Easiest and Fastest Bedbug Trap ever
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Four 500ml bottles, four straws that bends, one drinking glass.
Fabrication time five minutes or less
Cut the straw high enough so that it does not touch the bottom of the glass. It can touch the sides of the glass but not the bottom where bedbugs will be stuck.
You do not need to seal the straw to the bottle like it is shown on the video. A comment made by an experienced user (DonaldTrump) indicated that any little amount of co2 that gets out will trickle down into the bowl anyway. He is right, thank you for his insight. There is nothing better than experience, it helps to make the trap even easier.
But what if I don't have a drinking glass with playing card symbols on it?
Then your screwed
definitely screwed. . . i'm sorry mate.
Lmfao
You’re not getting any bugs
I’ve found that glasses with pictures of dice works just as well.
Wait, I should be clear about this. It works with sevens and elevens, but not with snake eyes.
Why the silence ? A narrative explaining the procedure would have helped.
Julien Noiseux How long was it before you found you had the problem solved. I have a small motel with small rooms about the size of a normal bedroom.
+William Taylor ___ A small motel, the perfect place for bedbug shields and bedbug traps. The dreaded bedbug, the nightmare of all honest hoteliers. Bedbugs can come from any of their guests and the host will stay stuck with the problem, having to pay for the decontamination and losing rentals because bedbugs can't be dislodged for months after an infestation has been discovered.
A dilemma, a catch 22, can't rent and can't tell, losing money because of bedbugs. And the Industry has nothing to offer to solve this problem. All they have is poison and people will find out and stop renting because they do not want to sleep with bedbugs and in poison. Either way you lose, no matter if you do anything about it or not.
And where does this problem come from? Well, you cannot make a full bedbug search every time you have a guest, that would turn them away and you would lose business. So you have to take a chance every time and hope nobody brings bedbugs in, right? That’s how it happens, someone inadvertently brings a single bedbug along (nobody does it on purpose), and that bedbug once inside the room has access to every place and to full nourishment (blood) so it can grow and develop into a multitude of new bedbugs that will eventually create hell for both the host and the guests.
It is that single bedbug that you have to neutralize and keep from being able to feed. That’s right, if you keep that very first bedbug from being able to bite, it will not be able to grow or lay eggs. That lone single bedbug will never start an infestation and will not be able to feed on your guests. Will you ever have a bedbug problem? No! Prevention goes a long way and will save you thousands of dollars. Prevention is what you need to forever be bedbug-proof, impervious to bedbugs. Interested?
All you need is knowledge, how you can turn your rooms inhabitable for bedbugs. Make each room impossible for bedbugs to be able to roam around and most importantly unable to bite your guests by blocking them with a bedbug shield. How long will it be before you find that you solved the problem? Right away, and the problem will be solved permanently, you will never worry about bedbugs again.
Making a room bedbug-proof is relatively easy and it is not expensive. The costs of setting up your rooms proof against bedbug are done only once and after that, the system that you will put in place will keep bedbugs from being able to attack and bite, which is how we get more bedbugs. Keeping the very first bedbug from being able to feed eliminate the whole colony before it even has a chance to start. At worst down the line, you will find a dead bedbug somewhere under the shield when you will be cleaning up the room. A single lone dead bedbug that will show you that the shield did exactly what it is meant for, prevent and eliminate the very first bedbug before it has a chance to feed and multiply. That’s the wonder of the bedbug shield, the ultimate defense against bedbugs, eliminating the very first bedbug.
Making rooms bedbug-proof is a great idea, but how do we do that? And how do we do it at the least possible costs? Well, the system is made of three simple things that anybody can do himself with materials found in local stores, no other costs are involved:
• First, the Bedbug Shield,
• Then, the CO2 Bedbug Traps,
• Last, the Bedbug Barriers.
The Bedbug Shield is an impenetrable barrier placed between the sleeper and the bedbugs. Bedbugs cannot go through it and they cannot go around it either. It is an impasse, a bedbug cul-de-sac. Bedbugs are attracted to the sleeper at night and that barrier stops them from being able to reach him/her. It is made with a fabric cover, such as a contour (fitted) sheet on which is fixed a plastic skirt hanging straight down and almost to the floor. Any bedbug that get under that upside down bag, either on the floor coming from anywhere in the room, as well as bedbugs that might already be in the mattress will get stuck under that shield and will never be able to bite. Bedbugs are totally neutralized by a bedbug shield and slowly die of starvation without molting and without laying eggs. They are stuck never to get out again and they die without anyone even being aware of them. Set up your rooms with bedbug shields and none of your guest will ever get a single bedbug and /or bedbug bite when staying in your place. Any bedbug that you might get from the outside will quickly go under a shield in trying to get its first bite. Your small motel will simply be bedbug-proof, catching and killing bedbugs as they come. Don’t worry about bedbugs anymore, you will have bedbug shields. It is a bed cover that becomes a bedbug trap attracting bedbugs with body heat but keeps them from feeding. It can be made locally for the price of the services of a seamstress making this bed cover to bedbug specifications.
The CO2 Bedbug Traps are bedbug monitors, they detect bedbug presence by catching them when they search for their blood meal. We use their hunger against them, we set up traps using CO2 as a lure. These traps are made with a solution of sugar and yeast to produce CO2 and attract bedbugs into small glass pitfalls from which they cannot get out of. The CO2 bedbug traps can also be made locally and at the lowest costs.
The Bedbug Barriers are fences bedbugs cannot get across. Bedbugs are climbers and excel on wood, paper, latex paint, soft plastics, leather, fabric, masonry, stones... well most anything our dwellings are made of. On the other hand, bedbug fail miserably on hard and smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, porcelain, ceramics, polished metal, hard plastics... and talcum powder! All we need to stop bedbugs from being able to climb up where we do not want them to, (meaning anywhere they can now go in the room), is a smooth vertical surface lightly covered with talcum powder. When bedbugs reach such a talcum covered surface, they slip, they slide, lose their grip and fall down to the floor where the CO2bedbug traps are. The best bedbug barriers are made with ½”common scotch tape applied to the legs of the bed and the furniture as well as above the wall baseboards inside closets and/or storing spaces. Anywhere you do not want bedbugs to be able to go into. Keep them always on the floor where they are the most vulnerable and will go towards the traps instead.
This completes the trap.
• Shield on the bed to keep the very first bedbug from getting a single bite.
• CO2 bedbug traps on the floor to detect and catch the very first bedbugs.
• Bedbug barriers on the furniture and the walls to keep bedbugs down and out of our living quarters.
With these three simple measures you will prevent and eliminate any bedbug as they happen. You will never be infested by bedbugs. No poison, no costs, you are in control.
Sleep well.
JulesNoise
William Taylor
D.E. powder works well. Get it from Amazon instead of Home Depot { works better }
Jose Sevilla Yes, DE is a proven bedbug killer. It is an agricultural method of controlling insects by scratching the layer of wax on their exo-skeleton and rampant insects lose their moisture in 3-7 days depending on how much they came in contact with DE.
The best way to use DE is to use it abondantly on every part of the bed. On the bed frame, in the box spring and on the seams and folds9 Esoecially corners) of the mattress. Why on the bed? Because it is where 70-90% of all the bedbugs are. It is useless to spread DE in every part of the room as there are no more than 7% of all bedbugs in the place where they tell you to pit DE. DE must be in the path of bedbugs so that they walk in it to get dessicated.
But the thing better than DE is a bedbug shield, an impenetrable barrier that stops all bedbugs and keeps them from being able to bite. With a bedbug sjield, all bedbug bites stop at once and you can use the bed normally without getting a single bite.
You can use DE along with a bedbug shield and CO2 bedbug trap for 100% elimination results.
DE, the bedbug shield and the CO2 bedbug traps will eliminate all your bedbugs right down to the last one, leaving no bedbug behind to make a re-infestation
More information about bedbugs and the CO2Bedbug Trap can be found at julesnoise.com/
Probably doesn't like the way his voice sounds on camera. I for one HATE how I sound on camera.
I got rid of them over two years ago and I am still bedbug free. I’m doing this so that other people can get rid of them too. I got people all over the world making bedbug traps. You must think like a hunter, not a poison pusher. This video shows how to make traps with the cheapest and most common materials that anybody can get without having to buy anything other than yeast and sugar. I thought you had made your own six months ago. Did you do it? I am cooking beans and I like it.
Brilliant! I'll try this. How often do u have to replace bottles? I don't knoe if i can find straws that fit snuggly
I was thinkjng of powdering the inside of the glass
Poison, traps... who gives a shite, as long as they get eradicated, eh?
may i know what the hell is in the bottles? ur not saying in the video, not in the description, not in the link!
Mix of yeast and sugar, see the other vids Jules has up here.
@@sterlingwalter5971so is that blood 🩸 to attract them?
@@sterlingwalter5971What if you add co2 tablets for a fish tank. Would that work too?
@@RC44E I have no idea. just do what Jules says to do imo.
Does work! Caught 6 of them at work on the second day of using the device! Very easy to make at home. Thanks!
@__Anton UvaIl__Excellent! Yes the CO2 bedbug trap does work and it will keep working as it did so far for you, catching bedbugs that come out of hiding in the hope of being able to feed (bite you). The CO2 bedbug trap use one of the two most powerful lure to attract and catch bedbugs. The other lure even more powerful as CO2 is the heat from our body. Bedbugs can locate us acroos the room simply from the heat of our body. To lure, and catch bedbugs using body heat as a lure, simply place a bedbug shield over the bed.
The bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier that stops all and every bedbug from being able to feed. With a bedbug shield, all bedbug bites stop at once and you can use the bed without worrying about bedbugs and without getting a single bite. A bedbug shield is the end of the bedbug nightmare.
You can make your own bedbug shield with a simple regular fabric contour sheet placed directly on the mattress and fix and seal a plastic skirt hanging down almost to the floor all around the bed.
The combinatin of the bedbug traps and the bedbug shield eliminates all bedbugs right down to the last one and within weeks, at the most three months you will be bedbug free while being protected against bedbug bites
The bedbug shield can be found at: The Bedbug Shield
More information about bedbugs and the CO2 bedbug trap can be found at julesnoise.com/
Get rid of all your bedbugs and do not let the bedbug bite.
JulesNoise
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Anton Uva where do you work?
I'm so glad I found this video!!! This trap works great!!! It started working with in an hour after I got it all set up. I didn't just use the traps though. I had pest control come out twice for 2 treatments on top of buying some foggers. We launched chemical warfare on these bastards! The traps are helping monitor and catch any stranglers. We have a small child in the home so everything we did was necessary. Even though there have been no signs of the bed bugs for 2 weeks now, we still have the traps up (a total of 12) through out the house. Not taking any chances.
Sounds like he used some groovy napalm.
What do you do, make them drink too much water?
Yeast and sugar and water create a mix that causes to create CO2 that the bed bugs are attracted to and they go into the glass.
That's right, it works every time. Bedbugs follow the CO2 that overflows from the glass and climb on the covered outside of the glass (for easy climbimg) to fall into it and never come out. Bedbugs cannot climb on glass.
2 cups of sugar
1 envelope (7 grams) of yeast
2 liters of lukewarm water
It produces fermentation that releases CO2.
The mix lasts 2-3 weeks
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JnSavedByTheBell you should have stated that in the video
Soooo we're working on the assumption that you know to put sugar and yeast in the water bottles right?
JnSavedByTheBell This is definitely the best DIY bed bug trap I have seen. Great job
I just want to thank you so much. We moved into a house that seem to have had them. My kiddo is allergic and blew up from the bites. for 2 months, we had no idea what was going on. I found the evil critters one night. We set up these traps on the beds while sleeping downstairs. Not only did it help keep them from traveling down, it also caught a TON OF BABIES on my son's bed that seem to have just hatched. The exterminators were impressed w/ them as well and w/ how well they worked. I changed the liquid out every 2-3 days to keep the scent strong and it worked amazingly!
@Jennifer Russell nope. Way back then these helped keep them controlled while we fought w the landlord and finally did get an exterminator
If you have bedbugs, first you must stop all bites with a large sheet of plastic over the whole bed and you put one in each corner under the bed. You can sleep on the bed without a single bite while bedbugs get caught on the floor. Use the link in the description box of this video for a full explanation on how to make Co2 bedbug Trap. It always works, it will make you bedbug free and prevent any re-infestation. Comment back if you have questions.
I really appreciate your help. From reading below, it sounds like the plastic tied at the top doesn't have to be really tight. Is that right? How do you know if it's tied tight enough or not too much? Would it work to put the dry ice in a small opened cooler centered in the plastic? Should you leave it for 24 hours? How do you know if it worked? Sorry for all of the questions. I think it is wonderful how you are so giving of your intellect as well as your heart to others.
@__Henry Howgs
Sorry about the delay.
The plastic sides tied up above the bed does not have to be tight, in fact the dry ice procedure needs an opening at the highest point possible. Tied enough is making sure that the plastic will not fall down, tied too much is seal-tight. It works like this, dry ice is the solid form of CO2 and it turns into its gas form without becoming liquid, it is called sublimation. CO2 in gas form is heavier than air, so it always goes down and accumulates at the bottom of the plastic. Air present in the plastic actually floats on top of the CO2 and as the CO2 volume increases, air gets pushed out of the plastic from the top. The opening at the top of the plastic can be as small as the size of a little finger or as large as the size of the whole bed.
What you are doing is very similar to the pitfall of the CO2bedbug trap; that glass or container bedbugs fall into without being able to get out. It is the same principle only on a larger scale. Bedbugs cannot breathe in pure CO2, and that is what is in both the glass pitfalls and the plastic of the dry ice procedure. A few hours in pure CO2 kill bedbugs, first by suffocation and then by CO2 poisoning. (CO2 poisoning actually takes oxygen directly from the bodies of the bedbugs and from their eggs)
A small open cooler is perfect to put dry ice in.
Bedbugs die before all the dry ice has “melted”, usually 8-10 hours. I suggest to let them soaks in it for a few extra hours. A dry ice procedure could be done in 12 hours, I suggest 24 hours only to be fool proof.
You will see it work as the plastic fills with a whitish cloud. At maximum the whole bag will be filled with that white fog and some of it will escape from the opening on top. The white cloud disappears when the dry ice is gone. If you used transparent plastic, you might see a few dead bedbugs who tried to escape but were stuck inside the plastic.
Your questions are okay, they give you the information you need and that’s the whole point of my videos and website. Henry Howgs is welcome here. Take pictures and keep me informed of your results
Best regards
JulesNoise
WTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. I saw no dry ice in the trap video
Thank you for your encouraging words and knowledge.I covered the whole bed with plastic dust cover including the matress lol.Hope ni more bites for my little boy and me.2 days ago my son wokr up with loads of bites in his arms and I really cried with pity.Today I am doing what's the best of eraducating bed bugs.Thank you oncr again.Hope you don't mind if I have a questions again nxt time.You are simply the best..
