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- Bed bugs are a major problem-and they're only getting worse. Did you know that 1 in 5 Americans either has bed bugs, or knows someone who does? Join Michael Aranda and dive into the creepy crawly world of bed bugs and learn what you can do to prevent an infestation in this new episode of SciShow!
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Don't bring that gorgeous couch that someone put near the dumpster into your apartment, they threw it away for a reason.
Tell my parents that lol 😂 whenever they see something useful on the streets they always gotta take it
Lol
Delores, I hate people who do that. There is one from Colombia living where I leave. He brought a couch from the street, and I have never put my ass on it. I will never put my ass in a couch that many other people sat on. Who knows who sat there.
we got a new bed from a store. spend 1k. now we got bedbugs for first time ever.
@@linsanity1981.....and it will be hard for you to prove that the bugs came in the bed unless they were sleeping when you got the bed. I think you are telling us a lie.....you have those damn bed bugs before you bought the bed. Are you saying you did not check the bed at the store.....get out.
It's a shame that bedbugs weren't made completely extinct back in the 1950's globally.
Agreed. Of all the species that have gone extinct because of humans, bed bugs would've been one I would DEFINITELY be happy to see gone. Would not miss them at all.
I know
Were the fun in that ?
Listen, I know DDT was really bad for a lot of reasons, but HEAR ME OUT, mayybe we could bring it back- *dies of cancer*
Listen, I know DDT was really bad for a lot of reasons, but HEAR ME OUT, mayybe we could bring it back- *dies of cancer*
It’s crazy you’re literally at war in your own home
Breanna Sumner lol yeah
I won my war thanks to Jason Akers over on the Green Akers Pest Control page here on TH-cam! He's the Terminator when it comes to pest control and if you follow his advice, your bed bug days are OVER.
I tourture them for not letting me go to sleep
Agree
It’s a gross feeling thinking something may be feeding on you while you sleep. The life span is what creeps me out the most. What are they, immortal?
I’m gonna build a time machine and go back to when they are almost extent and get the job done
The government stopped the use of D.D.T. that's why we have them again and this time I had them twice 😭😭😭😭 they are nasty little bugs that feed day and night. I only pray they are found to have a cure all for these nasty little things or bring back the D.D.T.
@@derrickmcadoo3804 he will get rid of them?
You Lee good luck
*extinct
Extinct
Totally had to deal with these things and didn't have the money to call a professional. Months of diligence and careful use of diatomaceous earth, heat, steam, vacuuming, patience, and little sleep. These things are the devil incarnate.
land lord luckily has the responsibility in calling pest control. I don't think Anchor (the exterminator company is that good though) so i'm doing the same stuff. what steam machine did you use?
diatomaceous earth is a myth according to what I have read.
weenisw idk if it works or not but my mom put it on our beds to try to avoid parasites and it kicked up my asthma so horribly I almost died.
I feel you
Trillium: Wild Edibles diatomaceous earth doesn't work. You need to take all carpet out of your home. Get dawn dishwashing soap and tea tree essential oil in a spray and go to war. Worked for me.
So, who else got itchy while and after watching this video?
Duarte Marques I am itchy... I have them aaaaahhhhhh
Duarte Marques They can spread through comments lmfao
Duarte Marques me :'(
It's a normal psychogenic response to hearing about parasites, psychogenic experiences spread incredibly fast from mind to mind, so coming back to this thread will make you itchy over and over again
OMG YES, sooo itchy!
Bed bugs should go extinct
Along with cockroaches!!
@@abishek07 also wasp I hate those
Yea what good are they. They're just annoying pests
We need to declare war on them
Along with rats 🐀
I heard a pest control expert in MN put some in a jar and left them in truck entire winter. They froze solid. Unfroze in spring and came back to life. Like many parasitic organisms can and do.
I had them in my bed when I was a teenager. The way I killed them was I got my iron and just ironed the whole mattress. I also pressed the steam button all over the bed and made sure the steam went into every little crevice in the bed.
This method actually worked and they never bothered me again! :)
That is a WONDERFUL idea dude. I've never had them but if I do..... I'ma so do that. Best idea so far.
Great idea.
Yes! This will work,but you cannot assume you will get all of them.They are very prolific egg layers and you must be diligent in watching for them. They might crawl in from a neighbor's apt.,a bus,school,or ANYWHERE! Everyone must take responsibility to rid the world of these monsters who suck our blood.
Yes im sure some of them migrated to another part of the house you cant iron the whole house
I told you not to bug me when im ironing my bed mom!!!!!
They suck your blood. They share your bed. They like to watch you sleep... still a better love story than Twilight.
Master Therion Agreed.
Then I guess I'll watch Twilight so I don't hate these fuckers so much by comparison.
Master Therion hahahaa
No way. I hate bed bugs and most bugs in general. I'd much rather deal with Twilight. Anyway, why are you even bringing Twilight up in 2016? Lmao
Master Therion loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I ain’t sleeping anymore 😂
I’m staying in the shower
That was literally me 3 years ago 😂
spider: helo
bad news.... i'm very nearsighted and when i take a shower i take my glasses off....I was in the shower one morning and thought i was seeing things because i was seeing small dots moving around.... on closer inspection, i wasn't seeing things that weren't there.... There were dozens of babies on the walls of my shower.... i later found out by tracing the fecal trails that they had come into my apartment from my new neighbors, via the space between the wall and the pipe under the sink.... I put 2sided tape on the ceiling walls and floor around the door and I completely eradicated them 2-3 times but they kept appearing in my bathroom... I ended up having to move because the landlord wouldn't do anything to get my neighbor to fix the problem.
I'm thinking like you think.
But I'm at someone else house where I'm visitinggggg😱😭
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH EVERYWHERE.
I think I’m just gunna sleep on concrete for the rest of my life. Thanks.
Same
🤣🤣🤣
they'll crawl still.
from bed to concrete where you are.
they have a radar detector for warm blood. 😬
Those things have anything covered and they don't discriminate they accumulate clean, new, nasty or old. Wet or dry. Only thing they can't stand is heat, powered products. Alcohol full blast. Plastic, especially the covering things up with it and the sound. They do not like greasy things. Otherwise they show up anywhere in any nook or crany. The thing is they like to be in the dark and nest under warm humans. Or in carpets the most after they suck your blood. Why are they called BUGS? When they are not. Grandma did say don't let the bedbugs bite because people had micro bugs and boweevels. Those were real bugs like fleas that just accumulated and bite. But Dust mites and ( Bedbugs) are not Bugs they are Parasites. They only exist due to the way they feed off your blood or skin flakes. They are mights. Now real bugs like boweevels and micro bugs and. roaches and fleas. You use pesticide and bug spray. The parasites need that special stuff. Plus it has nothing to do with how dirty you are it just depends on how well they can nest and accumulate. Alcohol 91% usually dry them out. Baking soda and vacuum cleaning. Plastic smuthers them. Dryer sheets it's something about those they just don't like them. With anything you do if they are on you then you will see the bites. They look like pimples and they itch. Which means they are getting your blood. They appear clear when they are born and they only appear to look like bugs after they have sucked your blood and then they go off and hide. Usually they are worst than mice because it you are in bed or sitting on furture and you happen to see one? Most likely behind your unprotected pillow or. bed clothes. Or clothes that you wear and it's doesn't matter how clean you are. These things only purpose is to suck your blood. The worst thing is you could sit somewhere over somebody's house or at a vehicle, theater, hotel. School church any place that has material they can cling to from tiny floor cracks to rugs especially base boards, people own places now and have that problem with them being invested in the walls. Look like brown tears rolling down the wall. This would be places invaded that were not treated and they be ready with somebody elses blood those are the darker ones. They say you can't smash them because they mutante if you do. You can find them in just about any crack or any place in doors or out like that and. somebody has them and you don't, if it's on the furniture or place. Like back in the 1990's they never exist. Nobody ever heard of these things. So lots of people were shocked to get them. They were said to have been brought over from somewhere out of America and people would bring them to hotels and motels and they would accumulate behind base boards and the works. People don't even realize they are being bitten. Still it use to get so terrible because people didn't know how to get rid of them. All of a sudden they started to appear everywhere. It was like they were created in a science lab in secret to bite be attractive to human blood like mosquitos when at first they didn't do that they were known to attack farm animals and stuff like that. One day they took a flock. Train looads of birds and and let them lose because birds carry them too so watchout for that. Yes infact the best way to find them is to get a FLASH LIGHT and do a very close inspection this is how small they are tiny tiny tiny untill they bite you. So check anything tith that light that you occupy. Beds clothed shoes hair. Esx. When you are around. Other people Tell people to check themselves, they could sit on your stuff and poooow you could get them just from on being on them. So before they walk in your house and be careful where you lean or sit. Like on seats or elevators and stuff like that.
