and maybe painful and swollen. Another verifying sign is you'll start seeing little blood spots on your pillow cases and bed sheets. I got lucky when i found one on the bathroom floor (as they are very tiny) and i captured it to show the exterminator. I apologize for the novel but i feel its important to know the early warning signs so you can catch the infestation early so it doesnt get out of hand. I hope this helps.
Listen brother I tried your method and I have no more bedbugs none at all it’s amazing
Did you trap them? if yes how many??
Did u really try this?? And how long did it take for u catch them?
@@DBmamaamy81 They don't work I tried them a couple of times
@@Wright10301973 You seems lonely to say this. They don't work, so you say, you should tell it didn't work for you.
Many others say it works/worked for them. Are you saying they're liars?
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
I bought a steamer for $60 for clothing and just steamed everything slowly, floorboards, carpet, mattresses, furniture. It worked. Promise. I use it at every new apt I move to. I also use pillow & mattress protectors, and diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the house to keep new bugs from coming in. Now I can sleep at night. I had anxiety about these things for months. A hair would touch my arm and I would freak. Not any more. Wish all the best. Get a steamer!
Thank you! I will order a steamer next week!
Thad is the way to go, steamer . My parents got a real bad infestation 3 years ago and I took advantage of they going out of town for a month and bought an steamer and some hotshot dust with diatomaceous earth and before they even step foot in the house they were gone. Now recently im having a situation at mty apt thanks to someone bring them here. Im on my way to get a new steamer to get rid of them here.
Which steamer did you get, please?
I had gotten a standing garment steamer, you can order from home depot 😊
@@zombiestarkitten5905 Thanks, I have a shark steamer and clothes steamer, both I assume powerful, but I steamed and steamed and still got bitten... so I'm asking just to see which one is it that worked so well for you. I am also in UK, no home depot here... I'm sure we have equivalent stores
I work in a hospital ER. This will be a life saver for those of us that come in contact. I’m going to definitely share this. Thank you!!
I was in the hospital a while back and I swear they were in the bed they put me in!!!
My legs got ate the fuck up and I had on socks that came all the way up to my knees and those little bastards will bite you right through the sock!
I am retired ER nurse - wish I had known this back then. LOL😅
2 yrs with no bedbugs but I think they're back! Doing this tonight, plus the D earth. Where do they come from?!
if any employee gets bedbugs, the hospital should pay for the remediation...
Thank you so much, just discovered this at 2am been searching youtube and my kids room hunting them out and different ways to fight against. This is the only video that gave me that fatherly peace of mind that I'll be able to protect my wife and kids. It's 530 now I'm am just waiting for these stores to open so I can get these traps built. Thank you Thank you thank you
Did it work?
how did it go?
Did it work?? @1718inc.
Did it work? I hope so, please let us know! 😮
@@genericsubscripter of course it did nt work. the dude is dead from bed bug bites. and his kids have been taken in by the Dept of Social Services. this is so sad.
Continued: ok I put 2 on my mattress and nothing the first night. I read that yeast should foam up unless it's 'dead'. Well the yeast I used didn't foam at all so I got better yeast and sure enough! 2 bed bugs in one of the traps. And a bunch of these tiny bugs.
So make sure the yeast foams up after a while otherwise it may be dead yeast.
This, to me, is a. perfect, outstanding presentation. Thank you. To the point, useful filming, the right amount of explanation, cheap, simple method. Bravo! Thank you again.
What is the last bottle?😊
Buy a bag of edible diatomaceous earth that is organic. Works great for all bugs. No fleas no nothing. And it doesn’t harm you no nasty chemicals or anything
Currently 3:30AM..another sleepless night worrying that they are going to eat me alive. I will definitely try this.
We still do it every couple months just to check for them, thankfully they have not returned.
Didn it work? These little bastards are biting me to death
@@jasonsterling5915 if
Join the crowd. I don't even want to know if the bedbugs are biting me in my bed. I already threw out 3 beds. Now I am upstairs with the only bed left. I have flowered sheet on them now, and i cant really see if something else is on there, and I don't want to even think about it. Now I have flees and they are worse than the bed bugs. Every day I actually see them crawling on me. I never heard of flees being so hard to get rid of.
@Bonnie Beretta from what I read the alcohol doesn't work when it drys.
Jason, thank you so much for sharing this know how. You have saved me and many others from a lot of frustration. Best of luck to you and your family. May the universe provide.
Could I ask what baby powder you used? I ask because everything we find smells strongly and we're wondering if that will still be effective or there is something else that we should use?
Beautiful thought. Thank you.
@@kimberlyshintre4975 appears to be generic non scented.
It's definitely a multiple method approach. 91% rubbing alcohol, diatomaceous earth around bed legs, steaming, zipper covers on mattresss and pillow cases, and these traps. It's a lot of effort and time consuming but it's possible to get rid of them in a couple months.
Your correct it takes a multiple pronged attack to get these bastards.
I am doing what you suggested. Heard of other CO2 traps but haven't tried any yet. Was wondering why he didn't use diatomaceous earth in the container. I keep a spray bottle with alcohol on hand. I spray where I sit, before and after. I also drenched my bed with alcohol before I covered it with a better mattress cover. I also drenched the sofa. But they are still in there. I also spray with bed bug spray and powder with diatomaceous earth.
We may not get a disease from these bloody creatures, but they play havoc on my nervous system! I'm starting to flinch anytime something touches my skin. Not to mention the lack of sleep!
yes
Are your zipper covers plastic?
@@janetjilote6495don’t use alcohol it’s extremely dangerous. Swap out the alcohol for tea tree oil mix it with water and a drop of dish soap. Anything you spray is gonna be an on contact killer so if you’re just spraying it on your furniture it won’t do anything you have to spray it directly onto the bug
This man is a genius! I realize the empty guest room means the bugs hide from all other treatments- but this trap makes the bugs think someone is there, and they will come out!!! Thank you Jason Sterling, I'm tellin yo Mama!
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
@@MrConartistdesign It didn't actually do anything for me- I used food grade diatomaceous earth, sprinkle everywhere, in crevices, wash everything.
THANK YOU! Made one trap last night and have the first victim! Made another just now! Thanks ever soooo much! Pros were here twice, months later still battling the bugs. This works better than their traps which appear to be useless!
Did these traps help you eradicate?
Yes, maybe. Initially there were bugs in the trap so I put out another which never attracted them. But, I haven't seen one in over a week. Thanks for the simplicity of your trap using items around the house! @@nikirivera08
I am an elderly woman, confined to a wheelchair.