Covering the whole bed with plastic dust makes it imprevious to bedbugs. Any bedbug that might be under this plastic in any part of the bed will not be able to reach you and to feed from your warm blood. Covering the whole bed is a bedbug shield, an impenetrable barrier between you and those disgusting parasitic insects.
If it was mosquitoes, wouldn't you put a screen in the window? Bedbugs do not fly and feed mostly in your bed at night, so you put a barrier between you and them, a shield! And put traps on the floor under the bed to catch them when they try to feed.
To get rid of bedbugs, you must stop to unwillingly feeding them. It is not a big secret, take their food away and they will die of starvation.
I do not mind more questions, I'm looking forward to them. Whatever we share on this video will help somebody else. But first we will stop all bites with a shield and then we will cacht any live bedbugs that might come out of hiding for a blood meal. Bedbugs are looking for blood, we will offer them what looks like a meal, traps and pitfalls, barriers they can't get around, starvation for bedbugs that dare to come near us.
Your son never did anything to deserve bedbugs and with you help we will take care of that. Are you willing? I am not a scammer or a profiter, I'm the bedbug master.
Regards
JulesNoise
It is not a mosquito.It's definitely bedbugs as I kill one again when I'm cleaning.I will make the trap after I will finish my sheild..Thank you for your reply.
I know it is not mosquitoes. I only used it to show what works with another insect and it is the same principle for another insect that does not fly, we use a "screen" or barrier to stop them from biting.
You got it right. make the shield first, and then the traps.
It works, at least I've caught a bunch of beg bugs now, really appreciate that you made this vid. Those disliked didn't see the whole vid, go to 1:57 to see the info, the best part.
Yes Becky, the thing is that using a drinking glass we do not need talcum powder as we do with the other traps. Glass at 90 degree is impossible for bedbugs to climb out of.
I made this in the middle of the night for Ferfaerie4484 because she did not have talc at that moment.
The idea of using straws instead of tubing is not mine but comes from Bob Franklin who doing it for his father. A very nice guy with a sharp mind and a golden heart.
This is the simplest trap ever.
Hello,
Thank you for the video. I have a relative and a friend with this horrible problem. and after visiting them took their advice to wash my clothing and stuff and then heat it. Thus far, I'm fine, knock on wood, but . . I have a couple of questions:
1) How long does this trap last (e.g. produce CO2)?
2) How do you suggest keeping the water warm enough should it produce CO2 longer than the water can stay warm?
3) Since making this video have you come up with any other advise or suggestions for people on this topic?
Thank you so very much!
@__ Bertram Moshier
Hi, nice to hear from you.
1) The Yeast and sugar mixture that produces CO2 lasts 2-3 weeks.
2) The water has to be at body temperature (lukewarm or 100°F/40°C) only to make the mix in order to start the fermentation reaction. Once it is done, you leave it and it cools down at room temperature, keeping on producing CO2 until all the sugar is gone and you are left with an 8-12% alcohol homemade brew. It is the same recipe as a poor’s man wine but we are only interested by its CO2 production.
3) Since making this video, I shared the knowledge of making CO2 bedbug traps with over 50 000 people, made 13 other videos on the subject of bedbugs, built a website which is consulted by 200-300 people a day, got the trap known in 70 countries and spend 8-12 hours a day answering questions and getting them bedbug free.
You see, the bedbug trap works, it is not only a monitor as the Industry use CO2 bedbug traps but the most efficient and inexpensive way to prevent and get rid of bedbugs. The CO2 Bedbug Trap along with the Bedbug Shield stops any bedbug infestation before it can get to dramatic proportions and make you spend hundreds of dollars in pesticide costs and problems. People who have such a method do not care if they inadvertently get a bedbug or not, this method catches the very first bedbug even before it can lay an egg, it is a sentinel that catches the mother of all bedbugs.
The secret is simple; it keeps bedbugs from being able to feed. Why do people have bedbugs? No blame is given, but if people have bedbugs it is because they feed them. So are you worried that you got a bedbug home? Don’t wait until you have a fully matured colony to find out (100-500 bedbugs) and consult my website to learn more about the CO2 Bedbug Trap.
The bedbug trap is free, the only costs are in the materials that you will find locally under 10$. Then go back to see your friends and show them what you did, they will be happy to have you as a friend.
Find the trap with Google, keywords “The CO2 Bedbug Trap” or by typing “julesnoise.com” in your omnibox.
Knowledge is the key
JulesNoise
@@JnSavedByTheBell what is in the bottle..is it soda bottles
@@Skj4455xl it's yeast and sugar. Just regular cheap bakers yeast found in any grocery store.
@__János Simon__Bedbugs being able to live up to a year without feeding is a myth. Bedbugscan survive that long only in very cold temperature and without any human presence to get them out of dormancy. The year old bedbug is a false threat profitable only to "professionals" who have everything to gain by scaring people in buying their services or products.
Yes, the CO2 bedbug trap and bedbug shield do starve bedbugs to death by keeping them from feeding. No bites, no bedbugs.
Is it just water in the bottles ? or something else ?
Just tried this last night and this morning I've captured a huge one.
@__Beth VanRavenswaay__Excellent. Catching a huge one first is a good sign. You just might have caught the adult, the one that lay eggs. There are only a few of those adults in the first weeks of an infestation, often only one.
Catching that one is a huge blow to the bedbug nursery. Most often you will be left with only nymphs of various stages which need to bite five times before they become adults themselves and start laying eggs too.
Nymphs are much easier to stop than adults because they are not as resistant and they cannot multiply. They still have to molt many more times before they can do that, and all you have to do to get rid of them is to keep them from feeding. Without blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot molt and cannot multiply. And without our blood to feed on, bedbugs and particularly nymphs cannot survive.
I assume you caught that huge bedbug with the CO2 bedbug trap. To keep bedbugs from being able to feed, all and every bedbug from hatchling to adult, all you need is a bedbug shield.
A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier that keeps bedbugs from being able to feed. Bedbugs are trapped under the shield without any possibility to bite. With a bedbug shield all bedbug bites stop at once and you can use your bed without worrying about bedbugs. Trapped under the shield, bedbugs die of starvation.
You can make your own bedbug shield with a long plastic strip hanging all around the bed, like a skirt and attached to the side of the mattress. Once the plastic skirt is in place, cover the mattress with one of your regular contour sheet and seal it to the plastic skirt with duct tape (Isuggest using white duct tape).
With your CO2 bedbug traps on the floor and your bedbug shield on the bed, you are sure to stop all bedbugs and get rid of the whole infestation in a matter of weeks, without ever be bothered by bedbugs. The key to get rid of bedbugs is to starve them and use their hunger against them so that they will go into the traps, attracted by what seems like the way to they blood meal but are inescapable pitfalls for bedbugs.
In the next few days, you will find more bedbugs in your traps but this time you will find tiny ones, almost to small to see, the hatchlings from the huge bedbug you caught, caught like the mother of all bedbugs when trying to go to their source of food (that is you).
Do not feed bedbugs and they will simply disappear and die of starvation
All is well, keep doing what has worked for you, the traps are relentless and they will catch all the bedbugs for you.
Onc you are done eliminating your bedbugs, pass this method to someone else, leiminating more bedbugs with this knowledge Thank you.
JulesNoise
@__Beth VanRavenswaay__Here is the bedbug shield:__The Bedbug Shield
We've already got a bed cover on both mattress and box spring
Beth VanRavenswaay Good a bed cover will entrap a large number of bedbugs and those bebugs will not be able to feed and will die of starvation. WE must take precaution against bedbugs which might not be entrapped by the bed and box spring covers. Those bedbugs can live between the mattress and the bed covers and use the hanging sheets to get up when you sleep at night and they do.
Protection from mattress cover does not last long as bedbugs outside the covers can feed at will and will start an harborage elsewhere. A bed and/or mattress cover is not a bedbug shield, but it can be turned into one.
All you need is to add the plastic skirt to the sides of the mattress cover (white duct tape) and all around the mattress letting it hang down almost to the floor to stop bedbugs that can use the sheets to get to the top of the mattress cover and to you sleeping on it.
It is the plastic skirt attached to a top cover (either a contour sheet or a mattress cover) that makes the shield. It is the skirt that enclses all bedbugs underneath the shield. With the skirt, bedbugs have no way out but right back down to the floor, away from their food and where the CO2 bedbugs traps are.
Get a 2 feet wide by 25 +/- feet long strip of 2 ml plastic and wrap it around your bed, sealing it with white duct tape to the sides of your mattress cover, and you will have a bedbug shield. Along with your traps, it will stop all bedbug bites at once and catch any bedbug that dares to move.. Hunger controls bedbugs and we use it against them, it works every time, bedbugs are stupid.
Knowledge is the key to eliminate bedbugs and you got it.
JulesNoise
Columbus Ohio is rated #3 of USA wide of outbreaks of bed bugs
@__Teagan SaysHi__You are right, it is a seal around the straw. It is something that everybody has in their own home and that doesn't cost anything. The red stuff is strawberry jelly it dries up and becomes rubbery, making an excellent seal around the straw for less than a penny. I could have said to go to a hardware store and buy silicone but that would not have made it better. The idea is to get CO2 into a small glass or pitfall that bedbugs will be attracted into and not make you spend money.
thanks a lot for all the information. I have a house full of it. I put lot of pesticide lot of them died. no one is living in the house since 8 month now. We are too scared. I will make this nice trap to see if there's still some before moving in.
Merci beaucoup Julien Noiseux.Ce fut réellement un plaisir de vous voir dans vos démonstration. Tout ça semble si évidente.
@__Driveslowly
Technically, legal pesticides do not last more than three months, so there is no more poison in the house, only degraded residues.
The life span of a bedbug varies with the temperature and the bedbug’s activity:
• A dormant bedbug can last up to three months without feeding at 68°F. (scientific studies)
• A dormant bedbug can last up to eight months without feeding in hibernation at near freezing temperature 32°F. (like all insects can)
• An active bedbug will starve to death in 3-4 weeks in temperature of 70-90°F. (fields tests)
• A bedbug is most active at our body heat temperature of 98,6°F. (powerful bedbug attractant)
So there is little chance that there are any surviving bedbugs in the house. Is there a way to be sure? No, not even a sniffing dog could find the left-over bedbugs if any, a sniffing dog cannot tell the difference between a dead bedbug from a live one, they smell the same. A monitor to try to catch any bedbugs left? There is lots of that, passive and active traps of all designs and all prices, most of them not working. Bedbug paraphernalia is a huge market. Anything else? Yes, the CO2 Bedbug Trap. The trap is a long lasting CO2 generator, a lure for bedbugs. CO2 is part of our breath and the other powerful bedbug attractant. Bedbugs follow CO2 to find the source of their food when they are hungry, that’s how they always find us, so yes, the trap can be used as a monitor. Unfortunately, you would still be uncertain as any bedbug still alive would not pounce on the trap as soon as you put it there, to get catch dormant bedbugs, you must first wake them up. How do we do that? By human presence, body heat and CO2.
Scary, isn’t it? But that’s what everybody has to face in a bedbug threat. Don’t worry, the bedbug trap is about elimination and prevention. You can move back any time you want with a few precautions:
• Make the whole house proof against bedbugs with simple bedbug barriers.
• Make the couches and beds impossible for bedbugs to climb in.
• Make CO2 bedbug sentinels and place them directly in the path of bedbugs.
Bedbug barriers are made with common inexpensive scotch tape (the clear and hard shiny surface one) brushed with talcum powder. Place a long horizontal strip of scotch tape above the baseboards of the wall to keep bedbugs from being able to climb up. Any bedbug that would try will immediately fall back down to the floor
Couches and beds can be made impossible to climb in for bedbugs by using the same barriers around the legs and/or above. The same could be done with any other piece of furniture, closets, or any other places where you do not want bedbugs to be able to go into.
CO2 bedbug sentinels are bedbug traps used at half strength to last twice as long as the regular recipe and are meant to catch whatever few bedbugs there might be left or any new bedbug out of nowhere that always begin an infestation. That’s elimination. When you catch that very first bedbug, the mother of all bedbugs, you catch the whole infestation before it has a chance to start. That’s prevention.
If you feel scared at the beginning, install the supreme bedbug barrier on the bed, the bedbug shield. Even in the worst infestation the shield stops all bite and starves bedbug to death. Since you will move in with a bed clear of bedbugs, the shield can be put under the mattress with only the plastic hanging sides showing. No bedbug ever could get through a shield.
There you go, that’s what I would do to your house so that you can use it again without any worry if there are bedbugs still in it or not. Get rid of them if you ever find one, the sentinels are there exactly for that. That’s how good the CO2 Bedbug Trap is.
J’ai voulu garder ma réponse en anglais pour les autres lecteurs, mais j’ai apprécié votre courte conclusion dans ma langue maternelle.
À bientôt
Julien
JnSavedByTheBell
Thank you for all the information. Now it's more than a year that no one lives there. it's a place i'm renovating the weekend. renovation almost done. last month i saw a bug on the wall. it's was a adult quite big. it's was pretty flat, but still some trace of blood on his belly. catch it, put it in a bag, put in my car for a hour, show to my wife. it die while i was driving home. the heat of the car in summer is really powerful to kill them. i let you know if there's stil left. in a few weeks i'm moving in.
I made a trap as you said for my friend, he caught a little one today, it somewhat works, thanks.
Red stuff brown stuff and a bottle without a straw in it. Genious!! That should most definately work to confuse any thirsty stoners who come for a drink. Great job !
Ok,I'll make the shield tomorrow,will keep you updated,thank you so much kind sir,also how often do i have to renew the traps,in other words,how long they last before i dump them and make new ones?
@__ Charaf Lahbiki ___ About 2-3 weeks. At first, the mixture is cloudy and light tan colored with tiny bubbles slowly rising in the mixture and forming larger bubbles on top of the brew. It will smell like baked bread. Those bubbles contain the CO2 we need to attract bedbugs. Near the end of the fermentation, there are lot less bubbles forming and the liquid slowly turns clear like lemonade. It then give off a slight odor of alcohol. It is time to replace it with a new mix.
There is alcohol in the bottle but it is not the best, the fermentation having been done for the CO2 production and not for the quality of the alcohol. Simply discard it and rinse the bottle thouroughly, twice, with the hottest water from the tap before making another mix.