If you find yourself in contact with them. The most embarrassing thing yo do is pretend they are not there because that won't make them disappear. The best thing is as soon as you see any. It's Miller time!! Go to war and collect all the heat plastic Alcohol and powder but powder can be too messy and makr your house look dusty. Remember these are parasites not BUGS. I call them Beddy Byes. They are creepy but the creepiest tthing to do is ignore them. Good luck.
Concrete has holes.
I remember the saying "Good night sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite" when I was a kid and I didn't know what a bed beg was into later in life.
Same
If they do, do a poo, stick it in a cornish stew.
"Sleep tight" is a reference to beds (pallets) that were supported not by box springs (not invented yet), but by rope.
As the rope stretched, one had to take up the slack - aka: tighten.
My mom said that when I was like 4 and my dad called it a “lullaby” XD
Same here
Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nopedy-Nope-Nope-Nope.
2:56
Harry Lawson Yes;)
Max Bayas WTF
goldengamer_911 j
Harry Lawson lol
I can't stand them they break my sleep in keep me looking around my bed all night when I should be sleeping
Yea that's me rite now at 2:34 am....😢 I got up to use the bathroom and I found two just chilling on my blanket smfh so now I'm tearing my whole house apart
@@ronaldjohnson3717 5:12 am I'm killing all these bastards😂
thats what i did i was so freaked out
Scratching don't forget scratching
Woke up at 2:11am because of a freakin tornado. Ran to get my child and saw one in her bed by her face! Can no longer sleep through the night. Constantly getting up checking. Hired exterminator, thought they were gone, five weeks later got up early to check on child, saw another one!!! Bought diatomaceous earth, Ortho bed bug spray with the sprayer, & Bedlam Plus residual spray, spray beds, baseboards, floors, headboards, dressers, curtains, window seals, behind wall art, wash comforters, sheets, & pillows every week, ...no more bedbugs
I killed a bed bug while watching this vid. I'm not kidding
Alex do you need any help ot more information? You can find it on my site on my YT profile.
Alex wilson same
Same here I killed three
Sweetpea, that’s the worst idea ever. Fumigation does little more than to drive them deeper into crevices. Methodical attention and good ol’ hand to hand combat is the only option.
Burn your house and I'm the last comment on your replys
Oh my god.
Lying in bed while watching this video makes me uncomfortable.
Sleepy Kitty same
+
Why? Don't you keep your bed clean?
Oh. I just saw the end of the video. ...fuck.
Sleepy Kitty Same. I'm uncomfortable now. And informed
One of our local shelters has an interesting way of preventing bedbug re-infestation: a heat room. It is a small room constantly kept at a temperature hot enough to kill bedbugs (and most other creepy crawlies). ANYTHING coming into the building for the first time goes into the heat room for 24 hours. New residents give up their personal belongings for a day, but when they get them back, they are guaranteed bedbug-free.
Fun fact. I did landscaping and gardening for a while, and we use this fungus to kill aphids, called Beaura Bassiana (I don’t know how to spell it exactly) and it would infect and kill aphids. Well, I had a bed bug problem a few months ago and did some research, turns out it can be used to kill bed bugs. So, one night I captured about 3-4 bed bugs and I created a small mixture of the fungus in a jar and exposed the bugs to them, then I let the bugs back into my room.
3 weeks later and not a single bite.
Just a little advice, to anyone having problems
(The spores germinate in the bugs as quick as 24 hours, but it can take a while to rid an infestation but I’ve helped my friends out too and the spores have never failed me)
Can you mail me a spore print please
Daaaaaaannnng i love thiiis, did you also continue to sleep in the same place or did you move out and let nature run its course to their nest?
Question: You "made a small mixture of the fungus." Do you know the proportions of fungus to water that you used? I ordered a small quantity of this stuff but it came with no mixing directions.
@Ryuuma Springfield I was wondering this same thing 😬
Yes the fungus will kill them and they are gone forever... I had them and found the right exterminator that used it and its been 3 yrs and counting & not a one !!
Well, there goes my sleep for tonight
There are now bed bug vaccume cleaners and vaccume cleaner extensions that use UV LIGHT AND VIBRATION.
I use them on my furniture and I have been bed bug free ever since. Mine is made by the company " Dirt devil".
well i just saw one in my hotel room, so just imagine how i feel
bed bugs are much much much and much worse than mosquitoes.
Aside from humans, mosquitoes are literally the most deadliest living thing on earth. Food for thought...
Jennifer Webb that mad true😂 it’s low key sad
The man is correct bedbugs are much worse. The problem with mosquitos its the body of water they come from if you raised them in a glass of water no effects bedbugs will bankrupt you. As far as health they sent me to the ER. Are you ready. I had 100 bites in 10 minutes and didn't see one of them so when people spout out the ass try livin
Agreed
Fact
Upper middle class neighborhood. Spotless clean house that my friends refer to as the HGTV house. We got them from a relative that stayed over for a holiday, he had stayed at a hotel the night before and picked them up. Because we run a tight ship, we caught it early on, but still spent $6000 in treatment, tossed thousands more in goods straight in the trash. It's been well over a year, and so far so good. My wife has severe PTSD about it and stills gets up in the middle of the night and searches. It can happen to anyone.
Lol
I understand your wife's PTSD. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown over it. That was 6 years ago and I STILL think about them when I'm out and about. We went to the movies the other day and I would not take my purse (or any bag) inside and I used a flashlight to check the seats. I dont ever want to go thru that hell again!!
Do bedbugs bite your face??????? Please answer Asap! Thank you
Mr. Alan , I hate public transportation ! That's where a lot of those demonic bugs thrive
O Simmons yeahhh I had one bite me there before and I mistook it for a pimple.. but then it took the shape similar to a mosquito bite that’s when I knew it was a bed bug
I’m smuggling DDT into the country
That's what does it What country still has it?
They’re immune to it now.