I have tried everything to get rid of bedbugs too. This is great! Within 30 minutes.
I don't believe 30 minutes
@@compton3c
She probably meant she started catching some in 30 mins
Patricia, did yu get rid of the bugs using this??
Poor woman. I hope she's free of them.
Thanks for this. I’m sold. I’ve done steam, diatomaceous, and now I’m going to set this up. Wish us luck.
Any update?
Good luck
Crossfire pesticides
One of the things I never hear anybody talk about and is very important is the fact that if you’ve had these things in your house, there’s a very strong likelihood that you have them in your car and so you should put some of these traps in your car whenever you’re not in it!!
Obviously the chance of a gust of wind or something messing it up while you are in it is too great but you can put them in each vehicle when you were not in it, it is possible to be reinvested once you get them out of your house because there are some in your car!!
You might not ever find the ones in your car either unless you were to take the interior apart??
Don’t forget your car!!!
Edit:
Tried these traps to the exact specification and they did not work-
We went back to heating and spraying and eventually got rid of them !!! The best way is to stop them from biting you so that if you do not kill all of the eggs that might hatch later, you've prevented them from being able to bite you and any that do hatch will starve and die! But keep in mind that they can live upwards of 400 days without feeding!!!!
I mean on a hot summer day when it's 100 out I don't think they will be in there anymore
@@anthonykulhanek8035 I wish you were right but they can survive a couple days of below freezing temperature as well as up to 127°F!!!
It needs to get that hot in your car for a more than a few hours, but it’s a good precaution for if you are dealing with these things !! reinfestation happens very easily because people are not thinking broadly enough-
Very true
Another person replied that at first they were using yeast that must have been older and it did not activate. Once they bought newer yeast that foamed good, it worked.
@@donnas2375 maybe it was the brand? We used brand new...
One helpful hint I got from my exterminator is to put your empty suitcases in the bathtub when you return from traveling. Bed bugs cannot climb up the sides of the bathtub.
@Namfonos Which is why you're supposed to keep your things in the tub where you travel too. Never on the bed/couch/chair.
It would work if I didn't have to shower when I get home from any travel....
I wouldn't walk through the house to get to the tub. Before I leave for my trip I spray the floor of my garage down really good with bug killer. I also spray the inside of my truck. Once I get home I don't even go in the house until everything that's in the truck is sitting in the garage on the area I sprayed. Then I get naked and may even use a little alcohol on my hair and body. Than I hit the shower.
I have never had them, but some of my friends do and it only takes one the size of a pin head to fall off your suitcase going to the tub. My wife works at an apartment complex so I know way to much about them.
To repel them, if I am going into a place where I know they are, Deet works really well. Which is in products like Off.
Now when I get to the hotel I put my bag in the bathtub or shower and inspect the room.
@@victordobin5918 Shower in one of your other 5 bathrooms.
Sad thing is . My home has had bedbugs climbing up the tub and shower wall. Them things really started clinging to things. Walls fridges.
This trap works! Thank you, I was hoping for a false alarm after getting bites one night and killing one (wasn't even entirely sure it was a bedbug but the bites seemed like it). The next day I built a trap, washed everything with 90 degrees and hoped for the best. After 4 good nights I started to relax but last night got bites again and when I checked the trap there were several dead ones in there :( Honestly, I feel like bawling my eyes out but I built several more traps and really hope I can get rid of them myself. I'm already struggling to get by financially right now and absolutely cannot afford professional treatment.
Good luck! They seem to be in France too
Buy some food-grade diatomaceous earth.
It's cheap and kills them by mechanical action.
Microscopic seashells that act like razor blade to their bodies.
@@wesleyrm I’m in Germany but I got my first bites the night a friend had visited me and he had been traveling to Paris before. I wonder if he brought them to me because I hadn’t been traveling. From what I’ve heard Paris seems to have somewhat of an issue, in general they seem to be spreading like crazy all over the world again because of resistance to pesticides. I’m quite confused because the first night I got bitten I caught a bug. It didn’t really look like the pictures of bed bugs I found, it wasn’t oval shaped but rather straight but I don’t know what else it should be and it bit me like hell (I felt the bites in real time though but I read you don’t feel bed bug bites til later?) When I looked closer at the insects in the trap though they had wings and I found that they look like tiny fruit flies. I found them at the windows too, I originally had thought they were stray fruit flies because I had had some in my kitchen but when I killed them some had blood in them. I don’t know if it could have been no-see-ums?? I thought maybe I don’t have bed bugs then and killed most of the flies with bowls of vinegar, water and detergent and found many drowned. Just when I started to relax I got bitten like hell again at night but discovered absolutely nothing with my flashlight and saw nothing flying. Then the next day I found one of these bugs again, the same as in the first night. So it seems I got TWO weird kind of parasites I never had before in my home out of the blue?! I sprinkled baking soda everywhere around my bed and the walls because bed bugs will die within a few days when in contact with it. The last nights I got no or at least definitely fewer bites, I pray I got it under control. Sorry for the long text, I’m just SO confused about what I actually have. I haven’t slept during the night in 2 weeks :/
@@sarahfara1539
To not transmit them, tell the guy to dry heat his clothes before each move! Maybe drying your bedding/clothes could help you! No need to wash, just dry and inspect the filter for ded bugs haha.
Yes, France has a problem with those. Here they call them "punaise de lit". Also yes, the bites are only felt after a while, I never spotted any biting me live, the area was already red and itching every time I realized, usually I noticed it only the next morning. Sometimes I couldn't sleep though, so I felt the sudden itch, but never a bite. It itched for a whole day and stayed red for 3~4 days. Really crazy! Mosquito bites are usually white in the center but go away fast (I am Brazilian, I am used to those). But bedbug bites are crazy!
I slept really bad too for about 2~3 weeks lol. Then the homeowner came with some strong pesticide and killed them all. Sadly I never spotted them even after he killed them, I just felt the itching and new bites/pricklings stop. Also, never managed to trap bugs in my CO2 trap. The residence has them, other residents spotted some.
Then one came back. This past week I spotted a bed bug skin shedding! Which finally gave me confirmation of their presence! Then I had a single bite again in the base of my feet's thumb 2 days later (They love this spot)... I put my sheets in the drier, and I finally spotted a whole bug, red and all. Full of my blood. It was dead, in the machine's drier! I will treasure the photo haha.
So try drying your bedding. And use some plastic cover on your bed (Anti-bedbug covers). They can't climb on those. My homeowner has those since he is used to them here haha.