Hi, the 2 cups of sugar with 8 gr of yeast in 2L (100F) water usually last 2-3 weeks. Variations depends on water temperature, yeast shelf life, bacteria or not in bottle
Do not forget to cover the bed with a plastic shield to stop all bites at once
Use the link in the description box under the video to aggess the webstie giving full details on the set-up and procedure to eliminate bedbugs
Do the remix when the brew stops being cloudy and does not produce slow tiny bubbles anymore
@Ali I think he saying by a plastic waterproof sheet with a zipper at Target
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Production of CO2 will last 2-3 weeks. A new mix is cloudy and makes tiny bubbles, replace the mixture when the liquid becomes flat and clear like lemonade.
Traps catch bedbugs in the room and on the floor. To complete the system, put a shield on the bed to stop all and any bedbugs already in the bed from being able to bite. It is the shield that stops bedbugs and stops all bites at once.
Hello Jules! I'm nervous because I've gotten three small bites and am praying it's not what I am fearing...they aren't in a row but one in front of ear, one on chin on opposite side and one at base of neck.I've hardly been getting anything in the traps and I think I've almost done away with them. Do you think I should put a plastic barrier on my new bed? I've done your other suggestions (please see your last reply). I don't have tape on the walls and hoping I don't need it. Bed is away from wall. Maybe more traps? Only two under bed but hardly got anything in quite a while. I have several traps scattered around the house and all of them in last two weeks either caught 1, 2 or none so a good sign. Please reply and I will have more questions because I'm ready to see the end of this. Thanks again my friend.
Hi Mr Jim Humphry,
I often go to bedbug-infested places, kmowimg full well that I might bring a bedbug home and I haven't seen a live bedbug here in the last five years. Am I simply lucky or is there something that keeps bedbugs from being able to reach me? Luck has nothing to do with it, I am simply bedbug-proof.
When I found out I had bedbugs, the first thing I did was to look for something that could stop them and even before I made my first trap, I put a sheet of plastic on my bed. I didn't know that a sheet of plastic could do that then and it took me months to get rid of bedbugs with my newly found traps, but I did it and I could not stop with only mine as more bedbugs were coming from other apartments. It kas been a long struggle, probably very similar to what you are living now. Catching bedbugs now and then, and thinking it was the last of them only to find out that there are more, somewhere... or where ever they came from. It was so frustrating, I can understand you Jim and I wish I could do it for you and put an end to it right now.
It is easier to see results when there are a lot of bedbugs, it is very satisfying to find dead bedbugs in the traps and it gives you hope. But when there are only a few bedbugs remaining, it seems to drag on and we can never be sure if there are bedbugs left or not. What saved me was leaving my shield on as it did for so many people. It has been five years and yet, my shield is still on, I will never take it out. I do not care if I go to bedbug infested places. If I bring a bedbug home, and I probably did more than once, none of these attack ever became an infestation. Any bedbug that I might have picked up never had a chance to bite and feed off me. Bedbugs that cannot feed will simply die of starvation stuck somewhere under the shield. That's where you will find them, taking off the shield one day and finding dead bedbugs as you clean up the bed. Months without bites and dry bedbug corpses, that is the real end of the bedbugs.
What happened is very similar to the very beginning of an infestation. Most people get one or two bedbugs and are not aware of it. Successful bedbugs
find a safe place to hide, usually in the bed and out of sight, close to their "host" so they can easily come back to feed again, and this time with their newly hatched brood of small baby bedbugs. Those few bedbugs feed and multiply. It is the same old story for everybody, damn bedbugs!
You have an advantage, unlike these people who do not find out about bedbugs until it is too late, you are aware of their presence and you know how to stop them. Stopping the very first or the few bedbugs is like stopping the whole infestation before it even begins. I like to call it prevention, this claim of being bedbug-proof that I have. In your case, this new triple bite attack cannot become an infestation because even if they succeeded once, they will not be able to come back for more as it happens for everybody else who are unaware of bedbugs and how to deal with them.
Three bites in the same area, most probably when you were sleeping could mean three bedbugs or only one single bedbug that bit three times. If these bedbugs were nymphs, which is highly probable since nymphs usually outnumber adults 70 to 1, those nymphs had a blood meal and went to hide somewhere to digest and molt. Those bedbugs will have to come back to get more blood for their next molting. That's where you are waiting for them with your shield and traps. What worked for you so far will keep working and if if it is possible to lose one battle, it is impossible to lose the war. Your bedbugs, or whatever is left of them do not multiply and every time you catch or neutralize one under the shield, it is one less bedbug and their population keeps going down. There are very few bedbugs left Jim, every time you eliminated one without getting a bite, all the other bedbugs without blood could not molt or lay eggs either, that's why you have so few bedbugs left.
All is well and going fine, then all of sudden bedbugs are back with a vengeance! It feels like that and we dread going back to the way it was before. The thing about bedbugs is not the insect itself, it is harmless. What is the difference between a mosquito bite and a bedbug bite? No difference, both are insect piercing our skin to lap blood. What we call a bite is a needle-like mouth part that allows their tongue to dip in the tiny hole they make and actually lap blood with it. Neither mosquitoes or bedbugs have a blood pump.
A bedbug that succeeded in getting a blood meal (your last three bites) will always leave its "host" after feeding to find a place to digest. In a place nearly clear of bedbugs, its place of choice will be in the bed. If this bed has a bedbug shield, the bedbug will not be able to go anywhere in the bed and other than hiding in the bedding, it will have to go down completely off the bed and down to the floor. To come back up for its next meal, that bedbug will have to go near the traps on the floor and up the legs of the bed. That's where the barriers on the legs of the bed come in. Bedbugs will try to climb up the legs of the bed and will fail. They will constantly fall down and be sent towards the traps all the time. Even if a bedbug succeeds in getting past the traps and the barriers, it will only end up under the shield that cover the whole bed. A bedbug that succeeds in gettinf a bite can bite only once. It make defeating bedbugs easy with patience, hunger works against them.
If bedbugs are hardly a threat, the damage they do is not physical but emotional. We just can't stand the idea of bedbugs crawling on us at night and waking up in the morning with those welts and hitches, it impacts your whole day and screws up your social life. It is called emotional distress and it is the real damage bedbugs do. It is only an insect, it is our reactions that makes it bigger than life.
It is undeniable that bedbugs are tough and can last a long time without a blood meal. It is especially true of dormant bedbugs that could escape all detection and come out one day, ready and eager to feed. Could it be a bedbug that recently woke up and could let itself drop on the bed, in spite of the precautions you took to keep them at bay? It does not happen often and only in the case of previous large infestations where bedbugs had to migrate much further away from the bed to escape the aggressive male bedbugs. In smaller or early infestations, there is only one adult female and 70ish nymphs to follow, there are no males to attack blood-filled bedbugs and make them spread out somewhere else than the bed. A blood-filled bedbug goes roams around searching for a place to hide away from the light. It ends up in a nearby closet, goes in the daskest corner and then safely digest and molt. Once in the next stage of growth, the bedbug detects nothing, no warm spot anywhere and no traces of the CO2 humans exale. Nothing, so the bedbug slows down and goes in dormancy. Some time later and for some reason the bedbug start to move and seek the light from the crack of the door. It is close to the ceiling and sees the warmth of the person sleeping in the bed. The bedbug takes the shortest route, up to the ceiling and then upside down untill above the bed and release. A dormant bedbug might appear and bite once but will not be able to go right back up once it will leave the bed after feeding this first and last time. That's why the shield is permanent protection against bedbugs, bedbugs cammot go in the bed from above and cannot go up from the floor, even if they already are in the bed. It's a barrier that works both ways. 99% of all bedbugs travel on the floor and there is the 1% that find another way accessible.
I wish every body would make a shield on their bed, no matter if they have bedbugs or not. If you have a shield and then one day a bedbug finds its way in your place, it will be stopped by the shield on its first try. That bedbug will never have a chance to bite and will never feed of your blood. By stopping the very first bedbug, you eliminate the whole infestation even before it happens. Someone with a bedbug shield will never even know there was a bedbug attack as the only clue left will be a dry dead bedbug body in the once in a while we remove the shield to clean up the bed. If every body had a shield and stop all bedbugs at once, there would be no place where bedbug thrive as they do now, and it would be the final bedbug eradication.
A shield does not have to be unpleasant and ugly, advertising the presence of bedbugs. If the simplicity of a plastic sheet is all it takes to stop bedbugs it might not be the most comfortable, it is only meant to stop bedbugs and get rid of them. It can be improved with a long plastic skirt all round the bed and fixed to a regular contour sheet much more comfortable to sleep on than plastic. A shield can be made to be fashionable and nice looking, a bed skirt that fits in the decor and appearance of the bed, nothing to suggest that it is meant for bedbugs. Great thing to use are shower curtains with motifs and colors to meet all kind of tastes. Simply cut them to fit as a long strip of plastic of about 2 feet wide by 25 feet long and then fix it to the contour sheet placed directly on the mattress. You can also add a second skirt over the plastic one as long as the plastic one is longer by at least one inch that this second decorative one. One can match curtains or choose a theme, in decoration, one has to be imaginative, it is all in your hands.
And there are also bedbug traps that are decorative, using flower vases to hold the CO2 mixture and the base or platter as the inescapable pitfall bedbugs fall into. Flowerd of course have to be artificial. Barriers can be decorative strips meant only for the pleasure of the eye when in fact they are barriers that stops any crawling insects, protection.
Gee whiz, I'm writing a book here, such a long-winded answer to a simple question, I'm fascinated by bedbugs. It's details about bedbugs, about where you are at in your bedbug war. It is information that you need, information eases the mind and gives us power, enough power to defeat a simple insect.
Looking forward for your thoughts
JuseNoise
JnSavedByTheBell Your help is really appreciated, Jules. I have several questions, so thank you for your patience:
Why does the shield have to be 1 inch off the ground? Will it work if it's higher since my bed is very high off the floor?
Is it important that the plastic be 2 mil thick?
Why is it important for the plastic to be smooth without wrinkles on the sides? Is it still effective if it's not perfectly smooth?
How do you tape wooden chair legs without damaging it?
When seated, how do you keep them from crawling up your legs if your feet are on the floor?
How long do you put clothes/bedding in the dryer on high heat? Does that kill bugs and eggs?
For items that can't tolerate high heat, can, they be put in bags and use the dry ice treatment?
If the treatment space is bigger than 2x2x2 for 1 lb dry ice, do you double the size for double the space?
Again, thank you for all your help. Don't know what I'd do if I hadn't found you.
Jim Humphry Hi, I like your attitude, it is not enough to simply know what to do but we must also know how it workd and why. Your questions are valid and it is what lead me to make the very first bedbug traps.
First, the shield and why it has to be one inch above the floor. The shield is an improvement of mattress covers for bedbugs. Plastic manufacturers rightly guessed that enclosing bedbugs in a plastic bag and call it a mattress cover will stop bedbugs in the mattress and entomb them to die of starvation (actually they do not know and they do not care if bedbugs die of starvation or not, the only thing they are interested in is to sell plastic encasements made to fit on mattresses and box springs, if you want enclosements for anything else, a couch, a desk or an armchair, they have nothing because there are no standard sizes that can be used to make these enclosures. It seals bedbugs in the mattress and box spring and leaves all the other bedbugs free to roam around and going around the plastic bags using the sheets and blankets to start the infestation outside as if there were no enclosures. The idea of a plastic bag to seal bedbugs in the mattress sounds like a good idea at first but cannot solve the bedbug problem in a room.
So, the shield comes from such an enclosure but with an open bottom end instead of a closed plastic bag. This might seem strange as many people see this opening as a way for bedbugs to get out. But they don't, once under the shield and so close to their intended blood meal, bedbugs stay stuck under the shield and are unable to bite, bedbugs will not walk away from their only source of food, hunger keeps them trying in vain when they could get out but are not smart enough to be aware of that. That one inch space above the floor allows other bedbugs that might be in the room to come out of their hiding places and end up under the shield with all the bedbugs that already are caucht under the shield. As simple as that and no work to be done other than setting up the shield. One inch above the floor is the maximum lenght of the plastic skirt surrounding the bed. This skirt has to be longer than anything else you might put on the bed. With a long plastic skirt, no bedbug can travel sideways and reach the bed sheets, and use them to climb up to the top of the bed and reach you to bite you during the night. That's the only purpose of that plastic skirt sealed on a regular fabric contour sheet that keeps bedbugs from being able to go straight up and reach you. The shield is permanent total protection against bedbugs.
It is not the one inch height that is important but what the skirt does. If in your case your bed is very high off the floor, all you have to do is verify that the bed sheets are not longer than the plastic skirt. So yes, it will work even if the space above the floor is more than one inch.
It is not important that the plastic be 2 mil thick, it can be of any thickness and it will stop bedbugs. 2 mil is only to use a plastic strong enough so that it will not wear and tear as you use it.
It it important for the vertical plastic to be smooth without wrinkles, it is still effective even if it's not perfectly smooth. It is preferable that the plastic be as smooth as possibe and free of most wrinkles because a fold in the plastic could be used by bedbugs to get a grip on it and eventually succeed to get around the plastic. It is also easier to maintain and make the bed so that the shield covered by the hanging bed sheets will be almost out of sight.
But there is more about the plastic that will keep bedbugs from being able to get to the top of the bed, even if one could succeed to get a grip on the vertical smooth plastic. It is the edge of the plastic, that edge which is about one inch above the floor (maybe higher in your case). Bedbugs simply cannot negociate that 180° turn of the edge of the plastic. Bedbugs can't swing and catch anything on the other side of the edge of the plastic. The hanging vertical bottom edge of a smooth wall will stop any climber, it is the ultimate barrier and it works to perfection with bedbugs.
All bedbugs that have tried always felt down when they get at the edge of the plastic skirt. Who would have thought that something as simple as a long strip of plastic fixed to a regular contour sheet is perfect to stop and fight bedbugs, starving them to death while you can sleep without receiving a single bite and without worries about a dying insect that you got where it hurts the most, taking their food away,
Wooden chairs can be protected with bedbug barriers with a simple band of scotch tape that will keep the bedbugs from being to climb up any further. If you want to remove these scotch tape barriers later, use masking tape first on the legs, and then apply the scotch tape on the masking tape. Masking tape is made especially for that in painting, it can be lifted up without any damage to wooden surfaces. Brushing the shiny surface of the scotch tape with baby powder will make that slick vertical surface even more slippery and impossible for bedbugs to cross it.
Bedbugs do not come toward us when we are on the move. We are so huge and so fast that bedbugs simply cannot catch up to us. We are extremely dangerous for bedbugs when we move and bedbugs know it. Bedbugs always wait the middle of the night to feed, when we have been unmoving for a few hours and when bedbugs find it safe and have enough time to get to you and try to feed. But even if bedbugs will not try to get to you while actively seating, shoes with the same principles as a plastic barrier will make it very difficult for bedbugs to climb on. Shoes have to be smooth and give bedbugs as little chance to grip in them as possible. Pick shoes to wear for this activity and keep them slick and impossible to climb up onto. What I have are 1/4 inch bands of black duct tape covered with scotch tape all around the soles of my shoes to go to bedbug infested places. Duct tape because it sticks well to the soles of most shoes and scotch tape to make its outside surface smooth and shiny, so that no bedbug can climb up on the shoes. I have the same thing on beach slippers (different color) that I wear inside for my own comfort.
