Where can i find bedbug sparay?

Question

Where can i find bedbug sparay?

Answer 1

scrub your bed with bleach water

or

A Little Bit About BedBugs:

Bed Bugs at one time were not as severe as a pest as in the past, due to insecticides and increased sanitation. However, due to the increased use of baits rather than insecticide sprays for ant and cockroach control in the past decade , bed bug infestations have increased.

Currently this insect can be a pest wherever sanitary conditions are poor, or if there are birds or mammals nesting on or near a house. International travel and commerce are thought to facilitate the spread of these insect hitchhikers, because eggs, young, and adult bed bugs are readily transported in luggage, clothing, bedding, and furniture. There are several species of bed bugs, all of which are pests of humans and domestic animals.

The Common Bed Bug prefers a human host. Related species, such as the bat bug and bird bug, prefer to feed on bats, birds, and other wild hosts, but will also feed on humans if the opportunity arises or the preferred host dies or leaves the roost.

How did I get Bed Bugs?

Since bed bugs hide in small crevices, they can travel with luggage, furniture, clothing, boxes, ect. This is how they move between hotels, homes and apartments. Used furniture, particularly bed frames and mattresses, are of greatest risk of harboring bed bugs and their eggs. They may be present in vacant apartments hiding in cracks and crevices since they may survive months without a blood meal. Bed bugs may travel between nearby apartments through voids in walls and holes though which wires and pipes pass. In a few cases, bats and/or birds may introduce and maintain bed bugs and their close relatives (bat bugs and bird bugs). All nests that harbor birds and bats should be removed.

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How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs

Step I : Pre-treatment Procedures

Reduce clutter to inspection easier.

If you dismantle the bed frames, you may expose additional bedbug hiding sites.

Remove drawers from desks and dressers and turn furniture over, if possible, to inspect and clean all hiding spots.

Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs.If the fabric is torn ( possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying.

Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and moldings to further reduce harborages.

Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120°F minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linen for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.

Thoroughly clean the infested rooms .Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.

Vacuum in area of bed bug harborages with an vacuum attachment. Vacuum along baseboards, nearby furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards,bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding as well as the edges of the carpets(particularly along the tack strips) are key areas to vacuum. A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration.

Discard vacuum cleaner bag in a sealed plastic bag when finished.

Caulk cracks and crevices in the building exterior and also repair or screen openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.

Do I Have to Throw Out the Mattress?

This question would be answered upon the condition of the mattress or size of infestation.

If there are holes or tears in the gauze fabric or fabric of the mattress, bed bugs and eggs may be inside, as well as outside. There are restrictions on how beds can be treated with insecticides.

The following residual insecticides or dusts are labeled to spray or dust mattresses: Tempo Ultra SC, Suspend SC and Drione Drust.

Tempo Ultra SC, Suspend SC and Drione Dust.

Delta Dust has a label to dust the mattress, but must be vacuumed up before sleeping on it according to label directions, so you would be vacuuming up all the residual dust. A preferred dust for mattresses would be Drione Dust, which may be left on the mattress.

After the mattress is vacuumed , scrubbed and treated with either an approved concentrated insecticide or dust, it can be enclosed in a zippered mattress encasements such as that used for house dust mites. These zippered mattress covers , available at bedding and allergy supply stores deny bed bugs access to other hiding areas. It would be helpful to encase not only the mattress, but the box spring as well. It is important to treat the zipper area as well when you follow the spraying and dusting procedures. Any bed bugs remaining on the mattress or box springs will be trapped inside the encasement. Leave the cover in place for a year or so since bed bugs can live for a long time without a blood meal.



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Step II: Bed Bug Inspection: Use Flashlight and Magnifying Glass



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To inspect well, it may be helpful to briefly understand  Bed Bug Diet  and   Bedbug Habits  

Because the bed bugs may be difficult to see with the naked eye, we recommend an industrial powered magnifier such as Carson's Dual View Magnifier.



Dual View Industrial Magnifier

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Bedbug Pictures :What does a bed bug look like?



Adult Male Bed Bug

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Adult Female Bed Bug

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Bed Bug Nymph

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The common bed bug is visible to the naked eye. Adult bed bugs are brown to reddish-brown, oval-shaped, flattened, and about 1/4 to 5/8 inch long. Their flat shape enables them to readily hide in cracks and crevices. After a blood meal, the body elongates and becomes swollen. Eggs are not known to be placed on the host's body but are found on surfaces near where the host sleeps.