The house seems to have many spots for them to hide, so I will try to fill the gaps with some sealant/putty/filler, maybe silicon since I heard it is easy to remove if anything goes wrong. Good luck!
@@sarahfara1539 did you manage to get rid of them in the end?
I made 3 1 for my room, 1 for my roomate and 1 for living room. So easy to do and it took me 15 minutes to tape paper towels and mix up the mix and place around I do pray this will get them. Thank you. Best directions I have seen.
Has it worked so far?
any updates ?
Update?
It will leave the eggs behind
@kathrynbarr9084 I was thinking the same thing. Im guessing the goal is that once the eggs hatch, those babies will then head to the traps before they mature enough to lay more eggs? Idk enough about it but that's just my assumption.
A few things for those people that have tried this (I have used this method as well as may others and they all do really work) 1: the water needs to be body temp so you dont kill the yeast...any yeast will do so get the cheapest you can find 2: if you don't want dust from the powder use vaseline in the base of the glass or plastic bowl or better yet use the leaves from your green bean plants if you or a neighbor has any. 3: and this is really the most important make sure where ever you place these traps there is ZERO airflow....even a minor flow of air will make these next to useless .....best way to test this is use a small piece of dry ice and if the vapor hangs out in the bowl with the dry ice wherever you plan to place this it will work perfectly...so no fans or open windows or AC/HEAT....hopefully these tips help you set your traps and make sure they are effective.
Why not use the powder?
Leaves of a green bean plant? What do they do to bb's?
@@scapsgaming6221 They crawl across them and get stuck to them...the hooked hairs on the leaves get stuck in their legs and they cant get out of it.
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
@@kellyjenson362 .... you may be my twin flame. Ijs. Because this is something I would say. Lol
I can't wait to try this. No chemicals is key. Whoever thought of this is genius. You are a Saint and Savior for sharing this thank you.
I promise you guys on my kids this shit WORKS!!! Being a skeptic and suffering I tried it my 1st day I was catching them... stay outta that area n set traps at night in that area. Repeat this for at least 2 wks using them at least 3 days n switch to new ones. This actually works bt it also depends on your infestation mine wasn't to bad thank GOD bt yea this definitely gets A ACTUAL FACTUAL A+ in my book. Thank you 🙏🏽 I really appreciate what you created
Thank you ever so much. I am 72 and for the first time in my life I have bed bugs. My daughter allowed 2 people to stay over the weekend and evidently their clothes and into 1 of my borrowed pillows. I have cleaned all of our bedding and clothes. I have put down diattematious earth and it killed a bunch of fleas that had dropped off of our 2 cats. I thought they were gone and I didn;t got bit. I am so going to do this. I had forgotten that I had tricked fleas in my daughters house kind of this way. Your method is so helpful as I woke up today w. bites on my upper back. I am in pain so God Bless You and your family for instructing people in pain. Thank you .
did it end up working
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
I'm doing this immediately! My dad passed away in October '22. As if that isn't enough sorrow for me, my son, and my mother, right before he passed, he hauled an old mattress off for his mother. Omg she was infested to the brim. He brought them home on his clothes, and a person of routine, he always came in and changed and put them in a basket by the bed. So mom's room now has them. I just happened to find them when changing her sheets. I conquered them 9 years ago, but it took weeks and LOTS of nasty chemicals. This is definitely an awesome invention. Thanks so much for sharing this, I really mean I am doing it today.
Also- a great non-toxic spray is 50/50 vinegar and 90%rubbing alcohol. The smell goes away quickly.
Also, Lysol multipurpose cleaner is great for your mattresses. Pick whatever scent you like! The alkyl ingredients are it's effective chemicals.
Both will kill them "deader than a doornail " - but only on contact obviously. Again, thanks so much!
I made these and they work! I also washed and dried in a hot dryer all bedding and PJs every night for about two weeks. The heat from the dryer kills everything.
Glad it helped you! And the dryer is a great way to kill any on fabrics.
You don't have to keep washing just throw the stuff in the dryer..saves time and money. Of course if it needs washed..wash it.
Yeast gives off heat and carbon dioxide. This is actually genius
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
@MrConartistdesign I don't know but it does make sense. I've never had to deal with bedbugs but maybe reduce the amount of yeast you use.
I'm gona try this. I found 3 .on my bed. I was crying. But down diatomaceous earth already and I use lavender and peppermint oil and lemongrass mixed with water and spray my sheets
My papertowels were not heavy enough and I could not use the 1st yeast I found. Also, my bottle made bread and stuffed up the bottle. Got different yeast and towels and going to do it again. This guy really perfected it. In the meantime, I did use the glass pie dish w. water and liquid soap and have caught all of my cats fleas. I had forgotten that I learned that trick years ago.
Salt and baking soda on the carpets 24 hours then vacuum, no fleas for a month or more
What kind of yeast did you use? I made bread 1st time as well
Thank you for sharing this, it works. I was lucky enough to catch them early before they were all over the house. I am using the traps and also washing and drying bedding every day. I will continue this until I am positive they are gone. This morning no bites and I have not seen any, except in my traps. Thank you again and Bless you.Side note these pests were brought into my house by a visitor whose house is infested. I will recommend your video.
I invited someone to stay and just started seeing them ourselves on couch. Never again will we help people with a place to live.. Definitely trying this method. I actually bought new furniture and everything.. I only seen 1 but there is 1 baby .. there is more.. Mines early as well
@@HeatherNicoleCanyon w
@@HeatherNicoleCanyon what are they
Can I put it în the room where we slept ?
@@elenad3630The room should be empty AFTER placing traps, so that they are the only heat and C02
Man I recently found bed bugs in my new home build, I have all new furniture and couldn't pinpoint where they could have came from. We did stay in a hotel for a few months which is maybe where they came from. I've only found a couple remnants in one room so far and will be trying your method, thank you so much.
I spray with 91% alcohol it kills instantly. I like this method but it is hard to root out all of the nests. This method is genius and I plan to use it throughout the house. Thank you for the post!
It worked great for us and our friends and family. Just make sure it is placed in an area with little to no airflow that will push the cO2 out of the dish.
Rubbing alcohol was a game changer when I found out they were living with me. Definitely recommend it.
@@bbwjunkie8321 Wondering if ethanol would also be the same thing? We don't have "rubbing alcohol" in Europe, it's illegal to sell it here.