Clothes/bedding in the dryer on high heat should be around 20-30 minutes. Bedbugs and eggs start to die at 113°F, so it is better to exceed that temperarure and get the clothes/bedding up to 150°F if you can. The most accurate time we can get is with a thermometer inside thick wool socks to protect it in tumbling. Try it a few times and it will tell you how long you could heat-treat your subsequent loads.
Many things cannot be heat-treated. Anything plastic might warp at those temperatures, solid objects are not recommended in a dryer and might cause damage, and some items are simply too large for a dryer. Here comes CO2 to the rescue. Everything about the trap has a reason including the many ways to kill bedbugs. Like any other creature on this planet, bedbugf have to breathe. Even eggs die in an environment deprived of oxygen. We can kill anything with CO2 inside a plastic bag. It is the silent killer. With CO2, it is a matter of concentration. Normal levels of CO2 absolutely needed for life are at 350 parts per million. Discomfort from CO2 concentration starts at 20,000 parts per million while it can become lethal at 50,000 parts per million. Inside a plastic bag using dry ice the CO2 levels can reach 900,000 parts per million, That's almost pure CO2, totally devastating and yet contained in a plastic bag. And there is no damage done by the dry ice as it sublimates directly from solid dri ice to CO2 gas without going in the liquid state. Extreme cold is something to be careful of and dry ice should not be manipulated without gloves. In using it inside a plastic bag, dry ice should be separated from the items you want to kill the bedbugs out of. Extreme cold (minus 78°F)can make plastic brittle, use something isulating like a large thick folded towel to separate the dry ice from fragile items.
2x2x2 is the space that will be filled by a pound of solid dry ice. A larger space needs a proportional amout of dry ice, so a couch 6"8" wide by 3'0" deep and 2'8" high will give you a space of 53,3 cubic feet. Divide it by 8 cubic feet for each pound of dry ice required and it will give you 6,66 pounds of dry ice. It does not have to be precise, keeping in mid that it is better to have too much CO2 than too little and 7 or even 8 pounds of dry ice is better for a couch that size. Treating a couch with dry ice? Yes, just wrap it and throw dry ice in it. In a few hours, anything inside the bag will be dead. What else can we treat with dry ice? Anything you please, kills bedbugs, causes no damage. Totally safe as soon as you open the bag as the CO2 will flow down on the floor and dissipate in the air.
If I hadn't found me, you would have found out some other way. Each of us making bedbug traps our own way was bound to happen, There are no big secret in defeating bedbugs, just common sense. Use what you got and watch them carefully, they will tell you what works and what does not work on them. One thimg I learned is that it is a stupid insect that has only one source of food. What happens when we take it away from them? Stupid bedbugs do not deserve all the hype interested parties give them. An insect that is bigger than life is good for business, but not for me, I had enough of their poisoned market and you could have done the same thing as me.
Jules
Jules, thank you for such detailed answers. Do you think self adhering plastic would work? I found a piece 2 ft by 50 ft that sticks to carpet. I wonder if I used a fitted sheet and taped this to the sides of the mattress and box springs. Would they get stuck in the sticky side if they crawled on it?
I've been meaning to get back to you and thank you for such a detailed and helpful response. I've been trying to figure out the warm body situation and was wondering about a cat. Do bedbugs bite cats or do they crawl on and/or live on them? Also, there are some odds and ends over there... no furniture, but I was wondering how to use dry ice to kill them and eggs? Do you have a video on that or somewhere that you've gone over that? Thanks again, man... you're awesome!
@__Worldpark__Excellent. Now that you have a bedbug trap, get the next best thing, a bedbug shield that will stop all bites at once while the trap catches them while you will be able to sleep without a bite.
Get the link to "The Bedbug Shield" in the description box under this video to see how to make one. The Shield is an impenetrable barrier that no bedgug can get through or around, it stop all bedbug and make them die of starvation. The trap and the shield eliminate 100% of all bedbugs.
There has to be more to this i need a part 2 im way to invested in the story now
So glad to this Channel is still up.
What a scam this bb industry is.
Plastic is all you need.
Watch all of Jules's videos is my advice.
@__Robbyn Ferris
With a mattress & box spring covers it becomes easy. All you need is a strip of plastic about 2 feet high and probably 24 feet long that you will tape all around the sides of the mattress cover with clear wrapping tape and leaving only one inch clearance to the floor. This will keep bedbugs from going around the covers you have, using the bed sheets as a bridge. I call that a bedbug Shield.
Your new set up will stop any and all bedbug bites at once and you will be able to use the bed as a heat trap, meaning that bedbugs will keep trying to get to you but will not be able to. They will be stuck under the covers and inside the plastic skirt, the only way out will be down to the floor where you will place your CO2 bedbug trap.
I have eliminated millions of bedbugs that way with the help of people like you in over 70 countries. Good luck... nah, you won't need luck, it works every time because you will use the superior attractant, yourself without getting a bite. Beedbugs not being able to feed simply starve to death.
so essentially I am making a bedskirt out of plastic? and where to I place the trap?
Yes, to keep bedbugs from being able to reach you and feed of your blood at night, a simple bedskirt made out of plastic ( about 2 feet wide by 25 feet long) and taped all around the sides of the matress will keep bedbugs away and will stop all bites at once. Cover the top of the matress with a regular contour sheet (the one with the elastic to hold it in place), and seal the top of the plastic to the fabric contour sheet which will make it much more comfortable than sleeping on a plastic top. Here is an example to make a bedbug shield: th-cam.com/video/8Wy-ry66A7U/w-d-xo.html
The traps go behind each leg of the bed, catching bedbugs which might be somewhere else in the room. Use a 2L recipe to split in four 500 ml bottles
JnSavedByTheBell bed bugs can survive up to a year because of a thing called Diapause it's basically hibernation but for bed bugs, they do it when an area gets too hot or below freezing there are other reasons but idk them
JnSavedByTheBell They live a year without feeding.
Bedbug traps use only the CO2 produced by fermentation. However, fermentation also produces alcohol. The alcohol content is about 10-12% and safe to drink. The flavor can be enhanced by using fruit juice instead of plain water and make a good quality homemade wine. Furthermore, distillation can turn the hooch into 20-25% alcohol content brandy. An extra for those who make CO2 traps to catch and eliminate bedbugs.
I replied down below, but I don't see it showing up. Anyway I thank you very much for the detailed instructions and help. The problem is that there is no power at the apartment which means no heat and no heat pads. Do you have any other suggestions? How about using dry ice? How much is safe to use at one time? I really appreciate you, man.
@__Gabe Hampton
I had the same problem, TH-cam showing only the first line of an answer or no answer at all. It seems that it has to do with the new way TH-cam is managing their template, but I am not complaining as long as it can get answers to your questions.
Well, no power means no heat to help us, so how about some natural bedbug attractant. See, bedbugs evolved on bats in cool low temperature caves. Any warm-blooded creature will attract bedbugs (that is what we are and bedbugs love it, they see it as a source of food), so in a vacant non-heated apartment, a warm-blooded animal will attract all bedbugs towards it. It is the second best lure besides us humans. Any small animal that has the same body temperature as us and exhale CO2 in their respiration will do it.
I made a Bedbug Trap with a little hamster. I did not publish it because I am not cruel to animals and I do not want people to hurt little hamsters (some might, 1 000 000 little hamsters die every year in laboratories), but the best bedbug hunters are hamsters. Really, they have a fine sense of smell and can go in the smallest spaces. They need 15 % protein and get it in nature from insects that they find in their roaming at night. My first little hamster is the one who found the bedbugs I had and that I made my bedbug traps to protect it from the exterminator.
But I do not want you to use a little hamster that way, they will end up sniffing and eating poison which will kill them. Instead, I want you to use a small animal that can live in a cage. A bird, a rabbit, even a hamster that can be safe and happy within the confines of a cage.
The cage must be out of reach of bedbugs, elevated from the floor with CO2 bedbug traps underneath it.
Because you cannot use heating pads, this little animal will serve as bait. Treat it well with ample supply of food and water and occasional visits to see if it doing okay. Check the CO2 pitfalls underneath it to see all the bedbugs it will have got rid of for you. It is the best Heat and CO2 bedbug trap, second only to human ones.
I have shared a secret with you and for anybody who might be reading this, be nice to these little animals that will help you to get rid of a disgusting parasite.
Thank you
JulesNoise
Was that peanut butter and jelly sealing the straw?
@__Patrick Batemanist__2/5__A bedbug Shield is a simple barrier that no bedbug can cross. It stops any bedbug from being able to feed on your blood. It is easy to do and cost less than 10$. It is a plastic barrier that keeps any bedbug from being able to bite. A bedbug shield and a CO2 bedbug trap will stop all bedbug bites at once and eliminate any bedbug infestation. I proved this with tens of thousands of people and eliminated millions of bedbugs in 70 countries around the world.
Day 2 with not one bed bug in the trap I made. Thinking maybe I did it wrong or maybe the yeast is no good.
Going to buy new yeast today & try again! It says7-8 grams yeast added to the lukewarm water & 2 cups of sugar. How full should you fill the bottles? I didn't fill them full to close to the top as I thought the yeast would rise & fill the bottle to the top. I filled them a little over 3/4 full. I am buying vapor also today & will give that a go. I heard they don't like tea tree oil & to rub that on my bed. My bed is a antique bed with feet & I have not Used the box spring since the day I bought my new mattress. My son added a large piece of plywood to replace the box spring so it is not so high up for me. We raise the mattress often to see if there is any bed bugs & nothing. Thought maybe it wasn't bed bugs but read up on it of how they bite in patterns of 3 & that is exactually how it looks all over my body. I surely appreciate all the help you are suggesting to me. I will keep you updated to how it is going.
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Pat Des_________ “Day 2 with not one bed bug in the trap I made. Thinking maybe I did it wrong or maybe the yeast is no good.
Going to buy new yeast today & try again! It says7-8 grams yeast added to the lukewarm water & 2 cups of sugar.”
JulesNoise_________ Not catching any bedbugs with the trap can depend on many different things.
• It could be the recipe; it could be how we make it.
• It could be how the trap is built and where it is placed on the floor.
Here is the link to the Recipe: julesnoise.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/c02-bedbug-trap-__-recipe9.jpg. Maybe you could compare how you made your mix and the ways to see if it is working or not on the same.
If you had bedbug bites all over your body everywhere, you have a large colony somewhere. The places where we rest or sleep are the places where we get bit the most, that’s when bedbugs come out of hiding to bite us, and they bite only when we are not moving.
Bedbugs are mostly in the bed and in the couch, they tend to stay close to us and hide mostly we rest or sleep. Our beds and couches are their nursery. Taking care of these two places takes care of the whole infestation. CO2 bedbug traps on the floor and under a bedbug shield is like a magnet for bedbugs, a magnet that catch and suffocate them and also make them starve to death. There is more about these two places below with your antique bed and the vapor plastic.
You probably will need 8 traps to cover the both places where you get bedbug bites. Using traps similar to the one above (Easiest and Fastest Bedbug Trap ever) allows you to make four traps with a 2L mixture.
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Pat Des_________ “How full should you fill the bottles? I didn't fill them full to close to the top as I thought the yeast would rise & fill the bottle to the top. I filled them a little over 3/4 full”
JulesNoise_________ Your hunch was right. We need a space on top of the brew to collect the CO2, we also do not want the bottles to run over and make a mess. A little over ¾ full is good and will give you enough mixture for five traps instead of four.
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Pat Des_________ “I am buying vapor also today & will give that a go”
JulesNoise_________ Vapor is good. It is usually thick enough to resist wear and tear and does not fold and wrinkles like other plastic do. The smoothest it is, the more difficult it is for bedbugs to climb on it.
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Pat Des_________ “I heard they don't like tea tree oil & to rub that on my bed”
JulesNoise_________ Tree tea oil is a weak repellent for bedbugs. It will push them away further than they normally do but it will not stop them from coming back. Their hunger is greater than the discomfort of a oil.
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Pat Des_________ “My bed is an antique bed with feet & I have not used the box spring since the day I bought my new mattress. My son added a large piece of plywood to replace the box spring so it is not so high up for me. We raise the mattress often to see if there is any bed bugs & nothing”
JulesNoise_________ Great bed, we will simply make it bedbug-proof. A large piece of plywood and no box spring makes it easy to install a permanent bedbug shield. We can use the frame of the bed to make a barrier that no bedbug can get through:
• Cut a piece of plastic to fit inside the frame and place it flat on the plywood.
• Seal the plastic to the inside of the frame, leaving no holes bedbugs could get through.
• On the outside of the frame and all around the bed, fix and adjust a plastic skirt hanging down about one inch above the floor.
This skirt is there to keep bedbugs from reaching the bed sheets sideways while the plastic inside the frame of the bed keeps bedbugs from being able to climb directly. With the skirt around the bed and the plastic on the plywood as a shield, no bedbugs can get to you while you sleep soundly at night.
As for the parts of the bed which are above the shield (headboard and footboard), they can be cleared of bedbugs by applying two coats of liquid wax that will entomb any bedbugs or eggs hiding in the joints and cracks. The wax will fill the joints and the cracks, bedbugs will be buried by the wax and will die within a few hours.
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JulesNoise_________ We cannot know if it was bedbugs or not until we find a specimen, but very few insects leave bites all over the body. No matter if it was bedbugs or not, the shield will stop just about any crawling insect, except the flying ones and the ones to small to detect with the naked eye. Either way you will not lose anything as the bedbug shield can catch and trap the very first bedbug if you ever bring one home inadvertently. The bedbug shield is permanent bedbug protection and will stop any bedbug from making an infestation. You will never be bothered by bedbugs again.
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Pat Des_________ “I surely appreciate all the help you are suggesting to me. I will keep you updated to how it is going. »
JulesNoise_________ This is a long reply, please be patient. In my next email to you, I will show you how to make a bedbug shield for a couch. Once the shield will be done, we will then work on the traps and make them work. Then we will talk again about the bedbug barriers. First start with the shield of the bed, it is the most important part because it stops all bedbug bites at once. If we do not feed the bedbug, it cannot molt and cannot lay eggs, and most importantly, it kills bedbugs by starving them to death and that is what we desire.