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH AND SPRINKLE/DUST EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE WITH IT. DON'T SIT ON PUBLIC CHAIRS, HAVE VISITORS WHO YOU THINK MIGHT HAVE THEM, FREQUENT DIRTY PLACES. WASH ALL YOUR CLOTHES IN HOT WATER, DRY 20 MINUTES ON HIGH IN DRYER. TAKE A SHOWER AND PUT FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH ON TOP OF DIRTY CLOTHES. EVERY HOLE, NOOK, CRANNY, CREVICE BLOW FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH IN THERE. DON'T BREATHE IT IN. DO THIS ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE. SPREAD THE WORD!
I learned the hard way that I have a TERRIBLE reaction to bedbug bites. One broke the skin and pushed bacteria into my system and I contracted a bacterial infection that made its way into my bloodstream. The bugs cannot make you sick themselves, but if you have bacteria on you, which we ALL do ALL the time (even after a shower), their bites may lead to something worse. #TheMoreYouKnow
your warning is too late I already set my bed frame on fire
Jayfey10200 😂
Jayfey10200 😂😂😂😂😂😂
meme len 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
www.cbsnews.com/news/cincinnati-ohio-woman-burns-down-home-trying-to-kill-bedbugs/
See MJ's comments. USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH OR BAKING SODA EVERYWHERE ON A REGULAR BASIS, ABOUT ONCE A MONTH. IT KILLS ALL CRAWLING BUGS. DO NOT BREATHE IT IN. VACUUM UP WITH A SHOP VAC!
*7 things you wish you didn't know about bedbugs*
*one good thing*~
they dont transmit diseases like mosquito do.
I was bitten by bedbugs at a bed and breakfast, and those fuckers are NOT cool.. They are pretty fast for their size, their only active a few minutes at night, it seems like they know when you sleep, and you`ll have to freeze all your clothes and fabrics, -20C or colder, then wash them at 50C or more.
And some eggs might still be ok, and the little bastards can live for month without feeding.
Their bites are like 5 mosquito bites in the same place and if you scratch it it bleeds and leaves a sore.
Got bedbugs?
NUKE YOUR HOUSE!
watainiac How I wished DDT had killed out bed bugs completely
watainiac 😂😂
Jan Christian Frodahl that's how I feel, my friends boyfriend moved in with just clothes but her whole house including the wood furniture got infested, her and her daughter went on steroids because they became ill. I've seen some documentaries too where the family exhausted their savings trying to save their home but bed bugs won and they left it all behind.
I don't even know why I watched this I'm traumatized to sleep now.
I’m so obsessed with bed bugs that I’m actually going to try to find solution to wipe them out! I got very sharp to their bite and my sense to their bite is very strong and I tend to wake up instantly to the bite! I just wake up and start killing them and soaking bed covers in hot water! So basically you need to put up fight to wipe them.
Look up the CO2 and Diatomaceous Earth trap. It works.
I never feel them bite. And I know they are near my bed but I can't find them! I've gotten rid of them about three times over the past several years but this time it's not working. I wonder are they getting immune to the Hot Shot bed bug killer I've been using.
MonaVN I wouldn’t use poison. See the other comment I left you. 😊
This is how to get rid of them without using toxic chemicals or paying a boatload for pest control, Make sure you follow the instructions. You will be glad you did:
Vacuum everything (including between mattresses, every day until they are gone, and then once a week after that. Wash clothes and sheets in lavender pine sol. And the thing that will actually get rid of them is to use food grade diatomacious earth (DE) - it is sold in 15 pound bags at Tractor Supply for about 15 bucks - get food grade, which, by the way, do *not* eat - and a wall-duster (it is like a small tool that blows the DE in a fine powder, costs about 15 bucks also. If you just chunk it around, the bugs walk around it, and it won't kill them, so you sprinkle it in a fine dust using the duster tool). Instructions below.
If you have pets, I don't know what breathing it in will do to them, but, when I have used it, I dust it around before I am ready to leave the house for a few hours, and I stay away so it can settle. I have not had any breathing issues with this, but if anyone in the house has asthma or COPD or anything like that, I would only do it when they are gone for the whole day, and maybe not even then because I don't know how it might affect them. It basically makes the whole house a bit dusty for a few hours.
Anyway, you take off your electric plates (off the walls and light switch plates) and use the duster to blow it into the walls, and also between your mattresses, under the bed, and around all the edges of all the walls in the entire house. Re-dust just like this once a week for a few weeks, then once a month, even after you don't see any more bugs. It also kills roaches and spiders. If it gets in a clump on the carpet, do *not* rub it in or swipe it up, you will make a stain - just vacuum it up.
MJ SpeakLife Very good info! And as with anything involved in getting rid of these horrible things: a ton of work, but well worth it to be free of them at last!👍🏻
*sees a bed bug crawl across my floor*
Me: *starts fire*
Get that lighter ready honey 😂
There are only two types of people in the world "Those who have bedbugs and those who are going to have them".
Wtf noooooo. I've never had them. I got a rash on my back and I decided to read up on this. I checked my mattress tho and I don't see anything.
You should still check your matress once or twice a month. I would even get a spray to treat your luggage and guests when they come in your home. You can't trust anyone. It doesn't matter if they are a very clean person. These bugs don't discriminate.
Boone Park no..... Never had. Never will.
Its more like.. people who get them and dont care, and people who get them and freak!
HYGIENE PEOPLE..
If ur washing ur house daily as u should, u will spot anything before it becomes an infestation!
@@ericagomez9023 You don't know what your talking about. Lol
@@ericagomez9023 Wow, not true.
Educate yourself before speaking
Thank U Sir, for adding to my list of insomniatic triggers!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
A few tips:
1) They're small, about the side of an apple seed, but you can find them if you have them.
2) They're easier to get rid of in a house rather than a multifamily home/apartment.
3) Heat treatment is often the most expensive and doesn't have a residual effect.
4) The larger companies are often the most expensive by a lot (i.e. when he said "thousands"), call a local family owned professional, they're a fraction of the cost and do great work (check their reviews of course).
5) You *can* treat your own home with professional grade products if you don't want to hire an exterminator by purchasing products online... however, please read the label on how much to apply and on where you can apply the product. In my experience, the products you get at hardware stores often times make it worse because it just pushes many of the bedbugs into the walls.
There great gifts for your in-laws🤭
I hate the thought of me providing my own sacred beloved blood to some insignificant worthless pest without my consent
Calabi-Yau Manifold Your body isn't a temple after all, according to natural selection. :/
Calabi-Yau Manifold/ Couldn't have said it better myself.
we're insignificant worthless pests taking the sacred beloved resources of this earth without its consent, so yeah.
KappaW we're all meaningless!!!!
Nothings worth stating!!
Bed bugs are bad. But incompetent landlords are worse.
*edit* For those of you saying it isn't the landlord's problem: It is, by law, their problem. I took it to court and I won. My complaint is with the fact that I actually had to take it to court. (Which was a long drawn out process) If you're charging some $1200 a month for rent it's expected you can save some money for an emergency. If not, you're just a slumlord looking to make a quick easy buck.
Bulkbs it's not always the landlords fault when the tenant gets bedbugs.
That is where misplaced blame gets support from judges who are also realtors.
These people complaining about the landlords are just "blowin in the wind" There is no point blaming anyone! You can get them in a cab,on a bus,in a hotel,a casino,or ANY place. Do not even try to move,blame someone else,or spray some worthless bug killer. IT WILL NOT WORK! It takes research on all the methods,diligence,and time.... I know! Get busy!
How's that the landlords fault? Incompetent tenants who are lacking on cleanliness & hygiene infesting rental properties with bed bugs are worse.