@@camelCased In the U.S. rubbing alcohol is isopropyl alcohol. It's actually not that useful in the bed bug fight, and can be extremely dangerous. It's only kills bed bugs when sprayed directly on them. It evaporates very, very quickly (think hand sanitizer) and the vapor is HIGHLY flammable. Misuse by frustrated bed bug victims has caused horrible fires and injuries, and death.
I love the iced tea reference. Omg. Because during times like these, you really feel like like is all that bad
Boy howdy 🤠 the accent has me missing home and sweet tea 😭 quick, helpful and to the point. Thanks 🙏 wish me luck 🍀
I wish more comments told whether or not it worked. This shit is so stressful. Definitely going to give it a shot
Make sure your yeast foams up.
Did it work?
I wish more comments told whether or not it worked.
Thank you! THANK YOU! This was the best video. Informative and to the point. Good job,father and son.
Been through this, wish I would have known about your trap you made, it's brilliant.
Thanks, At least you have a way to prevent and check fir them in the future.
Thank you for sharing this idea. Going to make some traps today to make sure I didn’t pick up some hitchhikers from a garage sale purchase.
Two questions…Is under the bed a good place to put it or on top? And after you set the trap should you clean the bugs out daily or wait one week before emptying the container?
Family of 8 and lots of stuff. After finding out we had bedbugs we decided to move. This caused us to get rid of a lot of stuff, such as people do when they move, and we inspected and treated everything else before bringing anything into the new place. No furniture was thrown out. We hoped for the best.
Next, in the new place, we kept everything far away as possible from the beds and sitting areas. Using ourselves as the bait, we could now concentrate 90% of our treatment efforts on these areas should they show up again -- which they did soon enough.
The goods news was after a few weeks (at the most) of daily vigilance it was clear we had got rid of them once and for all.
I doubt it 🙄
@@corolla3947 Yes, I read these things can go from 6 months to a year without feeding. 😳😳🥺🥺
How’d you get rid of them? Was it difficult?
Update
Hopefully you let the old place know it was infested
The traps work quite well. Having made several using the tape I made a modification. I used an Elmer's Washable School Glue Stick and went around the edge of the plastic dish and then affixed the paper towel to the edge. I just found it easier than using the tape. It's a vigilant fight against these little buggers. Fortunately, apart from bites and allergic reactions, there appears to be no reported serious infectious diseases communicated by the blighters.
Read my upper comment. Perhaps due to my age, I have really been suffering with these for about a week now. I thought I had gotten rid of them, but after a few nights wihtout any bites, I got bitten again. I must be very allergic to them as I had a really deep red rash around the bites that if I didn't use cortisone and take a lot of antihistimes to ease the itch and pain, I have been miserable. I feel like my cats do before they need another flea shot.
@@ddmcpaisley6299 I also react terribly to the bites. I found that mint essential oil or Tiger Balm Ultra will stop the itch after about 2 minutes. You just have to get through the 2 minutes, good luck to you.
works
May I ask what baby powder you used? The Johnson's and anything else we found that wasn't organic (and the organic ones use different base ingredients, so I wasn't sure if that would work) smells so strongly; wondering if it will still work, or if there is something else people are using?
@@kimberlyshintre4975talcum powder or cooking/skin oil
This works surprisingly well when you utilize it correctly
Did you try this method?
Does it work if you are in the residence..they go after you or the trap
@@lucianewell6084 there isn't really a method. You want to try to be out of the residence as much as possible, there's ways you routinely clean and take protective measures wherever you are sitting and make sure they can't get a blood meal, they will go to the traps. Also Vaseline on the base and legs of things keeps them from climbing up. Clean clean and clean again. And don't forget to put one or two traps in your car when you aren't driving and monitor it so you aren't just tracking them back in. Cheers.
@@wakenow7612 great idea on the car as well. Their eggs are transported easily in clothing apparently!
@@lucianewell6084 Like Jason said, leave the room empty sothey don't have the real McCoy to snack on.
I just made one. Had all of the supplies i needed.
I had a hell of a time with no see ums this summer so if the problem occurs next year I'll do this, too. Thank you so much.
Thanks for such a clear, detailed set of instructions and demo. I just made three traps and put them around the foot of my bed away from drafts. I live in one room and am elderly. I thought three traps fairly close might emit enough extra CO2 might help fool the bugs into staying away from me. Just finished making them, it was really quite fun.
Did they work for you!?!
@@nichole760-x6w Quite a few climbed into the boxes and died. But more keep coming. If I could leave the room for a few weeks I think I'd eventually clear them but I have to stay in the one room and I think the bugs like my legs better than the box.
@@FarReacher41 Yes, I've heard that if a human is in the room (especially the person the bugs have been feeding on), they prefer to eat human blood and not go for the yeast. So, the best way to fight them is to use yourself as bait and ensure they don't get to you. The main idea is to put special traps (you can make them yourself, they are even easier to create than this yeast trap) around every leg of all your beds where someone sleeps. Ensure that nothing on the bed touches the floor, the walls, or the furniture. A blanket touching the wall at night can ruin everything and you'll have to start fresh.
But before doing this, you have to make sure all of your beds and pillows etc. are free of the bugs and their eggs - you have to wash all the sheets and everything, clean the mattress with a steam cleaner and also clean every nook and cranny of the bed with a steam cleaner or a heatgun. Only when the bed is 100% clean, your body will act as an unreachable bait for the bugs. Inspect your sheets every morning - if you see any bug feces or even crushed bugs, it means your bed is compromised (maybe a bug got in from your clothes or if your blanket touched the wall) and you have to start it over - clean the pillows, the sheets, the blanket, steam the mattress, heat-gun all the crevices of the bed, including under the bed.
Good luck in your fight! It is possible but it won't be easy. If you live in an apartment with neighbors, the bugs might come to you anyway. Sometimes it has to be a shared effort with all the neighbors working together. Or calling professionals (but not the ones with the heating machine - that one does not work for very long).
@@camelCased thanks so much for your reply. I did all the bed and bedding cleaning then got theidea to wear a bug suit used for fishing & other outdoor activities in Northern Canada where blackflies and mosquitos are practically lethal. It worked. I was completely protected from the bugs which couldn't get thru the fine netting of the suit. I captured and destroyed them.
I also put diatomaceous earth all around the baseboards to kill incoming and outgoing bugs. That worked too, I found dead bugs around the edges of the room.
I've been bug free now for six months and just have to keep doing frequent inspections to get on top of it quickly if there's a recurrence.
@@FarReacher41 you are so awesome - you did such a great job solving this horrible problem with patience, perseverance and imagination, well done!