Take good care of yourself, starting by eliminating bedbugs
JulesNoise_________
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@__ Pat Des __ I forgot a detail, the mattress. If you make a shield that goes directly on the plywood inside the bed frame, the mattress may have some bedbugs in it. A mattress can be cleared of bedbugs using 91% rubbing alcohol. It is a laborious process that cannot guarantee that there will not be any surviving bedbugs. Instead and much easier to do is to use two contour sheet, one on each side of the mattress and sealed together all around the sides of the mattress with duct tape. The two contour sheets taped together will form a sealed bag around the mattress, a mattress encasement. That is a very comfortable way of making your bedbug shield. You will be able to use your bed without worrying about bedbugs, heal from your actual bites and in 2-3 bedbugs there will be hardly any traces of bedbugs. The shield on the bed will be permanent and you will never be bothered by bedbugs again.
JulesNoise
I have the mattress in a bed bug cover i bought from one of those department stores,along with the pillow covers,i also caulked every crack in the walls and windows,so im puzzled as to where they come from,also i only find one every night,so i don't think i have an infestation yet,what do you suggest i do next?
@__ Charaf Lahbiki ___ The bedbugs are coming from the box spring or the bed frame. There might be other bedbugs somewhere in the room, and when they come out to feed, they use the bed legs to climb in the bed. As for the mattress cover, bedbugs easily get around it by using the bed sheets to get to the top of the mattress where you sleep.
Bedbug covers can only encase bedbugs in the mattress and do nothing for bedbugs outside the mattress cover. The bedbugs that are not entombed are free to get to you and to feed at will. They simply go elsewhere and make another harborage from which they will continue to harass you and keep biting you.
These mattress encasement are made by plastic manufacturers that know nothing about the bedbug and basically they sell a bagthat catch a few bedbugs and let the others roam at will. There are millions of people using these encasements and they all end up with a full infestation, it is a very profitable business.
Caulking is the same. We feel that caulking every crack and crevice will get us rid of bedbugs, but is it useless work. If filling the cracks give a few less places for bedbugs to hide, they simply move to a next one or to the underside of the furniture where they are not seen anymore. Caulking is okay to do renovation and make the place neat and clean, but it does not deter bedbugs from stalking us from another place near where we sleep.
But we will use it. In my previous reply, I talked about a bedbug shield, you still need that. But this time we will fix it (duct tape) to the sides of the cover instead of the sides of the mattress. It is that plastic skirt that is missing to make a mattress cover to work like a shield. It is because bedbugs can get around it that the mattress cover fails. So the vertical plastic skirt corrects that weakness of the mattress cover by keeping bedbugs from coming out the sides of the bed, and hang to the bed sheets and up on to you while you sleep at night. Bedbugs can’t obviously cannot get through the bed cover, and they cannot get through the plastic sides (skirt) either. The seam joining the two is also sealed by the duct tape. With only a space of one inch above the floor, no bedbug can climb down and try to make it to the edge of the plastic without falling down to the ground where the traps are (or will be)
As soon as you will have that skirt in place, all bedbug bites will immediately stop and for good. You will not get another bedbug bite again. With the shield on the bed (your bed cover becomes a shield with the plastic skirt), bedbugs cannot molt and the bedbugs stop growing. And bedbugs cannot lay eggs either; they absolutely need blood to do that. But the best is that they cannot last longer than the shield and the traps and bedbugs stuck under the shield die of starvation.
And all is possible because of that plastic skirt. Doesn’t it make you wonder that bed cover manufacturers do not know about that?
With a shield on your bed and CO2 traps on the floor, you will be able to sleep soundly and without a bite again. In a few weeks, all bedbugs will be dead, but it is better to leave the shield in place longer than any bedbug can live and that is three months. No it is not a year as mattress encasement manufacturers say.
If you found only one bedbug every night or so, you are lucky, you are at the beginning of an infestation that hasn’t matured yet and before a colony matures most bedbugs if not all of them are still in the bed. The signs of a mature infestation is multiple bedbug bites every day and stating to see round red bedbugs crawling blindly on the wall during the day and that is when the real bedbug nightmare begins. A light (beginning) infestation can be cleared out in a matter of weeks without all the hassle of scattered bedbugs in the room. In a light infestation it is the shield that catches most bedbugs and starves them to death.
Meanwhile Charaf sleeps soundly in her bed at night without getting a single bite. Peace of mind.
Now we have all the time in the world to make the traps (if not already done) and relax until there are no more bedbugs. Only one last thing is missing, a calendar where you could align the days without bites and get a long series of zero which will end by your own declaration:”I’m bedbug free!”
Have fun and enjoy your victory because with a shield and traps, you already won.
JulesNoise
@@JnSavedByTheBell I'ma try this
How long do the CO2 generators remain potent in releasing the carbon dioxide that attracts the bed bugs? For instance if I use the 2 liter bottle approach or the 4 "500" ml bottles, how long will those generators attract bedbugs before they have to be discarded and make new ones? Thank you for all this information you have so generously shared.
Its based on how much sugar you add to how long it will last
@@chronojeremy No where did it show any sugar!!! What else did it not show.I can't imagine bed bugs liking sugar water.
thank you so much for your videos i already tossed my old bed and frame unfortunately and bought a new one, already got a bed bug cover/shield and im going to make your traps to kill off whatever else lingers ill keep you updated on progress thanks again for simple and informative video. i love that the trap is inexpensive and common household products
@__Ronnie Franco__If you got a new bed, I suggest that you put a band of 1/2 scotch tape around each leg and these tapes will become barriers that bedbugs cannot cross. Hard shiny scotch tape make the perfect bedbug barriers. Bedbugs are climbers but on smooth slippery vertical surfaces, bedbugs slip, slide, lose their grip and fall to the floor where we put the CO2 bedbug traps.
These barriers can be used on any object and/or furniture to keep bedbugs from being able to climb up. Above the baseboards of the walls, they keep bedbugs from being able to climb up right up to the ceiling, out of dressers, pictures and frames, electric switches and electrical outlets, closets or any storage space. You might have seen this, but it is live bedbugs trying and failing to get a grip on such a tape barrier: th-cam.com/video/I5sFz9jC-nQ/w-d-xo.html
Using barriers is closing the door on bedbugs. They can go down but they can't go back up. Barriers can clear the whole room out of bedbugs without having anything else to do. No heavy-duty clean-ups, no moving around everything, put everyting in plastic bags, throw away things, live under siege and chase bedbugs by the flashlight at night. And it is done without poison, the shield and the traps like a magnet for bedbugs, drawn under the shield to try to climb up in the bed and lured into the CO2 traps where they suffocate and starve to death, and right down to the last one. All bedbugs have to feed and all bedbugs can be killed by starvation. Without our warm blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot molt or cannot lay eggs and bedbugs simply cannot survive without our blood to feed them.
They remain on the floor where the traps are and where is is the most dangerous for them. A roll of 1/2" scotch tape costs about one dollar to make all of the bedbug barriers you want and still have some leftover. Btw, "professionals" will disapprove using scotch tape that way, there is no money to be made by telling people how to get rid of bedbugs by themselves!
When you say "bed bug cover/shield", it could be a simple sheet of plastic draped over the mattress cover and hanging down like a skirt all around the bed. It is a no-cut, no-seam bedbug shield. Or it could be a long sheet of plastic, about 2 feet wide by 25 feet long, taped to the sides of the cover you already have, and that plastic skirt hanging down almost to the floor would make a perfect shield, easier to handle, hardly visible when the bed is made and staying in place unlike plastic on plastic that can slide.
Bedbugs are not worth the money they ask to "manage" them. Do not feed bedbugs and you will be rid of them. Do not give them any money, Ronnie, and you will also be rid of them.
JulesNoise
+Ronnie Franco Hod did it turn out?
@__Lisamarie656__The fermentation mixture lasts 2-3 weeks. When the brew produces CO2, it is whitish and cloudy, forming tiny bubbles on top od the liquid. 2-3 weeks later it becomes spent and turns clear like lemonade and it is time to make another mix.
No idea what I've seen here. I seen pointing. Heard whistles, moans and grunting and seen odd hand movements. Not one word spoken to explain anything.
@__Lollygalliler__1/3__Talcum powder is one of the best defenses against bedbugs. Bedbugs are climbers and have double filament hooks at the end of their legs. They climb on fibrous or rough surfaces because of those hooks but they have a hard time on hard and smooth surfaces they cannot hook into, the ultimate bedbug barrier is glass. Porcelain and polished metal are as just as good to stop bedbugs. Other smooth surfaces can stop bedbugs if it is made too slippery for the bedbug to hang on to.
@__Patrick Batemanist__5/5__Feel free to ask any other question and please be persistent, you will help others. I want to kill bedbugs and I want you to be my eyes and my hands to stop and eradicate that vermin. From Quebec City, I'm JulesNoise and I want you to be bedbug free. Good night, sleep tight and with your help, don't let the bedbug bite.
You are right for the most part,i been fermenting for almost 6years you are right about the alcohol content for the most part it is in need that much if you are using bread making yeast you can actually receive 20-25% alcohol if you are using good quality of fermenting the strain of yeast determines how much how fast and how fast alcohol will be produced.My washes actually produce around 20% alcohol after one distill the content goes up to 40%.
Now I just use dining room chairs as my bed. Lay some nice covers on the seats for my back. That's how stressed I am with these creatures. What if I used CO2 traps & sit the chair legs on some sticky traps as well as using myself as bait. Will that work?
@__General19791
Yes, it does work that way. You guessed the basic idea of how to set-up and make your own bedbug traps. CO2 traps placed on the floor and underneath the bed (dining room chairs in your case) with sticky tape under the chair legs (or a bedbug shield if you want to use your bed again).
• The CO2 traps will catch bedbugs on the move, going towards you and trying to climb up on the legs of the chairs.
• The sticky tape will keep bedbugs down on the floor while you sleep above, hopefully without a bite.
It is a simple method that will keep bedbugs from being able to feed and will break their life cycle. The traps will catch the bedbugs coming out of hiding when they get hungry. Since they do not have anything else but your blood to feed on, the bedbugs will keep trying and the sticky tapes will block their path while the traps lure them into glass pitfalls from which they cannot get out of. After a few feeding cycles, all bedbugs will have tried to feed and failed, all will be caught by the traps.
Sleeping on dining room chairs must be uncomfortable and deprives you of sleep. I suggest that you go back to your bed and use a bedbug shield to keep bedbugs from being able to reach and bite you. A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier made with a simple fitted sheet placed directly on the mattress and to which we fix (duct tape) a plastic skirt that goes down almost to the floor and goes all around the bed. Bedbugs cannot go or bite through the fabric fitted sheet and they cannot get through the hanging plastic skirt or get across it near the floor. All bedbugs are stopped and get stuck underneath the shield to slowly die of starvation while you sleep soundly above the shield and without a single bite. That’s the first thing that happens when you use a shield, all bedbug bites stop at once. No more bites. That’s what you are trying to do by using sticky tape under chair legs, keep bedbugs from being able to bite you. The bedbug shield does the same thing but to perfection allowing you to reclaim your bed and sleep on it as if there were no bedbugs.
• You will find an example of how to make your own bedbug shield at: The Bedbug Shield
• See the “Bedbug Free” page of the CO2 Bedbug Trap website at: julesnoise.com/2014/02/05/4/
• The recipe to make CO2 for the traps you saw in the TH-cam video is at: julesnoise.com/665-2/
Give me some feedback once you have your set-up in place.
JulesNoise
ASmoothTransitRider 5713 $400 a gallon of clove oil is hardly a solution but for the rich that can afford this beautiful floor and bed, they can probably afford it, but it won't work as long as the bed trap. Nowhere close. Clove oil dissipates eventually. Issues are the poor can be severely populated with bed bugs before they know it and my entire apart building has them, always coming back. The people here all live with bugs and think if they clean very hard and just have a few bites or only one bug, it's acceptable....That's Mexican immigrants in section 8 housing...they live with it. They actually think throwing furniture out will solve their problem and once a week you see another sofa and some tables tossed outside. They need someone that speaks spanish to teach them. I tried to give them papers....they can't read them and their kids were taught about the bugs in school and think they already have the answers.
I dream of catching them in the walls or coming in the front door or windows....that would be so interesting to catch them in progress in the walls.
They sneak from the hallway and get all the way across the carpet without me seeing them and late at night they bite. they were waiting, sitting still they wait near where they know you sleep on a regular bases so they are coming if your regular.... at the way station which was under the computer and printer tables....they sit there in any dark crevice and wait for the best late night smell from you. I put the furniture in the bathtub at 120 degrees and collected the bugs and put them in a bowl. Several days later I was staring into the bowl and a newborn began crawling like a maniac smelling my blood, he began to crawl this way and that way looking for me. Eggs survive hot water. I think the egg was in the mother this time and came out after boiling the mother. Normally mom who doesn't do much other than suck blood and lay eggs is kind enough to her offspring to lay eggs where humans sit around regularly.
This bed is critical in summer hot weather. People don't want to sleep with all their clothes on but long sleeves, socks, and tucked in pants and a bug headcover and gloves also does the trick in colder months, but you can't type on your computer at night with come gloves on and the bugs love the back of the wrists or a back where your shirt isn't tucked in. All sofa's and chairs need tape and plastic too.
CIME EX didn't do much. I got 5 gallons. Dumped it an inch thick on half the carpet....the bugs crawl over it and around it. A couple die the other's keep on crawling. It destroys my hands, like it should kill them but didn't seem to do as much as I was promised. Helps a little but I see bug holes in the white powder on the floor, something burrowed out.
The hardest part was the unconscionable situations where you might spread the bugs or a neighbor doesn't realize or care if they are spreading the bugs.
Moving into storage for a year before you move into a place could be a solution but wow, if everyone just stopped the bites, it would end this nightmare, except on busses and the places where the homeless keep camping.
I think people need to wear bug suits, like all over the place.
JnSavedByTheBell What's the best double side sticky tape and what's the link for it?
You are right. The straw does not need to be sealed to the bottle. Since Co2 is heavier than air, any little amount of co2 that gets out will trickle down into the bowl anyway.
Excellent insight, it helps to make the trap even easier. Thank you.
Ok I get they walk up the paper towel , fall in the glass & can't get out , but what do the bottles and straws do ???
When the water evaporates it creates c02 which is what they are attracted to. They are also attracted to histamine which is in our blood.
@Peter Wexler the water has a mixture of sugar and yeast which then gives off cO2.
It is carbonated water. They have no mixture. Its the co2 that leaves the carbonatet water that attracts them. You also breathe out co2.
create carbon dioxide which is what they are attracked to your body emits this and that is what they ar4e attracked by
This video is about making the trap itself. A bottle, a straw, a glass, a piece of paper towel with a rubber band are all it takes to make a bedbug trap. Fast, inexpensive and easy.
The brew, a mixture of yeast and sugar in lukewarm warter produces CO2 to attract bedbugs in a glass is demonstated in another video that uses plastic instead of straw to bring the CO2 into a basket made out of plastic. The recipe can also be found in the website. The link is in the description box under this video.
