Saturday, April 12, 2008

If You Discover You

don't sleep anywhere except your bed And don't move your bed out of the bedroom. If you start sleeping in front of the TV on the living room couch, they'll follow you there and infest the couch. As soon as they sense sense the fumes from the bomb, they will scurry away to escape. Eventually, some will return to your bedroom.You're going to hate me for saying this, but..Don't toss your furniture out I know some people do, and if you live in New York City, you've probably seen couches and mattresses on the street, thrown away by bed bug victims.Never use a "bug bomb" to treat bed bugs Bed bugs are very small, and they can run as fast as ants.And here's an even better self-serving reason for not tossing your furniture: If you put an infested sofa on the street in front of your building, someone is going to take it. The rest will be waiting for you everywhere else. Listen, if you don't know what you are doing, you won't kill them.This applies not just to bug bombs. Sleep in the guest room, and they'll lay eggs in the guest bed.. And if you live in an apartment or condo, they may invade the your neighbor's place. It goes for any kind of do-it-yourself pest control plan in which you don't know exactly what the consequences will be.If you discover you have bed bugs, here is what to avoid. Keeping them there means that it will be easier and cheaper for your bed bug exterminator to kill them. It's often as easy as applying super-high temperature steam. That means that they will generally stay near the bed, or wherever it is you sleep. Bed bugs are basically lazy, and they will not stray far from you - their food source - if they can help it. And from there, they can easily crawl through the walls and potentially re-infest your place.. Sleep on the floor, they'll infest the rug. You'll just wind up chasing them away, and spreading them everywhere. But what if the person who takes it lives in your own building? Now you've just spread the bugs to your neighbor's unit. But furniture can be treated by an exterminator and saved. Considering how expensive new furniture is, treating it will be cheaper than tossing it. They will disappear into hallway, adjoining rooms, even inside the walls. Now you don't just have one room to treat - you have your whole house.What I am saying is that you have to stay in your bed, in your bedroom,.

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