I like this because it's a simplified vesrion of the "william's method". I saw a vid where a guy is like "you take a bottle, cut it here... use a tube... this and that...." This is way simpler and you're right, CO2 is heavier than the surrounding air so it will sink.
@avery swangoo dude.... You literally replied the same shit on almost every comment. That shit ain't funny just stop. Cringe af
@avery swangoo sorry didn't get that, can you repeat it?
@avery swangoo sorry didn't get that, can you repeat it?
Thank the Creator for people like you ...we don't have a lot of money or resources out in no mans land ( remote Navajo Reservation) and to come across your video...in the midst of a very hopeless and abysmal situation that leads to the same train of thought...I'm hopeful And motivated and a little jazzed. Lol...to get militant on these little armies. Ugh. People like you are too awesome...you're truly like the best kind of human being. So helpful and so humble. Bless you and your famuly. I'm glad that you're free of. It, bruh. ❤❤😊😊
I am going to give this a try !!! Can’t thank you enough for this video 🙏🏼. I can’t afford professional service and I just last month moved into this place I can not move again and I definitely can’t afford to throw everything out … truly feels nightmarish …. Have NEVER had to deal w this before so fingers crossed 🤞🏼 and again THANK YOU 🙏🏼 Praying this works 🙏🏼🤞🏼🙌🏼😊
Hi, did it work?
Had a guest visit for 4 days, who returned home to find out her apartment building was infested. I immediately pulled the guest room to pieces, washed everything and found 3 rather large bedbugs along a seam under the mattress protector. Not knowing where they may have gotten to, I pulled apart my entire living area, dog bed, couch, washed everything. My concern is that I'm waiting for a problem to happen. In fact our local exterminator said, call me when you start getting bites. Seriously??!!! I then purchased Raid bed bug detectors which has shown nothing. This method and presentation, gives me hope! Will report back with results...So appreciate your time in doing this video!
How did it go?
Report?
I’m interested. 😊
Still waiting bro, don't be selfish. We need this!
Did this work for you?
Wanted to comment as I'm currently having issues with bed bugs and I've noticed that a lot of people seem excited but very few have coke back to share whether or not it worked. I made the traps and set 2 in my daughters room (first place any bugs were found). After 24hrs there were about 20 fruit flies in and around the trap, no bed bugs. I should also include that no one has been in or out of that room, all windows closed and the temp is around 80° (we don't have AC, I know, it's horrible 😂). After 48hrs (today) still no sign of bed bugs, but a lot of now dead fruit flies. I dusted the room with diatomaceous earth and will be making 2 new traps to place in the room tonight. I dont know if or how the diatomaceous earth will affect the yeast so I figure new traps couldn't hurt. Will comment again under this comment in a week with a progress update. Begs bugs are the fkin worst, I swear. 10/10 would not recommend.
How'd it go?
@@sonorkthey didn't awnsered you'd
Did it work the second time?
@sonork not great. Attracted a lot of other insects, fruit flies and such. Found almost no bed bugs in there. Room was empty for over a month and almost nothing in the traps. Diatomaceous earth ended up being the real hero. Took nearly everything out of the room and absolutely doused the rooms where bedbugs were found in D.E. Everything else didn't do a whole lot.
Perhaps it is some other kind of Bug in your daughter's room?
A house I stayed in was absolutely INFESTED with bedbugs. They had a whole family there, nobody said anything about it and nobody seemed to have any issues. But over the course of 3 nights I sprung up with tons of dark red welts all over my body. I had no idea what was going on and honestly I didnt care at the time (I was going through my fathers funeral and it was hard) so I chaulked it up to stress and maybe an allergic reaction. On the 3rd day I decided to check the bed and saw MILLIONS of them hiding in the seams all around the matress I had been sleeping on.
I had to go to the doctor and get a cortozone shot, and even the doctors were shocked to see how badly I had broken out. Huge red welts on my arms, legs, torso.
Thankfully I came home and tossed all my stuff in the laundry and I didnt bring them home with me. Its incredible how the entire family had no idea their house was infested and showed no symptoms at all, but only a 2 night stay and I looked like an ebola patient (the family I stayed with were actually horrified to hear of that issue and they took care of it immediately)
I brought them home in an antique 4 post bed. Had them for a couple of months before I saw one running on a pillow one night. Never had any bumps or itching. It's been 4 months since I brought the bed in and 2 months of very little sleep because I had it in my head that I could wake up and kill off what didn't die in the spraying and vacuuming.
As much as a pain the bites must have been it's good that you were allergic or you could have infested your home!
Yeah they do the same thing to me, I’ll get red places all over me!! The place is all swelled up and looks just like welts!
@kimberkimKC I react very bad to bites and I knew immediately I was being bitten, big lumps on my legs, I'm getting house looked at to see if I have them, seen nothing but only feeling the bites. I'm glad I have bad reaction, as I wouldn't of known.
@@turismofoegaming8806They loom like mosquitoe bites, mine do.
@@pam164 same here and yet the people I live with it took them four years to catch on!!!!
They really punished me because they would not listen until they started seeing them when I was telling them from the very beginning they’re very week they came into the house….
Ughhh.. feel like I’m about to die now after having dealt with this since 2019, but I think they are finally gone as I have been spraying the whole time plus we heated the house multiple times to about 140°!
It’s just something that everybody hast to get on board with dealing with as soon as humanly possible and then it’s not as difficult as it would be waiting for years-
I hope you got rid of them!
I love the smell of baking bread so I am happy to have my place smelling like that!
that didnt work for me. it never exploded and went down the bottle.
@@debradavis9312 It's not suppose to explode and drip down the bottle. It worked for 2 good friends of mine so you didn't do the mixture right.
@@upserlivinthedream I did it right. It was suppose to explode.You have no idea what you are talking about, and when you are in my house watching me do it, then you can tell me I'm wrong.
@@debradavis9312 Start it at 6:37 and watch the entire process again. 😂 It is only suppose to produce carbon dioxide out the top of the bottle...carbon Dioxide isn't liquid....IT IS A GAS!!!!! Duh 🤦♀️" IF YOU LEAVE THE CAP ON, IT WILL EXPLODE AND YOU DONT WANT IT TO EXPLODE. "
@@upserlivinthedream don't bother. some people deserve bed bugs....
My family and I are dealing with this as we speak. I am overwhelmed, pandemic, my husband lost his second job and I'm definitely going to try this.
sorry to hear prayers for you and your fam
@@espringer1035 thank you, prayers are always welcome. God bless you.