Thanks for clearing that up for me man,i just doubled checked you are completely correct it is legal to brew for personal use but not legal to distill,one thing i found weird was that it said at the age of 18 you or older you can produce beer but if you are selling you have to be of legal age to sell it before you produce it and also it states that you can not use it for organized affairs i guess there worried about someone selling leftover from a party when its over.
Thanks for your response. I encased my bed in plastic. i hope i did it right. the plastic is about two inches from the floor and below the wood frame.
1- if they are in the wood frame, can they climb down the inside plastic and then up the plastic? or is it too slippery
I made the generator. but didn't have enough sugar so only had enough for two full ones with (4) .5 liter bottles and one with one. will make more tonight. did catch anything but i got done late around 3AM and was up at 7.
Hello, kind sir. I've been reading some of your posts and had a couple questions for you. When doing the dry ice treatment, is that harmful to leather items such as boots, shoes, bags, etc.? I wouldn't want to ruin the leather. Also, does that kill all eggs as well? Thanks a lot for your help.
@__Henry Howgs Hi,The only possible damage from dry ice is close proximity to other items inside the plastic "bag". A few inches away from the dry ice, the temperature drops down to a whopping minus 70°F , quickly getting to slightly below room temperature 6-12 inches away. The freezing cold is only at very close proximity. You can test it by handling dry ice with gloves which is highly recommended to protect you from frost bites.
So if you place the dry ice on the floor (or in a metal container) and in or on a piece of insulating material or a folded shower towel, a space away from the items you want to clear out of bedbugs, there will be no damage whatsoever to the items inside the plastic bag that gets only slightly cool.
You can use the same technique with most everyting. Electronics are easily cleared of bedbugs with this dry ice technique (keeping the dry ice from making contact), stored away items that might harbor bedbugs can be treated and re-used safely again the next day
Dry ice in a plastic bag is a bedbug killer that needs no pestiucide, no special training and causes no damage with that simple precaution.
Yes,dry ice kills bedbug eggs as well as all the other stages of bedbug growth. Bedbugs first die from CO2 suffocation or oxygen depravation, but the CO2 levels keep rising even if bedbugs are already dead, until the CO2 concentrations reach almost 99% (bedbugs suffocate at 30%). This is due to the fact that dry ice is pure CO2 in solid form and when it sublimates into gas, it stays and accumulate at the bottom of the bag, pushing all the air out from the only opening on top of the plastic bag. Eggs do not die of suffocation but of CO2 poisoning which seeps through their permeable shells. At near pure concentrations, CO2 is lethal on contact bedcause it draws oxygen from the insects and also their eggs.
CO2 and its incomplete form CO is known as the silent killer. It is lethat only inside the plastic bag. As soon as you open the plastic, it dissipate and mixes with the air and the concentrations almost immediately drop down to normal, totally harmless since it is the leveles that we breathe in and out twelve times a minute and during our whole life.
Let it be known, concentrated CO2 kills bedbugs and their eggs.
@__TheDevilsGarden__You are right, no magic is involved. Everything about the trap is based on facts and knowledge.
Fact, bedbugs are attracted to CO2. Fact, fermentation produces CO2. Knowledge, how to make a trap that will use fermentation to produce CO2.
Two and two makes four, that's how you make a bedbug trap.
Excellent, TheDevilsGarden, I give you a 10.
The bed bug shield works. I never caught anything with the traps, but the shield stops all bites and they die within 8 weeks.
Ok so ill try every two weeks then,if i get near it i can hear it bubble,so im assuming it's working.I'm still going to make the shield tomorrow,also can you please make a video on how to make the wall barrier with the tape and the baby powder,forgive me if im asking alot of questions,im just freaked out,this is the first time im getting these bugs and have kids in the house,so im worried especially when the baby was bitten last week.thank you again sir.
Hello Charaf Lahbiki,
Don’t worry about asking a lot of questions, that’s what I’m here for. The more you know about the bedbugs and how to get rid of it, the better off you will be. It is a simple insect that leaves us perplexed because we do not know why it is so elusive and why it keeps coming for our blood.
I made the trap using those behaviors, using their strengths and weaknesses against it. The greatest strength of a bedbug is its ability to hide, nobody can find bedbugs once they have invaded our space, most people cannot even recognize them when they see them; the younger ones are very small and nearly transparent, often mistaken for a very tiny drop of dew. Adults are easier to spot, reddish-brown and the size of an apple seed, in the mind of most people that is what a bedbug looks like but there are five other sizes that most people are not aware of.
But we do not need an entomology course to get rid of bedbugs, once you discover that you have bedbugs, the first thing to do is what we should do with all other species of annoying insects, block them and keep them from feeding. It works with all insects and the bedbug is no different. As an example, if you get mosquito bites, the first thing you will do is to put a net over the bed so you can sleep peacefully without a bite, or even better, put a screen in the window and no mosquito will be able to bite you. It is the same thing with the bedbug, but since it does not fly but crawls, the net should be placed directly over the bed instead of above it.
I call it a bedbug shield, an impenetrable barrier placed between the bedbugs and ourselves. With a bedbugs shield, no bedbug can reach us and cannot bite us. By taking their only source of food away from them, bedbugs can only survive for a few weeks and at most three months. All we have to do is to make the shield on the bed and wait for bedbugs to starve to death while we sleep soundly without a single bite. It works every time, it is a law of nature.
Yes, you can assume it is working, it did work for tens of thousands of people so far and the demands are increasing all the time because those who used the traps and the shield tell others. I have an army of bedbug-free people that you are actually joining by getting rid of your bedbugs, and when you will be satisfied, I know you will also tell others. Again, that’s what I’m here for, to spread this knowledge how to deal with bedbugs all around the world. So you see, I do not mind your questions, I welcome them.
I’m the voice of reason in this mad world of the miserable bedbug. My only goal is to eradicate them and once this knowledge will be known far and wide, the bedbug will not be the threat it is today. One by one, we will eliminate the bedbug.
I’m particularly protective of babies, we do not raise kids to be food for parasites, no more than you should be. The only safe way to get rid of bedbugs is to keep them from feeding.
• Without our blood, the bedbug cannot molt and grow.
• Without our blood, the bedbug cannot lay eggs and multiply.
• Without our blood, the bedbug simply cannot survive and die of starvation.
I would like to follow your progress and remain available if you have any difficulties or other questions. Please describe how you will make the shield for your baby’s bed (or crib) and I could point out the easy ways to do it or its weaknesses, if any.
I will make that video about the wall barriers and explain why it works but most importantly, how we can use it to make any place impervious to bedbugs and prevent any future infestation.
With a bedbug shield, bedbug traps and bedbug barriers, you will be armed to the teeth against bedbugs and you will never have bedbugs again.
If you want to feed someone for a day, give him a fish. But if you want to feed him his whole life, show him how to fish.
With all my respect
JulesNoise
Okay, I’m stumped. Please provide some clarification. What’s the liquid in the bottles? Why is the glass covered with a paper towel? What’s used to seal the straws to the bottles?
The hotel I work out discovered they had bed bugs. Does this trap get rid of all of them if I do it daily and leave it in the room for a few weeks? How many weeks do you recommend? What about the eggs and babies all over and in between the mattress? I think there were about 20 to 30 of them from what I saw so its a pretty bad infestation. There was alot of staining of the mattress too,
@ __Wanda Stephens__4/6__Ordinary water bottles are light and easily knocked over. They are filled with water to make them easier to handle. When the trap is ready, empty the water and replace it with the sugar/yeast mixture. There is another video that shows how to do the mix: __ CO2 Bedbug Trap - Making CO2 __ You will also find a full description (recipe) in the tab “Making CO2” of the website.
@_Duipose__2/6__CO2 is heavier than air. It does not float or stay mixed with the air, it always flows down to the floor where it spreads in wisps and trails which attract bedbugs towards the bed. They could catch a few bedbugs on the bed but you could not sleep with a trap without knocking it over and getting soaked with sugar/yeast mixture. And the trap would have to stay there for months. Traps work best on the floor.
@__IlliniJournal__1/4__An office is a difficult place for bedbugs to infest. There is too much activity (bedbugs always wait until we are not moving to get on us, that's why bedbugs usually bite us while we sleep at night) and light during the day and nothing to feed on during the night. So there will be only a few bedbugs in places where they can feed daytime. Those places are where bedbugs can hide in close proximity to a person, usually the desk chair.
what did you put around the hole to make the straws stick to the bottle and where can i buy yeast
Caught my first little bugger!
@__Alex Green__ I agree. One can make inexpensive good quality house wine with yeast and sugar. Using fruit juices instead of water will give it pleasant natural flavors. Fermentation also produces CO2 as by-product and it is what is used to feed plants in aquariums. CO2 is a powerful attractant for blood-suckers as they detect us from the heat of our body and the CO2 contained in our breath. We use the CO2 to make deadly bedbug traps.
Thank you, sir for all you do! My mother is sort of a hoarder and has bought lots of things at estate and yard sales. She lives alone and now stays in bed except for the bathroom or the kitchen. When the bedbugs were first discovered, I scattered DE around and I think that helped a little, but now my concern is I need to sort, clean and pack up things in her house, but am afraid of hidden bugs. She now has a barrier on her bed (no bites thanks to you) and I don't think I made enough traps under her bed because a few bugs were found dead floating in water left in the tub. Do you think they were attracted to the water because they crawled on DE? How do I check if there are any in other rooms or ones hidden and hibernating since there are stacks and lots of stuff everywhere and also kill those as well? Thank you so much for your help!
@__Henry Howgs__I also am a pack rat, I love to collect all kind of things that I try to squeeze in all the other stuff I have. The DE you scattered around did help as DE is a proven bedbug killer that dries up bedbugs that walk in it in 3-7 days. Unfortunately, DE cannot eliminate all bedbugs and fighting bedbugs with DE is endless and makes you live constantly in dust.
I’m glad to hear that you made a barrier for her bed and that she does not have any more bites. You did the right thing and the most important one. The bedbug shield all by itself can stop and eliminate any bedbug infestation. But when you use it with traps, then the two can and do eliminate bedbugs right down to the last one.
You see, keeping bedbugs from being able to feed is the key to eliminate bedbugs. The bedbug shield stops all bedbug bites at once and let you sleep soundly without getting a bite.
• Bedbugs absolutely need blood to molt and get to their next stage of growth. Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot grow.
• Bedbugs absolutely need blood to lay eggs. Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs cannot lay eggs and multiply.
• Bedbugs absolutely need blood to survive. Without our blood to feed on, bedbugs simply wither and die of starvation.
This makes them hungry like hell and they do come out of hiding, no matter where they could be in the house. Then they go towards the bed, where your mother is resting, attracted by the warmth of her body. When they try to climb up on the legs of the bed, they detect the CO2 coming from the traps and follow it as they always do to find exactly where we are (CO2 mimics our respiration). But since this CO2 is coming from bottles instead of your mother, they end up into glass pitfalls from which they cannot get out. That is the bedbug traps on the floor and behind each leg of the bed.
Bedbugs already in the bed are stooped by the bedbug shield, an impenetrable barrier that no bedbug can get through or around it. It is the ultimate protection against bedbugs. Bedbugs under the shield are stuck in an impasse, unable to reach your mother no matter how hard they try. Bedbugs under a shield are helpless and will never feed (bite) again; they are doomed to die of starvation.
And that’s the good news. You do not have to sort, clean and pack up things in her house, let it be as it is. You now have the most powerful bedbug trap in the world. With a shield on her bed your mother is totally protected against bedbugs and get caught or stopped every time they try to get to her. Since all bedbugs have to feed, all bedbugs will come out of hiding and will be caught by the traps and stopped by the shield. Let them try and let the traps and the shield defeat them. I have done it thousands of time and never failed. It will be the same for your mother. Start living without worrying about bedbugs, the hidden ones will also come out of hiding and will also be caught or stuck just like all the other ones. It is their hunger that defeats bedbugs, every time they will try to get to your mother, the shield will stop them and they will remain stuck underneath it. With her shield, your mother will never be bothered by bedbugs again and by stopping them every time it will eliminate all bedbugs. Time is not important, as long as the shield is on the bed; all bedbugs are stopped and become helpless until they finally die of starvation.
The safest and easiest way to eliminate bedbug is with the bedbug shield. Remember the rhyme and its forgotten meaning, the way our grand-parents were eliminating bedbugs: “...don’t let the bedbug bite!”
As for the bedbugs you found in the tub, they were attracted to the remaining heat of the water and felt into it without being able to get out, the very same way they get into the glass pitfall and can’t get out of it.
To check in other rooms if there could be bedbugs is made with a bedbug trap. The CO2 bedbug trap acts as a monitor, attracting and catching bedbugs if there are any in the room. They can be caught by the trap in that room or they can make it out of the room and up to the bed to be either caught by the four traps under the bed or completely stopped by the shield where they will also die of starvation like the other bedbugs.
Tell me if what you call a barrier on your mother’s bed is similar to the bedbug shield I talk about in this message. The bedbug shield can be seen at: The Bedbug Shield.
Please feel free to contact me again if your need any other information.
With my respect for one who lovingly takes care of his mother
JulesNoise
JnSavedByTheBell
Thank you so much for the detailed info. You really helped to ease our worries. How many traps do I need to place in each room? I know you said I don't need to sort and pack, etc, but my mother wants me to help her get the house organized... how long should I wait before doing this? I don't want to spread them anywhere else in the house or to other houses. How long can they live without food? In making the traps, if I follow your "recipe" for the mix, can that mix be distributed in several traps or does that amount have to be in each trap? Also, how long do you suggest keeping the plastic shield on the bed? Again, I really appreciate your help.
@__Henry Howgs__Normally four traps, one behind each leg of the bed is enough to attract and catch bedbugs because they all go towards the bed when the forage to find their food (our blood). But you can use as many traps as you want in strategic positions or where you suspect bedbugs might be. It is the same logic as using many lines if you go fishing. The more lines you have, the more chance you have to catch fish (or bedbugs). And usually it is not a big deal since traps are so inexpensive that you can make as many as you want without making a drain on your budget.
I understand wanting to sort out, pack and clean all the stuff accumulated and get things organized. You do not need to do it because bedbugs will come out of hiding all by themselves, but you can do that any time you want if it is what you wish. As long as you have a working shield on the bed, you still have the full protection of the shield, no bites whatsoever no matter where bedbugs are, so if in the course of sorting out, packing, cleaning and any other activity that you fear might scatter bedbugs, there is no need to worry. What will happen if you disturb a dormant bedbug and make it move elsewhere in the room? Well, not much will happen. That bedbug first of all will come out of dormancy and that’s a good thing, it will then look for the warm spot in the room and try to get to it by crawling on the floor. Once it will get close, it will detect the CO2 coming from the traps and follow it only to fall in the glass pitfalls behind the legs of the bed. If the bedbug succeeds in avoiding the trap (improbable) it will go under the shield where it will really be stuck without any hope of being able to bite. That bedbug that was dormant and scattered from your activities will only join all the other bedbugs that are helpless under the shield.