@@elizabethkelley5260 I've even seen a news story that said movie theaters & furniture stores had bed bug infestations.
I have sensitive skin and when I had them, it seemed like I was the only one getting bit. I didn't sleep well for a while.
I'm going through that right now 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
I was blessed with them by a relative. I googled how to kill bed bugs with essential oils. I immediately pulled up lavender. I had some lavender spray, by Avon. Imagine that. I immediately sprayed. The next day I found dead bugs on the floor on the other side of my bed. I also steamed my mattress around the outside top. Bed bugs lay eggs and they hatch in 3 days. So, it is daily spraying here. Their lungs cannot handle the lavender. It is too strong. I can attest to that. I have also run the sweeper around the top seam of the bed. I also have diamiticulus earth. I haven't opened the bag yet.
Thanks so much ❤
I had bedbugs in college. It was awful. Not only were they all over my mattress, but they got into my bag and would bite me in class. I felt tired and itchy all the time, and oh, that smell! I will never forget the way they smell!
I'm watching this in bed, now I feel itchy.
Your not alone on that me too
Me
same
It's probably just carpet beetles. Annoying but they're harmless.
The Creeper oh come on
Diatomaceous Earth, something that could be found at any plant store, can kill the bugs easy. Find some and spread them in the area you know holds them. The earth becomes a barrier where you spread it.
how about empty out a few containers into a pressure sprayer and cover the whole room?
It's the only thing that works, and it's like $10 and non-toxic. That stuff saved me from burning down my house.
@@RagingInsomniac I used an empty baby powder bottle.
DON'T BREATHE IT IN!
This has been the most entertaining video about bedbugs. I haven’t seen them in person yet, but my dermatologist said that she suspects my bites to be bedbug bites. After hearing that yesterday. I couldn’t sleep well at all. And when I started to fall asleep I woke up looking to see if I can catch the blood suckers. I’m hoping she was wrong. I have tore up my whole house literally cleaning everything twice. I feel like a leper, how do I visit family without being afraid I’m gonna give it to them. I have a child and baby birds. I’d rather be diagnosed with a disease (a minor disease) that I fight myself, that won’t affect my family. I’m hoping beyond hope she was wrong. But looking for ways to identify and hopefully stop them before it becomes a major problem.
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH AND SPRINKLE/DUST EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE WITH IT. DON'T SIT ON PUBLIC CHAIRS, HAVE VISITORS WHO YOU THINK MIGHT HAVE THEM, FREQUENT DIRTY PLACES. WASH ALL YOUR CLOTHES IN HOT WATER, DRY 20 MINUTES ON HIGH IN DRYER. TAKE A SHOWER AND PUT FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH ON TOP OF DIRTY CLOTHES. EVERY HOLE, NOOK, CRANNY, CREVICE BLOW FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH IN THERE. DON'T BREATHE IT IN. DO THIS ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE. SPREAD THE WORD!
I had them. Worst experience ever! I got rid of them by sleeping on my stripped mattress with double sided tape all around it. I'd wake up and they were stuck to the tape. Did this for 2 weeks straight and they were all gone. I slept with no sheets or anything though. Not the best experience.
Kirsten Flake the absolute worst experience ever
Kirsten Flake great idea thanks
Thank you for the idea!
Kirsten Flake never had bed bugs
Cool
I'm gonna give this a try because unfortunately rubbing alcohol and mouthwash seem to work temporarily but they still come back
Why am I watching this in bed wtf
Gamer_Kid_Naz same
Gamer_Kid_Naz well shit me too
Was about to go to sleep...
Gamer_Kid_Naz aww sheeet
Gamer_Kid_Naz same here ahhh
Had a crazy infestation last winter and was absolute hell but there’s 2 solutions; Eucalyptus oil spray and a steam mop!
I was renting a room in a house that had them very bad! Woke up with bites every morning. Needles to say, I didn't stay there very long!
Probably should not have watched this video before sleeping
daenerys targaryen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
same
fuck
*Trying to sleep
Solution:
1: Evacuate house of all humans and pets
2: Set house on fire
3: Build New house
Repeat if needed
Diatomaceous earth. Can't believe they didn't bring it up. Food quality can be sprinkled around the cracks in your house, mattress, bed frame then vacuumed out. The residue kills bedbugs, fleas, anything with an exoskeleton. "Nothing as effective as DDT"...geez. Try Diatomes. Wipe them out...all of them
*when
Do we need to burn all our belongings and precious possessions too?
Yes it does. It's a physical solution not a chemical one so bedbugs are less likely to build up any sort of resistance to it. Unless they stop using exoskeletons. We have used it to treat fleas and bedbugs in several buildings. With chemical solutions and professional exterminators the pests always come back. With DE enough residue remains in the cracks of baseboard and mattresses even after months of regular cleaning that they just don't have a place to survive.
Patrick Matheson I had to use DE when what I thought was just a bad case of fleas for my two dogs turned into an outright infestation. Thankfully, it was mainly contained to my room, where they slept, but it was a harsh battle. I had to pull everything out of the closet and sprinkle powder there too (I'm grateful I kept most of my things in sealed plastic totes). The house was old and had wooden floors that weren't varnished it anything so there were more cracks for them to hide in.
I covered the entire floor for up to a week at a time and would vacuum at the end of the week and repeat the process. At night, I'd place a lamp on the floor with a shallow dish of soapy water (The soap helped to ensure they couldn't jump back out and the fleas were attracted to the light; I'm saying that more for anyone else's benefit since you already seem pretty knowledgeable about these pests, lol). That worked quite well and I'd wake up with a hundred or so fleas in the water. However...we realized we weren't able to keep the puppies and gave them to our shelter, sadly, but it allowed us to focus more on the cleanup.
In the end, I'm not sure if it worked completely. We moved about two months into the process. I was terrified they'd follow us to our new home but surprisingly, they didn't. We didn't clean the DE off the floor when we left and this was during the winter time. They don't like the cold and can only go a few weeks without food, I think. Considering in my experience, many places aren't immediately cleaned by the landlord, the place should be free of pests for the next person that lives there. The DE can easily be vacuumed and mopped up.
Anywho, I too was wondering why he hadn't mentioned using this stuff in the video.
It scared the frick out of me when he said they might live in your leg...
Bradley Bruno Analeah love: a prosthetic leg
Gonna remove my legs and replace them in a prosthetic leg instead
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH.
Theres a cleaner/disinfectant at Walmart called Odoban..it works and they hate it.
Right.....
Were can i find it at Wal-Mart i meam what department
Brenda in the same section as the febreze
There are now bed bug vaccume cleaners and vaccume cleaner extensions that use UV LIGHT AND VIBRATION.
I use them on my furniture and I have been bed bug free ever since. Mine is made by the company " Dirt devil".
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH AND SPRINKLE/DUST EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE WITH IT. DON'T SIT ON PUBLIC CHAIRS, HAVE VISITORS WHO YOU THINK MIGHT HAVE THEM, FREQUENT DIRTY PLACES. WASH ALL YOUR CLOTHES IN HOT WATER, DRY 20 MINUTES ON HIGH IN DRYER. TAKE A SHOWER AND PUT FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH ON TOP OF DIRTY CLOTHES. EVERY HOLE, NOOK, CRANNY, CREVICE BLOW FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH IN THERE. DON'T BREATHE IT IN. DO THIS ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE. SPREAD THE WORD!