Same. Hang in there!! Using trazodone to sleep!
Did it work?
No, i never caught anything i made a few traps and never found any. After 2 heat treatments and chemical spray. I am hoping it worked.
Hi, your trap works! I'm not sure if I should be happy or concerned but it works. Thanks a lot for sharing 💐
Did you get rid of them?
@Ruben Rodriguez Yes. I applied multiple methods, including these traps. Cloth steamer is crucial
@@asanabahrami2735 did you use diatomaceous earth?
@Ruben Rodriguez no but I recommend using anything you think might help all ar once
Hi, how many did you catch??
If you don't have baking soda, can you use cornstarch instead? Most baby powders have cornstarch in them.
Thank you for your video. They DO WORK !!! And they do great highly recommend. Very simple
How many did you actually catch??
Thank you 4 sharing. Found one in my daddy's room 4 or 5 nights ago. I've bought a steamer, chemicals (that almost choked both of us 2 death), diatomaceous earth & so on. This MAKES so MUCH SENSE ‼️ Thank you 4 sharing. Please 🙏 4 us.
Any update?
Fyi, This mixture will also work to attract mosquitos to traps in your yard - get a "dynatrap" unit and lure them to it, it will trap them. Voila, No yard mosquitos! Using Mosquito bits from home depot will keep it that way! Bugs are such a nuisance.
Thanks for posting this, bed bugs are the worst. They make you feel so violated and helpless, this helps fight them very well!
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
DO THIS AFTER YOU TRAVEL NEXT TO YOUR SUITCASES. You should already be mindful about washing everything possible after a trip (on high heat, so pack accordingly), but for big items like the suitcase, you can’t wash that. This works like a charm!!! I caught one of these little fuckers recently and thank god I did.
just an idea : you can always put your suitcase in the shower and spray it all with just hot water. And let it air dry after. If it's winter, you shove the suitcase next to a dehumidifier after it's "watched/soaked" with only hot water. Even soaking it in the tub can be a good way.
@@sandramargolis I don't think hot enough; best to use steam cleaner on suitcase.
Or you can pack your suitcase and all your travel stuff in airtight bags, even thick waste bags will work, but you have to inspect if they are airtight. Then don't open the bags for a year. The bugs will starve. If you live in a place where it goes under 0 Celsius in winter, you can put the stuff out for some time - then bugs should be dead in a few days. The same also goes for very hot summer days, to leave the bags (and bugs) in the sun for the entire summer, and their metabolism + high temperature will make them starve in a few months.
Roll the windows up in your car & put in the suitcase. If it’s not hot outside blast the car heater.
Thanks for sharing Jason. I am going to try this method out for sure. I was asked "where do bed bugs come from" I was stumped and had to reply "I think they are a gift from God" LOL
Any update bro?
My thought was " let's just say, we need to bar Egyptians from leaving Egypt "
They're from the damn devil!!!
Good answer! Lol
I always tell this to people who heat treat a room/house
The area needs to reach well over 140/150 degrees in order to have an effective treatment. The insides start to reach around 90 and will want to escape and find another cooler area. Once they get out, boom! That's it for them.
I’ve read and understood from professionals and others who have used this, that heat treatment doesn’t work but is quite expensive. It sounds like it would work, right? However, bugs quickly seek cooler areas, such as the crawl space under house, etc. As soon as the heat treatment is done, the bugs return to their dining area, namely their nearest hiding place near you. Bugs feed every 5-7 days, digesting its last meal, but if there are many you may be bitten daily with several bites. Look into CimeXa, a permanent treatment that will keep on protecting up to 10 yrs once applied and left undisturbed (pronounced “sigh-Mex-a”). It is a very fine powder silica dust. It gets under their scales and starts dehydrating them as soon as they walk thru a tiny amount of it. It only takes a thin application for them to walk through from their hiding place on their way to the host for a blood meal. Also, bedbugs proceed like a train…the female goes first emiting a fragrance trail (called a Pheromone) and the other bugs follow in a train like manner to the blood meal-you or another human. Once passing thru CimeXa, I’ve read it takes 24 hrs to kill. It’s not a poison but much more effective than diatomaceous earth, however, care must be take to apply properly, wear a mask with a thin damp cloth under the mask to filter the powder & nitrile or latex gloves as its quite drying. Rockwell Labs (who makes it) their website has tons of info on use and application ideas, even with a paint brush. Comes in a 4 oz container, cost about $13-16 at this time, which covers 200 sq feet. Be careful buying from Amazon as some reported counterfeits. Bedbugsupply is very helpful and has free shipping at present and a sale.Since you only apply to areas where they potentially walk over to hide such as baseboards, mattress edges, furniture seams or under cushions in crevices, and not your entire house area, it can cover an entire apt or small home-remember to only use sparingly (try less than you want to apply because we really want to get rid of them it’s human nature to think excess will be better, but think “this stuff is potent”, small sparingly. Can also be wetted and sprayed (directions on Rockwells website). It doesn’t actually dissolve in water but creates a slurry that can be used in a small sprayer (or larger sprayers for builders or contractors). It is effective for up to 10 yrs if left undisturbed (not vacuumed up, or sprayed over with other compounds). Not only is it effective against bedbugs but also spiders, ants, cockroaches, and many others- some names I’ve never heard of. Good luck & I’m wishing you well and an inexpensive as well as satisfying experience in getting rid of these bugs!
Well if you are in the desert in a heatwave, would letting bedding, mattresses sit outside in 109f or higher be effective?
We have a wood furnace system and propane on our home that are connected through the vents central air system. I attempted to heat the house by cooling the thermostat with ice bags to try and do it myself first. Not safe, I don’t recommend, but I thought it was worth a try before spending $2-5k for an exterminator to do the same thing. I was able to get the whole house over 130 degrees for almost 12 hours. 2 days later I found one crawling in the couch seams. This method worked for us and several others we know, been almost 2 years without an issue. We still place them every couple months just to check.
@@AllBrightColors No. I live in Florida. The heat will eliminate them from possessions left outside in the sun
@@AllBrightColors lost a Toyota left in sun all summer in Florida and treated every way. I now use an ebike
Thank you sir. I dont mind the bread smell if it gets rid of these pest. They are worse than a jungle of wild animals. They know just when to attack. They wait you out. You have to sleep. Never buy used furniture. Save a dime there, but cost you sleep, scars, misery, and scared constantly
You one of those calm speaking white men with a beard who seem like you'll break something 1000x just to fix it, so I trust you. I'm going to come back, I'm ordering everything RN.