That is why I said that you do not need to go into heavy sorting, packing and cleaning work. No matter if bedbugs remain dormant in hiding or if they are active (searching for food), the shield protects your mother against them all. You can do whatever you want in the house, with or without bedbugs; they all end up in the traps and under the shield. That’s how the trap works, it gathers bedbugs in a single place where they become helpless, totally helpless no matter what you do or not. The bedbug shield is the ultimate defense against bedbugs. It is so good that once it will have eliminated all bedbugs, if you leave it in place, it will prevent any other bedbug from ever being able to bite and start another infestation. With a bedbug shield you remain bedbug free forever.
• Bedbugs can live without food only for a few weeks if they remain active (in the bed and under the shield, close to the heat of our body).
• Bedbugs can live up to three months if they remain dormant. The best way to shorten their lives is to wake them up with sorting, packing and cleaning activities. Active bedbugs spend more energy and die sooner of starvation since they cannot get blood anymore.
• Bedbugs can live without food up to 6-9 months if they go in hibernation (bedbugs rarely hibernate and only in near-freezing temperatures. So it is rare because our houses are heated in winter time).
That tells you how long you should keep the shield on the bed. The shield must remain on the bed longer than any bedbug can live without food. Now for a comfortable long time use of the shield, it is best to use a normal contour sheet directly on the mattress instead of a plastic top, using only plastic to make the skirt that hang down all around the bed. The plastic skirt can be fixed to the sides of the mattress and adjusted one inch above the floor and then the contour sheet can be placed on the mattress and sealed to the plastic skirt using white duct tape that cling well to both fabric and plastic. A bedbug shield made that way can stay on the bed for a long time without any discomfort for the person using the bed. It is no big deal to use a shield made of both fabric for the topside and plastic for the sides as you hardly notice it and even forget that it is on after a while.
To a previous comment, you do not need the dry ice procedure; all bedbugs will be eliminated by the traps and the shield. Of course you could do it if you want but it is needed only if you are bent on eliminating as many bedbugs as possible as soon as you can. On the other hand, we are not in a hurry as long as the shield stops all the bites and bedbugs take their time to come out of hiding. The traps and the shield last longer than any bedbugs, so give yourself a break and let bedbugs eliminate themselves at their own pace. Meanwhile you simply do not care about bedbugs, they are helpless and unable to bite
“Good night, sleep tight and like I keep saying, don’t let the bedbugs bite” Trust the shield.
We have platform beds in the the apartment,when i make the plastic shields tonight to block off these annoying little bastards,should i tape all the way down to the floor?or should i leave an inch off the floor like you did in your video?
@__ Charaf Lahbiki ___ It is important to leave an inch. It allows bedbugs from the room to get under the bed and be attracted by traps. It is also a guarantee that bedbugs cannot swing from the inside to the outside and then maybe succeed to get to the top. No, bedbugs do not bend that way and always fall down when they reach the edge of the plastic and right next to the traps on the floor. That plastic must be as long as possible, to ever keep the bed sheets from touching the sides of the bed and make a bridge bedbugs can use to get to the top, usually from mid-height of the mattress down to one inch above the floor (I like to call it a toe space),. The plastic is also important to keep the CO2 in the glasses of the traps from being blown out by possible drafts in the room. The plastic is like a skirt around the whole bed. The fabric fitted sheet on top keeps bedbugs from being able to directly climb up and the plastic skirt keeps bedbugs from being able to get out sideways and hang on to the bed sheets which are a direct highway for bedbugs.
Later, it will be possible to make changes to the skirt and make it look less obtrusive (translation: look better), The plastic is not a work of art, it is only meant to stop and starve bedbugs, but some people with imagination made some really interesting traps, still working like a bedbug trap but looking like a flower vase. Someone else used shower curtains to make her bed skirt, matching colors and motifs to fit the as if it is part of it. The funniest one I’ve seen is a miniature Bedbug Hotel placed in the hall of an apartment building.
Thanks for sharing. Please tell me how to cover a divan bed and where to place the trap.
@__Lollygalliler__2/3__Any vertical surface such as paint and plastic can be made too slippery for bedbugs to climb up on it by brushing it with talcum powder. Talcum powder is like snow on ice, too slippery for any climber to hang on to. Bedbugs cannot cross a simple ½” strip of scotch tape brushed with talcum powder. It keeps bedbugs from being able to climb up onto the legs of the bed, the legs of the furniture and onto the walls. Talcum powder is a bedbug barrier.
@ __Wanda Stephens__1/6__You did not miss anything; you are only trying to understand it. This video is about making a bedbug trap using the most common, most available and least expensive materials anybody, can find anywhere and most probably already have at home to make their own bedbug trap. A CO2 bedbug trap is a simple container (shape and size do not matter), to hold the yeast and sugar mixture that produces CO2. The CO2 is sent into a glass with a simple drinking straw.
I love that this looks so easy! Could you please give me the recipe for making the solution for the four little bottles? Thanks.
I saw your later comment, thanks for figuring out the solution by yourself, but here is the answer anyway. I have a
website that gives all the information about bedbugs and the traps, the recipe is there. It is called °The CO2 Bedbug
Trap°, it can also easily be found with the links under the videos or by Googling: °JulesNoise°.
@@JnSavedByTheBell Why do you make readers hunt for the information? Why not put it all right here in one video?
@__János Simon__Yes, you got it. With the knowledge that bedbugs are more short-lived that what is told us, it is reasonable to think that if you can keep them from feeding more than two months, all bedbugs will die of starvation.
The idea is that they have only one source of food and if you take that away from them with a shield over the bed and traps on the floor, you will be able to get rid of them permanently without getting a bite.
Simple yet totally efficient.
I'm done with my sheild.No more bites hopefully.Do I need to do the trap straight away?I don't have the ingredients and materials that I need.
Hi! Thank you for your help! Do you know if the dry ice procedure kills all bugs including brown recluse spiders or does it only work for bed bugs?
@__Jim Humphry__The dry ice procedure kills everything that is inside the plastic bag. CO2 is totally harmless when it is in an open space, we breathe in oxygen 12 times a minute and exhale CO2 from the moment we are born to our last breath, CO2 is part of the cycle of life.
But in enclosed spaces, CO2 accumulates in the bottom of the bag and pushes out oxygen through the tiny openings we make with a needle at the top or highest point of the plastic bag.
CO2, a normally invisible harmless gas comes in very cold solid state called dry ice when it is compressed and cooled down to minus 112°F. Placed inside a sealed plastic bag, dry ice sublimates, meaning it turns directly into gas without becoming liquid, and fills the bag, pushing all the oxygen out. When all the dry ice is "melted', there is no more oxygen inside the bag, only pure CO2.
Every single creature on the planet needs oxygen to survive, insects are no different. This pure CO2 becomes lethal inside the plastic bag, remaining totally safe outside this plastic bag, no effect. But inside the bag anything alive cannot breathe anymore. No matter if it is bedbugs, fleas, gnats. ants, mites, roaches, gnats, spiders or anything else that moves, CO2 kills everything inside the bag by suffocating them to death. CO2 is well known to asphixiate anything inside an enclosed space. Suicides by carbon dioxide are common in all parts of the world, it is also the main cause of death of fire-fighters. It is called the silent killer. Being aware how to use it to kill insects makes it totally safe to handle. Inside the plastic bag it is lethal because creatures cannot breathe. Outside the bag, it is totally harmless and is a life-giver.
If you are fighting brown recluse spiders, dry ice will not be of much use to you. Spiders will not stay in the bed and killing the few ones that might be in it will not take care of any spider outside the plastic bag. If the dry ice procedure works well on bedbugs it is because bedbugs stay in the bed where you can enclose them in plastic, spiders are different and do not make their harborage in the bed and mattress.
To fight spiders, the best non-poisonous method is steam. All insects die at relatively low temperatures. Bedbugs start to die at 113°F, spiders might endure slightly higher temperatures but no insect survives temperatures of 120-130°F. First start with thorough vacuuming to eliminate most of the insects and their harborages, and then apply steam to all cracks and crevices where insects you missed might be hiding. It works for all insects.
It’s been a year since I saw my first bed bug, we had gone on Christmas vacation to a hotel and saw a bed bug I put everything in a bag n stripped out before getting to my door however my mom had also stayed at another hotel n she said it was the most beat up place brought bags inside my place n then took them out it wasn’t until 2 weeks later that I saw a giant bed bug on the corner of the arm rest n she had just laid eggs they were white grains with little legs I instantly threw the couch out and anything surrounding it my living room was bare I set up bombs and earth powder vacuumed several times and set up bed bug traps I haven’t been bit since or have even seen one it’s been a whole year any chance they are for sure gone???
You probably caught it in time. The vacuuming immediately helped since you only saw in one location. The bug bombs have been proven not to work at killing them (there have been some class action lawsuits regarding this claim) The Diatomaceous Earth WILL work! It has tons of uses and you can even ingest it. If you are extremely concerned, you could always put sticky traps near the legs of furniture or even wrap duct tape around legs of furniture (so the sticky part is facing outwards). I just came from staying in a place that had bed bugs. I’ve researched and researched. Unfortunately I noticed it after 3 nights at a friends house while pet sitting so she could go on vacation. The bug man came yesterday and sprayed so I got a lot of information from him. HEAT is also your best friend…. Put everything in dryer and turn on for at least 100 minutes. It doesn’t sound like you have any issues but I know how much stress and worry comes from something like this.
By fermentation, the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae converts carbohydrates to carbon dioxide and alcohol. For thousands of years the carbon dioxide has been used in baking and the alcohol in alcoholic beverages. This knowledge has been lost when we stopped making our own, buying manufactured products instead
But now we must re-learn it if we want to get rid of bedbugs. Variation in the amount of yeast will produce a slow or fast fermentation. Half a teaspoon seem ideal for bedbug traps.
Thank you, very informative video and the replies. But have some questions.
1. How about to put the sugar mix into actual glass? No bottle /straws needed.
2. Open can of carbonated drink inside of wider glass?
3. Just (a half can of) carbonated drink on its own?
P.S. Got a few bites after a motel but want to be prepared, just in case...
@__Ihtiandr13.__Putting the sugar and yeast mixture directly into the glass would work. Bedbugs could climb up on the paper towel on the outside of the glass, reach the rim of the glass and fall into the liquid. They will not drown but they will not be able to climb out of the glass either. CO2 will suffocate them just as it does in the traps made with a bottle and a straw.
A carbonated drink does not give off enough CO2 to attract bedbugs, nor that it last long enough, giving off its CO2 in only the first hours and becoming flat. Fermentation is much better because it lasts 2-3 weeks.
If you want to be really prepared against bedbugs, I suggest prevention. Making a bedbug shield will protect you against the very first bedbug, the one that produce the whole infestation. By stopping that very first bedbug will keep it from being able to bite. That very first bedbug is the mother of all bedbugs. It absolutely needs blood to lay eggs. Denying it your blood will stop any possibility of having more bedbugs. That bedbug will get stuck under the bedbug shield and will not be able to feed. It will stay under the shield and spend all its energy trying in vain to reach you on the other side of the shield and once all its energy will be spent, it will die of starvation. With a shield on your bed before you get a single bedbug, you will never even receive a bite and you will never be infested by bedbugs.
A bedbug shield is made with one of your contour sheet and a long plastic strip, about 2 feet wide by 25 feet long that is fixed to the sides of the mattress, like a plastic skirt hanging all around the bed, about one inch above the floor. Once the plastic skirt is in place, put the contour sheet directly on the mattress and seal it with duct tape (white) to the top part of the skirt. The very first bedbug will try to climb up on the bed from the floor, will reach the underside of the fabric contour sheet and will remain stuck there without any chance of being able to go up any further and will never be able to bite. The plastic skirt will keep it from being able to come out on the sides of the bed and use your sheets to get to the top and finally feed on your blood. It is an impasse for bedbugs and no bedbug can get through a shield or around it. It is the ultimate defense against bedbugs and it is prevention against any infestation. A bedbug shield makes you bedbug proof.
Here is the link to the bedbug shield: The Bedbug Shield
CO2 bedbug trap are placed behind each leg of the bed and under the bedbug shield. They work best along with the shield to stop and prevent any bedbug infestation. Used like that, I call them bedbug sentinels, catching bedbugs as they try to get up into the bed.
Make your own bedbug shield and you will never be bothered by bedbugs.
JulesNoise
@__mysticalwonder7__2/3__The bedbug does not get angry and cannot match the fury of a human. All you need is the right tools to take care of them. The traps, with a shield on the bed, and barriers on the walls and legs of furniture, eliminates all bedbugs, without leaving a single one behind while you sleep soundly without a bite
Reading either comments I can't help but think I'm missing something here. A lot of people mention yeast and sugar yet this isn't actually shown or mentioned in the video for this method. Do I need sugar and yeast for this method??
I have followed your video to the letter, and i'm wondering if i have done the yeast part wrong, (last night) meaning is there the wrong kind of yeast? I live in London UK on my second attempt (just now) I've used a 2L bottle water 240 Grams of white sugar 2 table spoons of dried active yeast 1 3rd boild water rest room temp straw etc
@__Stewart Harvey-Wilson__ Let's see. Your recipe must be adjusted to your needs. You are using only half the sugar with twice the amount of yeast of a normal formula, which speeds up fermentation. It will ferment quickly and your mixture will last only a few days. Yeast eats sugar, so there is a balance where there is enough sugar in the water to feed yeast for 2-3 weeks. For your next mix, double your quantity of sugar and cut the quantity of the yeast in half. __ (Two cups or 480 grams of white sugar with only one tablespoon of yeast in 1.75 liters of lukewarm water [body temperature], CO2 production should last 2-3 weeks)
A newly mixed mixture is light tan colored and cloudy. We can see tiny bubbles forming in the brew and slowly rise to the top where they form a small ring on top of the liquid. When there is a lot of sugar and a lot of yeast, that small ring of bubbles foams up and sugary water gets in the glass via the drinking straws. (ratio of yeast and sugar in too little lukewarm water)
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The easiest way to know if your trap is working, is to take the end tube of the straw and put it in another glass half filled with water. The CO2 produced by the 2L bottle will come out at the end of the straw as it should, and make a larger bubble in the glass of water every 1-3 seconds. When the mixture gets weak, bubbles may take up to 5-7 seconds to form while the brew turns clear like lemonade. When that happens, you need to do a remix, (discard and rinse). Another clue is the smell that comes from the end of the straw. At first it smells like baked bread and when the fermentation gets completed it slightly smells like alcohol. (8-12%)
That will tell you that you made your mixture the way you prefer to do it and that the CO2 is going directly into the small glass pitfalls you specially made for these nasty unwanted guests. Some people prefer a stronger trap, one that produces a lot of CO2 quickly. The recipe for strong fast CO2 production is lots of food (sugar) for the hungry sugar eaters (yeast). Yeast eats sugar and turns it into alcohol and CO2. We are only interested in CO2 because it is one of the only two lures bedbugs react to. But do they ever react to it. To them, the CO2 Bedbug Trap is the promise of a meal. They always follow the CO2 contained in our breath to find us.