Here's some advice: look at your bed, more specifically your bedframe. If it's made of wood, they seem to prefer that, and hang out mostly in the cracks and crevices of the wood. You'll see blackish little spots, almost like black paint splatter/spotting. That's their feces. If you have a metal/black bedframe, it will be very difficult to even see that, so look at any wall outlets near the bed or even in the corners of the wall and ceiling.. More than likely you'll never see them, unless the infestation is really bad or you agitate their hiding spots with pesticides or moving stuff around.. They typically don't live on the mattress and THEY DON'T attach themselves to you. They will, however, hide in clothes, dressers, mattress seams, pillows, or even shoes if that provides meaningful protection from you during the day.
I'm facing flood levels of infestation
Sprinkle baking soda everywhere.
Do it often. The crystals are actually quite sharp to a bed bug. It's also dehydrating if they come into contact with it and don't get cut. And when I say cut it gets into their exoskeleton joints and jacks em up. Sprinkle the stuff everywhere. Sweep or vacuum and reapply.
Thanks for the tips
@@krissifadwa the absolute best way is to get the room to about 130 - 140° F for about 8 to 12 hours. It’ll kill all hatched and unhatched bugs and your problem will be OVER!!! Bed bugs die over 115°. Keeping the room(s) at 140° for at least 8 hours will ensure it gets hot enough in every crevice and hiding spot they take refuge in killing your infestation. You might be able to rent a heater that can keep and maintain a room that hot. If not… get a steamer (they look like a big tea kettle that blasts out steam) and just steam the hell out of EVERYTHING!
Paper spontaneously catches on fire at about 480⁰F. You might want to check what other flammable things that burn or might melt but maintaining a room at 140⁰ isn't terribly dangerous.
They also hate lavender Ive used it alone 28thout water bombs and
Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. The rubbing alcohol kills them on contact. You're welcome.
Damian Thompson thank you so much dude.... They haven't bothered me since, came back to thank ya
Another thing that works... hitting them with a shoe... Being sarcastic a bit lol but point is alcohol only kills on contact. the ones you see are the tip of the iceberg the real army is in hiding waiting for you to doze off to feast once again
Damian Thompson it doesn’t work it drys there shell and they spasm for a couple mins then they run it’s like using a taser on a person it stuns for a second...
Okay here’s the fix.
Clean up any clutter in your house
Don’t take anything outside to sit it will just spread the bedbugs to neighbors and keep them coming back to you
Wash all of your clothes, covers, and curtains and dry them with the hottest setting for 45 minutes. When they’re done bag them up in a trash bag and seal it with a rubber band or better yet get some air tight bags to seal your stuff in. Keep one of the bags for clothes you will be using.
Buy bed bug spray that kills them on contact. Spray your bed and any other place like under cushions of couches and the bottom of your bed and box spring.
Bag up your dishes and utensils and food in the cabinets. Open all of the cabinets and doors in your home
Buy bed bug bombs and put them all through your house. Use as directed you’ll usually have to leave for several hours
Buy diatomaceous earth and put it around the base of your walls and in backs and in shoes and everywhere that you couldn’t spray. Put it under your bed and in between your box spring and bed. Make sure it’s food grade diatomaceous earth
Put your pillow cases and beds in a covering that is bed bug proof.
Keep everything that’s bagged, bagged, and repeat the process after two weeks (with the exclusion of washing your clothes since they are already protected in an air tight bag
I think you can buy a steamer from Lowe’s for $45 to apply heat to places like your bed. To kill them.
You should do all of these steps. Don’t invite anyone over during this time. Don’t give anything of yours to anyone. You should probably put diatomaceous earth in your car as well
And also make sure to burn everything that you can/are willing to give up no reason in keeping stuff you don’t use it just provides hiding spots and protection from chemicals and stuff for the bugs
They were ALMOST gone, gotta keep the Orkin man in business.
This is how to get rid of them without using toxic chemicals or paying a boatload for pest control, Make sure you follow the instructions. You will be glad you did:
Vacuum everything (including between mattresses, every day until they are gone, and then once a week after that. Wash clothes and sheets in lavender pine sol. And the thing that will actually get rid of them is to use food grade diatomacious earth (DE) - it is sold in 15 pound bags at Tractor Supply for about 15 bucks - get food grade, which, by the way, do *not* eat - and a wall-duster (it is like a small tool that blows the DE in a fine powder, costs about 15 bucks also. If you just chunk it around, the bugs walk around it, and it won't kill them, so you sprinkle it in a fine dust using the duster tool). Instructions below.
If you have pets, I don't know what breathing it in will do to them, but, when I have used it, I dust it around before I am ready to leave the house for a few hours, and I stay away so it can settle. Wear a mask while dusting your home and inside of the walls, and anytime you use it. I have not had any breathing issues with this, but if anyone in the house has asthma or COPD or anything like that, I would only do it when they are gone for the whole day, and maybe not even then because I don't know how it might affect them. It basically makes the whole house a bit dusty for a few hours.
Some people wear gloves when handling it, but I have never had any issues with it (I actually don't wear a mask, but I don't breathe it in, either, so, use common sense).
Anyway, you take off your electric plates (off the walls and light switch plates) and use the duster to blow it into the walls, and also between your mattresses, under the bed, and around all the edges of all the walls in the entire house. Re-dust just like this once a week for a few weeks, then once a month, even after you don't see any more bugs. It also kills roaches and spiders. If it gets in a clump on the carpet, do *not* rub it in or swipe it up, you will make a stain - just vacuum it up.
@@mjspeaklife8724 cool
I have mattress covers and got rid of my carpets because of dust mites, so I thought I would be safe from bed bugs. I didn't realise that bed bugs could live in walls and behind light switches. Either I don't have them or I'm not allergic to them and I haven't seen any evidence of the little critters.
I am 72. This is the first time I have had them in my whole life. I am thoroughly disgusted.
it’s easier for them to get to u if they have access to hide in mattresses.
Yep they're sneaky. They only come out at night. They hide behind pictures and wall carpeting the type people hang for decoration. Light switches the light bulb sockets the mounting plates for overhead lights. Wall plug plates. Sneaky!!! The whole place has to be heated up to like 160 degrees for a few hours. The exterminators had the perfect set up. Cost my brothers family thousands.
@@flowerpower7619 did you move into someplace that already had them?
i think dust mites are harmless since they just eat dead skin, but if you're allergic, nevermind.
Sleep? Who needs sleeps anyways? *starts chewing fingers*
Nin 4 just let the bed bugs do the chewing lol
First off.... The word. " ANYWAY " does not need an " S " on the end of it ever. It is an adverb. To hell with the rest of your English.....
Time to live underwater
Rick Jorna
I'm watching this in the bath!
Rick Jorna don't worry there's much worse things in the water have fun! :)
Yea, then end up trying to find out how to get rid of leeches
@@_a.z please plug ur phone in and let it swim with you in the bath make sure the cord is cut so power flows into the water
@@fire-fx2ct
Why would you want that?
I've been told crossfire can kill bedbugs within 5 mins if sprayed directly, 2 or 3 hours once the spray dries and the bed bug crosses the sprays path. Last 30 days too
This. Just sprayed my place with it, it’s been extremely effective!
Just want to say that this channel has the most info by far good job❗😉
Who is watching this in bed?😂
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Watching this on an aero bed after a recent bed bug infestation 😩☹️
Invited a friend to live with us when she got kicked out of her apartment. Found out a few weeks later she had bedbugs, brought them right into the house. Absolute nightmare to deal with. Eventually we moved out of that house and managed to kill all the bugs in our stuff before we got to the new place. I wouldn't wish bedbugs on anyone, its a major pain to deal with and their numbers quickly become uncontrollable.