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I thought the same
Updates?
How did it go?
Nailed me to a T, lol. When the exterminators quoted $2-5k to start, I knew there had to be a better way!
okay couldn't get the tape to stay up and i guess the bottles i was using was smaller than yours because it overflowed some. but i put out 2 traps and by 1 i got a red wasp a couple other bugs and the other trap got about 10 bed bugs outside the dish
Even though it overflowed did it work, or you cleaned it out and started again
Did you try again with a new trap?
the bottles are suppose to over flow and get in the dish.
@@debradavis9312 not the wet ingredients. The dish should remain dry.
I'm glad I found your video going to give it a try. Brought bed bugs home from clothes from goodwill.
how cruel. you want to eradicate goodwill ambassadors.......
smh.
Cont. Second week using this trap and it is working. Not only got some bed bugs but so many little tiny flying bugs...fruit flies?? And I think a lot of baby bed bugs too. Anyway I make a fresh one and see if any more appear.
@Jason Sterling Bravo Zulu sir, you're a lifesaver and a Saint, wish all the best for you and yours.
This ingenuity is why bugs will never conquer humans
they will keep sucking human blood for centuries to come............
they are in no hurry to "conquer" humans........ whats the point
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
God bless you sir!!!!!!!! You have changed our lives!!
Did it work for you?? if yes, specifically how many did you catch??
Who doesn't like the smell of baking bread??? That's a win-win in my book, LOL.
If you’re seeing this and have bedbugs get Diatomaceous earth it breaks down their exoskeleton
how long do you leave it on for ?
@@WitsEnds 24-48hr then you can sweep or vacuum it up but do not mop leave the residue so that it can kill any stragglers. Once it’s down you won’t be bit again
What kind of shops usually sell it?/
@@yurizafurizaki5574Through walmart hardware, or amazon
@@yurizafurizaki5574pet shops
Sounds great! I really like that you do not have to use toxic chemicals. Going to give this a try. Thank you.
Thank you! Thank you!! Two treatments done 2 weeks apart. I still don't feel confident. Tomorrow will pick up the items needed.
does his method work ?? I got yeast overflowing the water and into the tray
Thanks so much! Unfortunately brought bugs home from relatives about two weeks ago and have tried bug bombs, spraying, and baking soda everywhere yesterday, only because I didn't have the yeast to start your treatment! The trap is set as of tonight and I sure hope it works because this old lady is wire out from dealing with these things! Blessings!
awwwww I wish u wlda showed it actually workong
Thank you so much for sharing this. Genius idea! Hoping I’m finished with bed bugs now but with them being able to hibernate, I still feel on edge. Now, thanks to you, I have an inexpensive solution should they show up again! Sleep is truly a necessary thing!
Have them now and am going to try this. I’ll almost miss watching them blow up and pop when I light them on fire
lol. I wish I could see them, so I could kill them,but I never see them. the only time I see them is when I do a bug bomb. Then I see dead and dying ones. and the method here did not work for me at all. I only caught 3 flees.
I used a trap similar when I had a problem with those nasty little buggies! Only I used dry ice. This seems like a safer option.
Dry ice is not safer yeast is safe
@@williamworth2746 "this" meant the yeast, not the dry ice...
I haven't tried it yet, but I will. The older woman upstairs brought them home from the care facility she was in after her operation. We share a washer and dryer and no one told me she had them. Now I have them in my bed. Got bites all over my arms and legs and they itch like hell. I find that taking an antihistamine helps control the itch. I have been spraying the top and sides of my mattress every few days to keep them at bay. I've never seen one, but the bites prove they are there. Yes, being in lockdown sucks more than usual now. Will keep you posted.
Any updates ? Is this worked for you?
Tried all this most were in the couch got rid of that and bought a steam cleaner a portable bissell got in-between everything with it no more bed bugs.
What model steam cleaner did you buy?
Did the trap work?
Hi. I was wondering how you got them out if your couches and beds? Will they come out of them to go to the traps? Should I still have my couch and beds sprayed? Ty so much!!!
I threw my couch and chairs away. They like to live in wood so I ended up throwing even my firewood away because my cat showed me they were in there and I just wanted them out of the house.
First thing to do once the panic and anger subsides is educate yourself on eliminating them. Declutter and bag stuff. Vacuum throughly with a good vacuum. Hopefully a bagged one. Next is steam and steam and steam some more. Vacuum again. Spray mattress with Sterifab. Dust mattress lightly along the edges with Cimexa using a paint brush. Encase the mattress. Spray the frame and surrounding area with Crossfire and dust lightly with Cimexa. Done deal. Keep vacuuming daily
I can imagine this is very personal probably not easy for everyone to share that they have had bed bugs in their homes.
Thank you for sharing.
They don’t discriminate LOL
At first yes, we try to keep our home clean and tidy, with 3 kids and 2 dogs it’s an effort. But when we started asking around tons of our friends and family were either dealing with them or had been and everyone was frustrated with exterminator results. So when I found a method that worked, the easiest way to explain them was to make a video. We are still bed bug free and so are they! Thankfully
I understand your point but secrecy about these makes the bed bug "epidemic" worse. Important to talk and be honest with each other.. esp when visiting each other's homes ya know.
@@nikkib473 absolutely. That's how I was affected. They knew they had them and our kids were still hanging out. They lied and denied things after I confronted them. I was so mad because as soon as I realized what was happening I told them but after investigation it was them who affected me. It was years ago but I've been paranoid ever since.
Thanks for sharing...and for including your youth in the project.. I will suggect the use of 1/2 size water bottles. Kudos to you. Hoorah!
Excellent buddy…thanks so much! I appreciate your sincerity and willingness to share! Will give it a try!
Hello. Thank you very much, I'm quite convinced this works good. And I'm definitely making this trap today. Just a question as you may know this works better in a room where no one is around. But for people like me who only have one room, as I'm pretty sure the bed bugs will choose me over the trap. So how do you work around with that? Would you suggest to just keep the trap on even as I sleep in the room?
2 questions: did you sleep in the same room as these traps? and wouldn't a light coating of cooking oil near the top of the inside of the container be easier and an effective replacement for the baby powder?
He said no, that you dont sleep in the room so you dont give them more meal choices
Why try to change something that works
I've tried this 3 times, withing a few hours my bottle is spewing out into the the bottom of the Tupperware? Any help would be awesome! Using the same exact brand you are, 2 spoons of yeast, 2.5 -3 spoons of sugar
@@neavo8421yeah, and what OP DOESNT mention is that you shouldn't because the CO2, if it reaches levels of 15%+ concentration, will kill you.