There are strong traps and there are weak traps. Strong traps feel needed when we discover we have bedbugs, everybody wants something that will catch them fast. I call those flash traps, making a lot of CO2 quickly but lasting only a few days. Weak traps are longer lasting. A weak trap is a bedbug sentinel that can detect and catch a single bedbug before it has a chance to bite us. Being weak (half a table spoon of yeast with 500 grams of white sugar gives yeast enough food to eat for 4-5 weeks. So a sentinel can last over a month and protect you by luring the very first bedbug into a CO2 bedbug trap. Imagine, something that can catch the very first bedbug? Do you think it is possible? It happens all the time with some of my correspondent who lives in bedbug-prone areas. One day while renewing the trap, they see a lone dead bedbug at the bottom of the small glass pitfall. A single bedbug, how about that? Never had a bite. Prevention is what the bedbug trap is all about.
Keep them from feeding and it will destroy them. Without your blood, bedbugs cannot survive. Starve them to death! Bedbugs deserve no less, they are parasites. Any insect that thrives on my blood will have my blood taken away from these annoying blood-suckers. The Shield is the most powerful defense against bedbugs. It stops all bites at once.
The Bedbug Shield
I would like to follow you, I like tinkerers and I think you are one of us, people who do things by themselves and get rewarded from their own efforts. The traps, the shield and the barriers are easy to do. It takes a few hours to set them up but it pays off by getting you rid of bedbugs right down to the last one and gives you peace of mind, at last. There is no cleaning, sorting out to do, putting everything in plastic bags, going through a pesticide treatment and arguing endlessly whose fault it is and who should pay for it. Paying to get poisoned of all things!
There is a way out, and it is by taking care of your bedbugs yourself. Bedbugs thrive, grow and multiply on our blood, why don’t we stop that? It’s easy, all it needs is sugar, yeast, plastic, tubing or straws, tape and whatever bottle or container that fits our needs. Keep bedbugs away from you and do not give them any chance to feed.
Bedbug traps, bedbug shield and bedbug barriers will take care of your bedbugs and eliminate them right down to the last one while you sleep soundly without a bite. There are probably hundreds of thousands who have made their own bedbug trap by now and it keeps growing.
Welcome into a bedbug free world.
JulesNoise
@__Duipose1 __3/6__A shield on the bed and only two traps, one on each side of the bed is enough to catch bedbugs. Using four 500 ml bottles has the advantage of being able to separate them and cover more places on the floor. At first, you can use a 500 ml bottle in each corner of the bed and have an extra one to place somewhere else in the room until you can make more bottles with straws and glasses. You will not stay up every night and will be able to sleep without a bite from now on.
@__Duipose1 __2/6__Although the plastic is very slippery for bedbugs to climb up on it, it is the edge of the plastic that keeps bedbugs from being able to get to the outer side. Their bodies cannot bend and make the 180 degree turn from the inside to the outside. When they try, they lose their weak grip on it and fall down to the floor. Right next to the traps that catches them on the floor.
@__Far from being a stupid question, it is the understanding on how to stop bedbugs. You are right, bedbugs are unable to crawl out because glass is too smooth for them.
In fact, any smooth vertical surface is too slippery for bedbugs if you brush it with talcum powder. So if you want to make a bedbug barrier anywhere, like bedb legs, all you need is common scotch tape that will be brushed (coated) with talcum powder to make them too slippery for bedbugs to climb up on. Tape and talcum powder.
@_Duipose__3/6__1) A painter’s plastic is the best to cover the bed. You can also use inexpensive shower curtains or make your own by taping large plastic bags together as a single sheet. There are no official BB covers, only attempts by companies to get money out of you by selling you a product that will not stop bedbugs. Best example is mattress encasements that entombs lots of bedbugs but let all the other bedbugs outside the mattress start a colony elsewhere.
I have an envoy mattress & box spring covers, and bed bugs. how do I entice the nasties to the floor for the system to work?
@__Talipandas88__2/2__You can use baking soda to make CO2 but it has to be mixed with vinegar instead of sugar. It will make a lot of sizzling CO2 which will last only a few minutes. Baking soda and vinegar do not last long enough to make bedbug traps.
im sorry maybe im not reading all of the comments or something....but what do you do? i also have to mention im on my phone it doesnt show everything like on a computer so please if you may....what do u do and put what where....
Jules, I found a 2ft by 50ft self adhering plastic that's used for sticking to carpet. Was wondering if you thought that would work if I duct taped it to the sides of boxsprings/mattress as you show doing with non sticky plastic in one of your videos? I thought it might be easy to apply because of the size and sticky side. Would they get stuck on the sticky under side or would the sticky make it possible for them to flip to the top non sticky slick side? Please let me know what you think and if you received a similar question, you can ignore that since I forgot I was on my friend's computer. Again, I really appreciate your help
Hello.. Just a question pls... In this case should I do this for like one week to get rid totally of bed bugs and their eggs??
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And.. Is it enough to do it alone or this should be done with the shield??
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And thanks so much for the help!
@__János Simon__The red stuff is strawberry jam. It is only a way to seal any hole or opening in the cap where the straw goes in. One can use a variety of stuff to seal a hole and the easiest and most convenient is to use anything sticky that you already have at home. Of course we could use glue, silicone or any technical means to do it but not everybody has that at home when they are trying to make a trap. Using jam is the least expensive and most readily found. All you want is to seal the hole
@__ Evasquez357__1/5__Excellent. About one bubble a second is almost perfect. It will mimic the breathing of a small animal and that is all it takes to attract bedbugs. If it would make more bubbles, it would produce more CO2 of course but it would not last as long. This mix should last 2-3 weeks. When it will become clear like lemonade, the fermentation will be spent and it will be time to make another mix.
Do you need four bottle of the CO2 mixture per trap or will fewer suffice?
@__Maria Gross__It is best to use four traps, one behind each leg of the bed. Since the recipe to make CO2 is for a 2L mixture using one (7-8grams) enveloppe of yeast, you can divide that 2L mix in four 500ml bottles and you will have four traps instead of a 2L one.
If you are fighting bedbugs, CO2 traps will catch bedbugs on the floor and coming from anywhere in the room. Bedbugs come out of hiding when they are hungry and go towards the bed where you sleep at night. It is those bedbugs that the traps will catch. However there also are bedbugs already in the bed and those bedbugs will not go back down to the floor in between blood meals. Those bedbugs can easily reach you and bite you because they already are in the bed.
To stop bedbugs already in the bed, you need a bedbug shield. A bedbug shield is an impenetrable barrier placed between the bugs and ourselves so they cannot reach you and feed on you. By placing a bedbug shield on the bed, you immediately stop all bedbug bites.
It is easy to make your own bedbug shield, all you need is a regular fabric contour sheet and a long strip of plastic, about 2 feet wide by 25 feet long. First fix the plastic strip to the sides of the mattress letting it hang down all around the bed, like a skirt, and adjusted to leave a space of about one inch before it touches the floor. Once the plastic skirt is in place, place the fabric contour sheet directly on the mattress and seal them together with duct tape. You now have a bed cover that will stop all and any crawling insect from being able to reach you.
Here is an example on how to make a bedbug shield: The Bedbug Shield
Bedbugs that cannot feed can not molt and grow
Bedbugs that cannot feed can not lay eggs and multiply
Bedbugs that cannot feed simply can not survive and slowly die of starvation.
With the combination of traps on the floor and a bedbug shield on the bed all bites stop at once and you eliminate bedbugs evert time they come out of hiding. Bedbugs starve to death under a shield and they suffocate in the CO2 filled small glasses of the traps.
Bedbug traps and shield are the least expensive means to eliminate bedbugs, yet it is the most efficient. The trap has not been designed to make money from you but only to get rid of bedbugs. It is all yours and other than the materials you can find at home or in local stores, it is free.
Trust the trap and like hundreds of thousands of people before you, you will be bedbug-free.
JulesNoise
@_John Kimble_1/2_Get a large painter’s plastic (12’ by 15’ or more), place the couch on it and lift the sides up to form a plastic bag around the couch by tying all the edges together on top. Secure the plastic to the couch. Avoid moving the couch once is in on the plastic, the points of contact with the floor can cut the plastic and make you lose the CO2. That’s the next step, before you completely close the plastic; put a piece of dry ice at the bottom of the plastic.
Uh-uh! That rubber band will stop the bugs. I watched bed bugs climb up TO the rubber band, and then they wouldn't cross it. (But my rubber band was a wide one. MAYBE they would cross your thin rubber band, I don't know.)
Make a video showing a bed bug crossing the rubber band. Until I see it, I won't believe it. The bed bugs that I watched turned when they hit the rubber band. Walked ALONG the rubber band but wouldn't cross it. You're defeating yourself by using that rubber band, in my opinion.
But thanks, JnSavedByTheBell, for posting these videos. These videos are how I got started with these bed bug traps. The traps allow one to MONITOR one's bed bug infestation, and determine whether the exterminator's spraying is doing the job or not. Still not positive whether these traps alone will eliminate a bed bug infestation without also an exterminator spraying. Results-are-not-in on that one.
Topp Catt to do what?
Erin M lol. to make the bottle less unattractive.
Use double sided tape around the cup then cover the paper towel over top :)
Cool, so i should wrap a giant rubber band around my bed and it's legs?
Hey thanks so much for all youre help, I made your trap with the yeast , but i havent caught anything and i made it 4 days ago, i got bit today. what do i do?
@__Lollygalliler__3/3__If you use a glass as a pitfall to catch bedbugs, you might not need talcum powder inside the glass but it absolutely guarantees that bedbugs will not be able to climb out of the glass even if glass is too hard and smooth for bedbugs. Talcum powder is really inexpensive and can be found anywhere. It is totally harmless, talcum powder is baby powder. A gift to fight bedbugs.
And one fine evening my mates came dead drunk and thanked me for the awesome drink ;)
@__IlliniJournal__2/4__A CO2 bedbug trap is a detector or a monitor as the Industry calls them. It signals bedbug presence by catching them when they come out of hiding to try to feed. In an office, the best place to put a bedbug trap is directly on the seat of a suspected desk chair overnight. It will attract bedbugs during the night and catch them if there are any. It shows where the harborage is and you can then treat that particular item and clear it out of its bedbugs.
so is this a method fro trapping and getting rid of bedbugs or a method to let you know you have bedbugs?
Hi Patrick Batemanist__1/5__CO2 Bedbug traps work on the floor because CO2 is heavier than air and flows down to the ground, CO2 traps catch bedbugs which are in the room and try to reach and bite you while you sleep. They are very efficient on the floor and underneath the bed. But CO2 Bedbug traps do not catch bedbugs which are already in the bed. Bedbugs do not go down and away from their food (your blood) if they already are in the bed. To stop bedbugs you need a bedbug shield
I had those problem, once I had this mini red candle jar, after that pee in it, next day all bed bugs are inside of it sucking the candle and liquid. Another day there still in there but DEAD. :D So set 1 up put it on a location u think mostly come near.
ChipmunkCool15 what do u mean please explain
Hi I have another question with regards to bed sheild.Our bed has a metal headboard and frame.Do I need to cover the entire bed with the plastic dust sheet?How about the matress can I cover it too with the plastic dust sheet? Thank you..
Metal headboard and frames are excellent deterent for bedbugs, Bedbugs do not jump or fly, they are are climbers. A slick and slippery vertical surface will stop any climber and make it fall down to the ground. it is how a small glass works as a pitfall for bedbugs. Easy to climb on the outsibe and impossible to climb out from the inside. It is true for insects and for any other creature on earth, including humans. Pitfalls are the oldest traps in the world.
To make a metal headboard and frame too slippery for bedbugs to get a grip and climb up into your bed, all you need is simple and inexpensive baby powder. Brush the legs of the bed with a very light coat of baby powder and bedbugs will not be able to climb in the bedbwith you and feed of your warm blood.
Bedbug barriers is what you need and you can make your own with your wits ans two good hands. Here is a bedbug barrier looks like: julesnoise.com/2014/05/21/bedbug-barriers/ Notice live bedbug falling down to the floor where we put the traps?
There is no need to cover the whole bed, rubbing alcohol can easily take of any bedbug or egg on the upper parts of a metal bed. The shield is what will stop any and every bedbug from being able to feed. If you can clean the metal headboard and frame out of bedbugs with alcool and make it too slippery for bedbugs to be able to climb on it, then the only needed to do is to cover the mattress with a homemade encasement.
Use a regular contour sheet to cover the top of the mattress and the plastic dust sheet to encase the sides and bottom of the mattress. You could cover the whole mattress with the plastic dust sheet and it would work, but a fabric contour sheet is just as good as plastic to encase bedbugs since they do not dig or chew but is much more comfortable that sweaty and slippery plastic.
Alcohol to clear the metal bed frame and headboard, a homemade mattress encasement to stop all bedbug bites at once, baby powder to keep any other bed from being able to climb in the bed and CO2 traps on the floor to catch hungry bedbugs that might be somewhere else in the room, and you will be all set up and protected against bedbugs.
You also might be interested to find out about bedbug barriers, simple things we can do to make a room and even a whole apartment bedbug-proof. Bedbug barriers are at: julesnoise.com/2014/05/21/bedbug-barriers/
Do that and learn well, you will get rid of bedbugs and hopefully you will tell someone else how you did it. I've been fighting bedbugs for over six years and ther are bedbug traps in all five continents, and we all win. People taking care of bedbug all by themselves is the solution to bedbug eradication.
I do not wish you good luck. You do not need luck to eliminate bedbugs. All you need is two good hands and a sharp mind. Life is good.
I have only a mattress no box spring so how would this method work for myself wrap the whole thing?
There are many ways to make a bedbug shield, depending on the bed you have. For a mattress directly on the floor, look at julesnoise.com/2013/06/20/50/ to see the one best for you. It is relatively easy and inexpensive (about a few dollars for the plastic and a roll of duct tape). Then you can make traps to catch the bedbugs while you sleep without a single bedbub bite. Within a few weeks there are no more bedbugs around and you are bedbug-free