No good deed goes unpunished.🤣
If you pay attention to your home you’ll find them soon enough to avoid an infestation. I know cause I found them on my bed and instantly grabbed a spray bottle filled with rubbing alcohol and went to work. This is all I had of hand at the time. I then bagged all sheets and pillowcases then vacuumed. Keep an eye on everything and after two months, nothing. Pay attention to what’s in your home and you’ll be way ahead.
I did catch a female and two other younger ones and put them in a container to see how long they’ll live without feeding. It’s been two months now. the two smaller ones have expired while the adult female is still alive
Hi. How long did the female bedbug live for?
How long did the female live? It's been a year
I think in tropical countries with lots of lizards and geckos, bed bugs are not very popular. I remember seeing them in apartments in my Aunt's house, but when lizards started crawling around, we don't see any bed bug bites anymore.
4 years since I had bedbugs and the PTSD. Still stands. I can't sleep normally without looking all over my bed at the slightest weird feeling on my skin.
I experience similar symptoms. No one ever talks about the psychological damage they can do in addition to the financial and bodily harm. I still have scars from the bites that blistered on my arms and legs.
I used to be homeless, and they controlled bedbugs in the shelter by requiring the "guests" to shower, surrendering their clothes and other personal effects, which were kept in a room which was itself kept superhot (like "hot enough to basically sous vide with air and cook a steak medium well.")
The guests wore shelter-issued surgical scrubs, and the beds were on a floor where you had to pass through the shower area to reach it.
Effective for infection and bed bug control, but I wouldn't recommend taking up residence in a homeless shelter.
There nasty! I went to sleep in a cheap hotel room in Mexico, woke up 3 hours later with about 70 to 80 bedbugs, bitting the mess out of me. The ones that actually woke me up out of a dead sleep, were the three that crawled into my mouth. True story.
that's horrifying
Congratulations young man you and your tribe keep up the good work
I lived in a half way house for a time (I was homeless) that had a bedbug problem and they brought in a company that sealed the windows and doors and heated the apt. to 150 degrees for five hours. It took three days for the apt. to cool down so the AC would work, but hey no bedbugs.
missannjack
missannjack We use the same method in our firehouses. It works great and is safe, as we seem to have to do it over every year or two.
@@Reckec you are nice
My brother and sister in law did that. It cost them 3000.00. All new beds and they were even behind the switch plates and electrical socket plates. My nephews room walls looked like major crime scene there was so much blood on them. It was horrifying!!!
Nah... Just take all your cloths off, drop them on the bed. Walk outside and burn the house down at dusk, standing in front of it screaming "SATAN CLAIMS THY DOMAIN. YOU WERE ALL WARNED. NOW PAY WITH THINE DAMNATION!!!!" Laughing like a madman. When the neighbors call the police simply say there was a spider. :)
.............what the fuck O.o
+Nathan Trone
Notice me senpai! Notice me!
Amen.
Nathan Trone that's it
Nathan Trone I shall do that
I found out what works best for me is to put extremely hot water (not scolding or boiling) directly on the bite AND when my skin is dry, I put rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball and I put that directly on the bite. I always wear surgeon style skintight rubber gloves on when I use the rubbing alcohol. After the itching stops and my skin starts to heal, I put lotion on it.
Rubbing alcohol is good on all bug bites
I found bedbugs in my XBOX HEADPHONES!
They were biting my ears and I had no clue because I’d never had to deal with anything like them. These things are CRAZY!
Call the orkin man
This kinda makes me want to wash my bedsheets now...
Howdy!
Do it plz I am to
If u do wash it in hot water then they cant live
w H Y A R E Y O U H E R E
They have to be in high heat for a minimum of 60-90 minutes, or alternatively, for things you can’t heat, seal them in a bag and put the items in the freezer for 2-4 days.
I wouldn't wish bed bugs upon anyone. They're worse than every other pest in my book. Hell, I'd rather move into a place with a wasp nest in the front porch awning than another apartment with a bed bug problem.
ProcrastPerfection roaches are
Yes they are a menace the only insects that mess with you're sleep I went days with sleep because I found out they were in my couches bed and sometimes the chairs too
dude i'm home looking at my bed and just having this feeling in my stomach
Oh my gosh that's amazing I didn't know that!! Half of all people do t respond to the bites at all!!!
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Took me 2 yrs to get rid of them. Threw out all mattresses AND furniture. I even found them in between book pages. My thoughts were always everything has a natural predator. I thought about spider's I rather have a house full of them. I was getting stink bugs ( a few through the winter ) and it almost seems that they possibly had something to do with their disappearance. But I can't prove it. I heard they are almost impossible to get rid of. But it's been yrs and they're gone. Thank God !
Diatomaceous earth (FOOD GRADE). May be found at local hardware stores.
All you have to do is put a your mattress cover over your bed and use your bed sheet. I also just this on my floor 5 to 10 minutes before vacuuming my carpet. When It com to washing my bedding I use a powder detergent since most of them have some bleach in it and wash all my white bedding in 1/2 cup of bleach
Well... Time to burn down the house
Anruwe - I am actually thinking that is what I need to do. I thought I got rid of them last year after a visitor dropped some off and now I just found out my couch is infested with them.
Anruwe
Anruwe - lol funny but NOT funny! Wherever you go,they will follow. You must kill and destroy them and their eggs.
I was thinking the same thing!!! Hahahahah
Use food grade diatomaceous earth or baking soda under furniture and rugs, in doorways and closed window sills, in the nooks and crannies, in closets, cabinets, car, shed. Leave for a week. Vacuum with a shop vac. Do it every month for at least three months of every year.
Had a few bedbugs a long time ago. I would catch them and drop them into molten wax and watch them expand and bubble. It was so satisfying.
ScrubLordAnjoo wtf
ScrubLordAnjoo my brother did kind of the same thing. He would catch a cockroach remove their legs and antennas, watch them suffer for a while then step on them. He was a weird kid
They deserve it. Blood suckers.
ScrubLordAnjoo Chances are if you SAW a few,, you had a lot. Shocking how it seems you got rid of them,, from how you talk
Wt....u weird XD I get paper, pick them up with paper, put in cup, throw away cup, put cup in bag, but bag in garbage and then throw away garbage can
I will just sit in this chair tonight :).
Beds: exist
Bed bugs: it’s free real estate
You just HAD to throw that last part in, didn't you. I'm going to have so much trouble sleeping tonight...
Daracaex so you don't notice IF they're there; and even if they are they're not carrying sny diseases; you don't get itchy, you don't have bitemarks. For all you know, they're not there, even if they ARE there. ...So what does it matter if you have them or not?
+Daracex That's a pretty selfish outlook. These little bastards can hide in your clothes meaning you end up carrying them to another persons house and they get infested. Even inf you don't, most people will react to bed bugs, some people are even allergic to their bites, I'm talking full blown anaphylaxis in their sleep. The bigger the infestation the bigger the risk of you spreading them around, the longer you leave them the more they breed and spread through your home; every crack, nook, and cranny. If you live in a rental property like an apartment, kiss your deposit good bye, maybe even pay some penalties, because you failed to report them. If you live in a house and are ever looking to sell, enjoy spending thousands of dollars on extermination because no one is going to buy until they're gone. So if you do notice them do something about it, and do so early.