This video is spreading very dangerous info, and not giving the real reasons.
If he did, nobody would do this.
Thank you SO much, Jason!! This is one of my all-time top fears. After the exterminator left I wasnt convinced that it had really worked and sure enuff.... You have made me feel confident that there really IS an effective way to deal with this nightmare. What a huge relief!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
Did u try it?
My uncle has down syndrome and he has no reaction to bedbugs. He goes to a day program and brought bedbugs home from there so by the time we found out we were infested. We paid for extermination and that did do the trick but we bought our own pesticide an sprayed constantly finally got rid of them then the pandemic happen no bugs for a year. He went back to the day program and we are in the same situation. Tried your trap and it worked. Then with a small alternation so I don't have to keep rebuilding the trap, just a clean the bottle and ad the yeast, sugar, water and baby powder if necessary.
I read that only a certain percentage of people have a reaction to the bites. It's crazy
Extremely good video - well done, you've single handed done more than most men
I would have been nice if you would have showed us it worked by letting us see the Trap after sitting out overnight
He already said he doesn’t have bugs anymore
Agreed, and if we had any I would, but we dealt with the problem in this method months before I made the video and had several family and friends use this method successfully. Which caused them to tell others, I had a bunch of people asking how, so I made the video fir an easier explanation. Been well over a year, bed bug free. We still put them out every couple months to check because we travel a lot.
Would diatomaceous earth be good to put in the tupperware or would that discourage them from going inside the trap?
Genius.!!! Thank you so much for sharing 💯
This was a FANTASTIC idea and effective.
Thanks for posting this
I ended up w bedbugs several years ago. Tried all kinds of pest sprays. Went to my Dr. He said to use diatomaceous Earthvpowder. Sprinkle everywhere. Leave a week. Then clean an vacuum. Sprinkle again. Repeat. So I did that. So far none. I'm type person that hate crawling bugs around me. I was stressed out. Hating to fall asleep. I'm glad u shared this. I will spread the word. By the way the diatamatous earth powder is in stores. Like home Depot etc.
Diatomaceous earth is harmful if inhaled as it sticks in the lungs and stays there, so be careful with it.
@@jmd5600 I was thanks
USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH.
PLEASE ANSWER: Can flour, cornstarch, baking soda or diatomaceous earth work in place of the talcum powder?
This guy got it down to a science 😂🙏🏼 I might have to try this soon thank you so so much😩 hopefully this saves me and my bank account
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How did it go?
Did it work?
Ya!!! It's time to get revenge of these stinking blood thirsty pests!!!! It's time to round them all up and drag them out of there hiding spots! It's like lining them all up and chain them and then bend them over and issue out swift spankings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be there watching as they're getting spanked and violated just like a little rag doll getting tossed around!!!!
This method plus putting sticky traps under each leg of the bedframe deff works. My uncle an aunts home became infested with them after adopting a child. This plus sticky traps under bed frame legs worked wonders. Im now currently dealing with them and cannot for the life of me figure out where i got them. I dont go to peoples homes and spend most my time at work or in the woods. Thankfully this method seems to be seriously working for me
Probably picked them up from work. It's so easy for them to hitch a ride man.
I can’t ever sleep with these bastards bite me through to the fact that I got rocky mountain spotted tick fever at age 9 and almost died!
From that point forward I developed a defense mechanism where I would feel things that got on my skin even if they were microscopic!!
This means that I do not sleep at all, if I have bedbugs and I’m dealing with them, I will be up for 3 to 4 to 5 days at a time and will be so exhausted and tired I will fall asleep just to be woke up 30 minutes or less, later!!!
I’m definitely trying this!
Make a time lapse video of them getting caught.
Exactly..
He doesn’t have the bedbugs anymore they’ve been eradicated that’s the whole point so there’s no way to make a video of that now
I’m sure he’s making the video now to try to help people dealing with the same situation. But at the time While dealing with the bedbugs I’m sure making you tube videos was Pretty fucking low on the priority list
@@2wheelmotohead339 Still a great idea for next time or others. Be great to see it in action.
It must work I've quite a bit of videos with this being made
Going to try tomorrow. Thank you. I have a good feeling about this. We've tried so many things..anyway, will report results.
Let me know if this works thinking about trying this and making sure my room is very hot
Please let us know if this worked.
Updates?
How you gonna say you'll post results then dip? TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO KNOW
Honestly? What happened bro?
Dust your baseboards with diatomacious earth. It microscopically pierces the bedbugs exoskeleton, they dehydrate and die. You buy the stuff at the hardware store or garden supply, even Wal-Mart. 4 pound bag is less than $10 and will last a long time. I use it in gardening to dust plants and work into soil to kill grubs. It won't hurt humans or pets.
It works amazingly well for fleas also. Have used it for years.
Me, too. The stuff is awesome! Just don't inhale it. You have to dust your WHOLE HOUSE to get rid of them. If the DT gets wet, it will still work when it dries. Great for roaches, too. Cinnamon works to keep Ants out. Just dust at all entryways where the get in.
Thank you!
it did not work at all for me. Never found any dead bedbugs. I had it on my mattress and didnt work. It is cheap but it didnt work for me, and i got tired of seeing white powder everywhere.
@@debradavis9312 the bedbugs go back to where they hide and die, carrying the DT with them. You won't find the dead ones because they don't die right away, only when they get back to where ever they hide and nest. You don't have to dust everything, just the bed posts, electrical outlets and any small crevices between pieces of wood in the furniture and baseboard cracks. They have a device that aims and puffs it right where you want it to go. You don't need a lot everywhere, just in strategic spots - like the paths they travel. It will eventually stop them cold. Put all your bedding in the dryer on high heat and put your mattress in a plastic mattress bag WITH the DT in it. DT is the safest and most effective way to get rid of these pests. They can't become immune to it. I would rather be sick of the white powder if it meant no bugs.
I've tried this and it definitely works, catches them awesome! My first week caught about 50-70 in total, it was insane, I didn't see that many. Then the next week maybe 20, third week about 15, and now it's staying about 10-15 but I live in an apartment so they can come from anywhere. I don't have baby powder so I use flour but it's just to ensure they can't climb back out.
where did u place the trap?
Thanks for taking the time to make this video my wife and I will be trying this tomorrow after we go to the store and get some yeast and double-sided tape
Good luck, remember to place them in places with little airflow