Bed bugs have a beak- like piercing , sucking mouthparts. The adults have small, stubby, nonfunctional wing pads. Newly hatched nymphs are nearly colorless, becoming brownish as they mature. Nymphs have the general appearance of adults. Eggs are white and about 1/32 inch long.

Inspection:

Look in any place that offers darkness, isolation and protection. These bugs will often wander. Inspect adjoining rooms where an infestation is found. Even when the bed bugs themselves cannot be found, their hiding places can be located by looking for the spots of fecal material they often leave in easily visible places.



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Dark spots of bed bug excrement on a mattress.

(M. Potter, Univ. of Kentucky)

Fecal spots and the bloody spots(looks like rust) left on sheets and pillowcases when engorged bugs are crushed serve as sure signs of infestation. Adult bed bugs are about 1/4-inch long and reddish-brown, with oval, flattened bodies. Bed bugs prefer to hide in cracks and crevices during the daytime and come out to feed on the host's blood at night, usually while the host is sleeping. Because they can flatten their bodies, they can fit in very small crevices, specially around the bed area. They are found in habitual hiding places, preferably close to a blood meal. Even though the their preference is to be close they will travel several feet However if necessary, they will crawl several feet to obtain a blood meal. Initial infestations tend to be around beds, but the bugs eventually may become scattered throughout a room, occupying any crevice or protected location. They also can spread to adjacent rooms or apartments.

Look for areas close by where the bed bugs are biting. Main areas of inspection are cracks and crevices in head and foot boards and attached side railings and supports. Look for any cracks or crevices where bed bugs may crawl into to hide. If the top of the mattress has any rips , the bed bugs may hide there as well. Look also in your bed springs, both top and bottom for any rips that might shelter these bugs.

Inspection Check List:

Cracks and crevices in head and foot boards, attached side railings and supports

Inspect mattresses top, sides and bottom. Check all buttons, seams and rips.

Inspect electrical switch plates, pictures on walls, wall posters

Inspect cracks in plaster or seams in wall paper.

Inspect electrical appliances-radios, phones, televisions, ect.,looking in hiding places.

Inspect tack strips under wall-to-wall carpeting and behind baseboards

Inspect secondhand beds, bedding, and furniture. The newer better built mattresses do not offer as much shelter and protection for the bed bugs to hide.



Getting Rid Of Bed Bugs-How To Kill Bed Bugs

Step III: Bed Bug Treatment : Sprays and Dusts

We recommend use of spray insecticides and dusts for bedbug treatment. It is important to use a residual insecticide. The residual stays for a length of time.

You can get these at discounted rates in be form of kits at Bed Bug Kits

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Apply residual liquid, aerosol or dust residual insecticides such as Cyonara 9.7 , CB D Force Aerosol       and Drione Dust.

Most likely, you will need to treat 3-4 times in a space of a couple months, as you cut the cycle.

Residual Insecticide : (Cyonara 9.7, CB D Force Aerosol, and Drione Dust) Usage:

Cyonara 9.7 Usage : Mix 12 ml.(measurements on the bottle)of Cyonara 9.7 with one gallon of water(Remember to use what you mix-within 24 hours.) Adjust the spray pattern to a mist by turning the nozzle. A fine mist is best for most spraying, but you may need to use a stream to get into some cracks and crevices. Spray around and under the bed and along the baseboards near the bed. After removing the drawers from the furniture, the inside of the cabinetry should be sprayed as well as the bottom and sides of the drawers. Do not treat the inside of the drawers. If needed the clothe

Answer 2

I don't know where you can buy it but there are lots of things you can make with household products such as

Use salt sprinkle to kill certain bugs...or salt water to spray..dehydrates and dries some bugs

Lemon and water...make into spray as well...

Do a search on yahoo. for natural bug killers or how to naturally kill bedbugs

Answer 3

Zainab,

A good one is available online at ecoginesis.com and is called Kleen-Free.  it is used to control  bedbugs when it comes into contact with them and it is not a pesticide or insecticide so it is safe for you  to use - on its won or in conjunction wiht the insecticides that were mentioned above as many bedbugs are now immune to the chemicals that are recommended by PCOs.

it comes in concetrated form or premixed.  You will need a lot to do an entire house and you will want to respray a few times.  I am sure they can help with how much you would need.

i think they are located just outside of Toronto so they could get you some fairly quickly I would think.

Good luck.

Answer 4

dont listen to first answer...dint read second to close to a long one...burn ur mattress...buy a new one..or better yet..sleep on the couch