Daracaex ikr i feel like they where going into my mouth and out without me feeling it :( its so disgusting i dont have them but ughh , by the way you can get your bed warm all the time so they hate it and dont go in it the first place if you haven't seen them but scared of them ..
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Daracaex i was reading this comment as the video talked about that so i didnt hear anything he said. Well, now i know to not rewatch he vid. And im sleeping on the carpet tonight...
"DO NOT SET YOUR BED FRAME ON FIRE." Don't tell me how to live, Scishow!
I gotta say I've never had bed bugs (knock on wood) nor do I personally know anyone who has had them.
I didn't even know what they looked like until I saw them in videos. They're much larger than I thought they would be!
Dancing Delilah don’t come in here with that positivity and good luck. There are ppl in here suffering😩...I’m just jealous. I pray you NEVER experience them fr✊🏾
I just joked to my kid, don’t let the bed bugs bite a few weeks ago and in my 36 years never knew what a bed bug was until this past week. I think I might have picked one up in a changing room, is the only thing I can come up with. People are joking about paranoia and PTSD from bed bugs, but it’s no joke. We’re going through the process of eliminating them now. 😭
They’re quite smaller in person. And about 100000000+ times more annoying 😒
I have just got them!👺
If i threw my shirt at you you'd get like 12 instantly lol
My household had an infestation once. My aunt got a piece of furniture that had them and didn't heed the warnings, thinking she could 'clean them out'. Spoiler: she couldn't.
After a Google search, I found out heat kills them pretty readily. What we did was rent 2 heaters for the house. The construction-grade 'afterburner' style heaters. We went a little overboard with the treatment, heating the house to 150 degrees farenheit for about 8 hours. This was in summer conditions in the southeast US, so it was very hot outside as well. It took a day for the house to cool off. We first opened the windows and turned on all the fans we had. After dark we thought it was safe enough to turn on the A/C without destroying the unit. The next day we set off some bug bombs and when the house was safe to enter again we put diotomaceous earth in all the crevices in the house.
As I said before, it was overkill, but only cost us about a hundred dollars (versus thousands) and a weekend and have been BB free since then.
Pro tip: REMOVE ALL YOUR BLINDS AND CANDLES BEFORE HEAT TREATMENT. If you don't you'll have to replace them because they'll melt.
You did the right thing, it was not over kill, actually bed bugs do die in heat 150% or higher for about 3 days, so good job
A couple of years ago I had a run in with bed bugs... it was terrible. My boyfriend at the time had a daughter and she had one of her friends over for a sleep over. Her friend brought over her pillow and blankets and spent the weekend with us and as she was gathering her things at the end of the weekend she nonchalantly said that her family had bed bugs. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time and chalked it up to "things kids say", but after about two weeks I started getting these strange welts all over my arms and legs and waking up feeling things crawling on me. My boyfriend thought I was losing it until one night I couldn't take it anymore and started ripping the sheets off the bed and pulling the mattress off the frame like a mad person... Low and behold I found the little monsters wedged in the seams of our sheets, pillowcases, mattress, and the wood bed frame. We tried everything to get rid of them but to no avail, finally out of desperation I bought this stuff call Vets Plus Flea and Tick spray made out of peppermint and clove oil after talking with my father and he had told me about an old timey trick of using peppermint oil to get rid of bed bugs. The Vets Plus did the trick. After about 2 weeks of spraying everything down every 2 days we eradicated them from our home.
86%+ isopropyl alcohol works like a charm.
@@louishamilton1710 The extermater and some money.
Works like charm
@@Mountainlion118 If You can afford it!
The flea and tick spray kills the bed bugs?
@@flowerpower7619 I can't 🥲
You gave me the warning too late now my bed is on fire HALP.
well you just hacked ur bed into a bbq pit eh ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
take a deep breath of feelium
Why would you put your linens in a freezer for a few weeks when you can throw them in the dryer for 15 mins?
Ikr? Or like put them in a hot car if you don't have a dryer? Freezing it seems unnecessary
@@kuromi8384 freezing wont do anything either. If yall watched the video, they can slow down their metabolism and go into hibernation
@@M0rbiddd2 ok then put them in a dryer????
You have to test your dryer to make sure it exceeds 115 deg if it doesn't your just keeping them warm. you have to sustain that temp for at least 30 min to kill them. then you have stuff with dead bed bugs in them yummy!!
@@jestergilbjo107 better dead than alive
if you are lucky and you have an harvester ant colony on your property be Shure to take care of them they will serve you well, (these are red and black ants with large dome shaped nests) if you find bed bugs in your bed, blankets, mattress or other moveable furniture, place them on or near the harvester ant colony they will clean those items far better than any chemical bug killer, this was one of the main methods early fur traders and mountain men used to keep their cloths free of ticks and other insects that infested their lives.
I had a bad bed bug infestation a few years ago, any time we sat on our couch, 10 minutes later, they would come out and bite the shit out of our legs. After a little online researching, I found out that rubbing alcohol kills bed bugs. So I went to the store, bought 6 bottles of rubbing alcohol and spread that shit all over the living room. Few hours later and all the bed bugs died. We even kept the couch up until a few days ago because it's falling apart.
*WE ARE GAMBLING OUR BLOOD EVERY TIME WE GO TO SLEEP*
Sithy Haleema Zawahir Nagur only if you dirty
Itz_Echo they come to your house no matter if you’re clean or dirty. They don’t care.
I SCREAMED🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 take the blood(jokes) but leave my skin ALONE! These bites/scars are so embarrassing. I look like a damn heroin addict🤦🏾♀️😩
Lockawannablu3z omg 🤣😂
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH EVERYWHERE.
Fantastic video! Thank you!
This is my second time having them. I threw my mattress and bed frame outside. I think I’m just going to throw it away
Sounds like you didn't continue to eradicate them fully, so they didn't "come back" they just reproduced more.This is how to get rid of them without using toxic chemicals or paying a boatload for pest control, Make sure you follow the instructions. You will be glad you did:
Vacuum everything (including between mattresses, every day until they are gone, and then once a week after that. Wash clothes and sheets in lavender pine sol. And the thing that will actually get rid of them is to use food grade diatomacious earth (DE) - it is sold in 15 pound bags at Tractor Supply for about 15 bucks - get food grade, which, by the way, do *not* eat - and a wall-duster (it is like a small tool that blows the DE in a fine powder, costs about 15 bucks also. If you just chunk it around, the bugs walk around it, and it won't kill them, so you sprinkle it in a fine dust using the duster tool). Instructions below.
If you have pets, I don't know what breathing it in will do to them, but, when I have used it, I dust it around before I am ready to leave the house for a few hours, and I stay away so it can settle. I have not had any breathing issues with this, but if anyone in the house has asthma or COPD or anything like that, I would only do it when they are gone for the whole day, and maybe not even then because I don't know how it might affect them. It basically makes the whole house a bit dusty for a few hours.
Anyway, you take off your electric plates (off the walls and light switch plates) and use the duster to blow it into the walls, and also between your mattresses, under the bed, and around all the edges of all the walls in the entire house. Re-dust just like this once a week for a few weeks, then once a month, even after you don't see any more bugs. It also kills roaches and spiders. If it gets in a clump on the carpet, do *not* rub it in or swipe it up, you will make a stain - just vacuum it up.
I know it seems like bed bugs aren't that harmful, but let me tell you a story. A long time ago when I was around 5 or 6, me and my family went to stay at a shabby hotel for some reason or another, and me and my sister had a separate room. Our mom tucked us into bed, we left the lights on bc we were small and scared of the dark, and we started to go off to sleep. All was well. Until the sheets started moving. I opened my eyes and there were millions, MILLIONS of bugs crawling all over us, the bedsheets, the walls, the floors, literally everywhere. I don't think I screamed that much in my life. We were both standing on top of the dressers on the other side of the room by the time our mom and grandparents burst in. It was a nightmare. Pretty sure my sister's legs were bitten all the way up to her thighs. TRUST ME. You want to get rid of bed bugs.
I guess Planet Earth feels the same way about us. Horrible.
I'm seriously never sleeping in a hotel or anywhere again and I'm burning my house
Horrible mate
Cool story bro tell it again "millions"
Sounds worse than Amittyville horror....and I'm NOT joking.
This shit has me paranoid af in my bed right now... 😳
Lord Saiven 😂 don't worry
Your Spongebob pfp explains it all
NO CHEMICALS! USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH.
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Thanks very much, for let us know about it
I’m not sure where they came from but I found them in my couch, after a couple weeks of it getting worse every day. They hid between the pillows on the back and would crawl up and bite my arm while I was watching tv. I couldn’t feel a thing but had what looked like a rash on my forearm because they always bit in the same area where the pillows met and I was in the habit of resting my arm there. I killed them all by washing the pillow covers in hot water and using some poison spray I got from Home Depot in the cracks. I also sprayed around all the floorboards.
i was shook for the whole video, i dont even want to live anymore, what kind of universe am i living in...
_ WereWolf_Engine _ get over yourself. We live in a biosphere. They were here first and they’ll be here when we go extinct.
@@rainbird8370 you know what your talking about
@@rainbird8370 i dont think werewolves really existed
snake he must be dumb
FIVE YEARS AGO and I still have PTSD. Not exaggerating. My info said only about 10% of the population is immune to their bites. I am not part of that 10%. For 6 months I thought I was allergic to the bed or the detergent or the blanket or the stuffing or even my bf. My bf and his mom said it was all In my head and hives are a mental induced reaction so I was "crazy". I have no problem with blood or guts. I avoid drama if possible. I rarely cry. But after this experience, I freak when I see fuzz cuz it might be one. I cried this summer when I first saw a tick because I thought it might be one and it was on me. If I get a mosquito bite, I can't sleep and check myself daily for three weeks to be sure it wasn't a bed bug. If I have a hive I frantically try to prove to myself what the allergen was so I can tell myself it wasn't one of them. The thing was on my bed and came RUNNING AT ME a hell of a lot faster than you reported they can move! You also didn't mention that their eggs are about the same size and appearance of common table salt. I went over everything in my home with baby wipes and alcohol spray, heat AND diatomaceous earth-which I applied using a 1/2" paintbrush to every nook,cranny, groove and crack those flat little f@ckers hide in as well as along all of the baseboards where rugs meet walls. I did that in addition to the exterminator and the bug-proof bed protectors. I had not only every single inch of everything I own to clean to ensure they never returned, but also four kids and all their toys and my lazy bf's stuff too. Every spine of my 500+ library of books had to be inspected and shot with alcohol and covers wiped. Every video case had to be wiped down inside and outside. Anything electric had to be sprayed and bagged. Every stitch of clothing for a family of six, including anything packed away, had to be washed and dried and bagged to prevent reinfestation. Paper products had to be inspected because they hide there. I threw out about 5 grand worth of electronics because they had casings in there and I couldn't get them apart enough to get them clean enough to ensure they were disinfected. The list is so ridiculous. To this day, the clothes in my bureaus are still in plastic bags "just in case". I cried when I got home from my job at a hotel because they reportedly had them there, not where I was, just there in the same building. I sprayed myself with alcohol, including bottom of my shoes, to make sure I didn't bring any home with me. I am so thankful I no longer work there, it is truly a relief mentally. My bf's uncle moved 6 states away because he had gotten them (10 years earlier and before we met) and couldn't get them out of his house even after numerous treatments. This is not a normal bug. These things are hell on earth. I thought the things I read on line were written by overly dramatic super sensitive people until it happened to me. Like an extreme germs phobic person would, I dread all the things I used to love: flea markets, movie theaters, going anywhere-even to other people's homes, because these bugs could be anywhere and that's how people usually get them, from these places.
A M Brown Oh my god same. People will never understand what it's like to go through this until they go through it. They act like you're just crazy. It definitely changed me... in the worst way possible. People get annoyed with how obsessed I was talking about bed bugs. They don't get how it was waking up to millions of terrible red huge bites and blood stains In the middle of the night. I had to throw 16 full bags away of perfectly good things because I simply didn't have the time nor the energy to search and clean everything before my spray. For me as well trying to go to the places I used to love I don't anymore. Haven't seen a movie in months . Simply because I don't trust anything anymore... People are careless and don't care about spreading them which makes me mad. It changed my life for the worst. I completely understand .
It’s been two years since I got them from a neighbor next door at my first apartment I got with my husband. I found one on my foot when I was watching my new born daughter sleep on the bed. It was horrible I ended up with horrible postpartum depression and quit my job. I ended my lease and left everything we had in our room. Her baby clothes, bags, shoes, dresser, bed, and electronics. We had to sleep in the living room for two weeks and it was hell. Finally my mom stepped in and told us to move in with her. All our other things were sprayed and steamed by a exterminator and put into storage. I haven’t been able to move out my moms house for fear of going through that experience again. I never want anymore children because my first experience was horrible always checking myself and the room with a flashlight. Instead of enjoying my baby when she was tiny. They ruined my life. I also only go to drive in theaters because of fear.
"Hives are a mentally induced reaction"
I think they need some education. Hives are NEVER a product of the mind.
I completely understand the fear of bed bugs, me and my kids went through the same hell in 2013, I did my research on them and we left everything behind, clothes, toys, furniture and left, to this day I cringe when I hear people talk about them, that was the worst experience of our lives, the place I'm renting now had them in it last year with previous renters and I'm scared to death that the bugs are going to come back, I never want to go through that again!!! 🙁
I had to take Benadryl at night to control the swelling
I have hairy legs, it always feels like there was something crawling on my leg in bed. But I would just brush it off, until I started to notice blood stains on the bed sheets. At that point, I'm still unsure of what I was looking at, so I ignored it. What tipped me off was when I noticed one of them in my bed, squashed under my weight. I analysed it but I had no idea what I was looking at - until something possessed me and remembered the "Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite" line.
Don't ignore the signs people.
I think i feel them in all my hairy places actually. It's goddamn disturbing lol.
Use food grade diatomaceous earth or baking soda under furniture and rugs, in the nooks and crannies, under your bedsheets, in closets, cabinets, car, shed. Leave for a week. Vacuum with a shop vac. Do it every month for at least three months of every year. Every month is better.
Nice documtory on DDT. This guy offers no hope. Diligence and diatomaceous earth is awesome.
Yep. Worked for us. Lot of work. Laundry and vacuuming. Cant believe my cat survived all the DE dust but it destroyed the bed bugs. I was anxious for about a year after cuz I was still afraid that some had survived.
Its so gross to think that these things were feeding on me but that is how i killed them was to offer myself as a sacrifice and make the go through a gauntlet of DE to get to me.
USE FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH OR BAKING SODA EVERYWHERE ON A REGULAR BASIS, ABOUT ONCE A MONTH. IT KILLS ALL CRAWLING BUGS. DO NOT BREATHE IT IN. VACUUM UP WITH A SHOP VAC!