15 years
Check out this article on Bed bugs, apperantly the EPA is going to start looking into it.
http://news.aol.com/article/yikes-bedbugs-epa-looks-to-stop/426119?cid=14
Chemicals and procedures for bedbug control?
Pest Control
There's a Wiki page about bed bugs and pest control that doesn't have any info yet.
Does anyone have recommendations for specific chemicals or procedures for bedbug control that we could add to the Wiki?
Proposed content for the Wiki page -- please provide feedback :)
- Don't ever mention the word "bedbugs" at the front desk or anywhere within earshot of guests
- Have all the guests in the infested room run all their clothes/linens through the clothes dryer on high heat to kill the bugs/eggs. (no charge, obviously)
- Shut down the room and treat it (this part of the Wiki page should have specific steps on what to spray and how to do it safely)
- Refund the guest(s) for their stay, or at least a few nights. Keep them happy to reduce the chance of them writing horrible bedbug reviews that might show up in Google. (Even the best hostels/hotels can't always avoid bedbugs.)
Chemicals mentioned previously include Pest Master and Solfac Pro.
Gordo had a good tip about rotating chemicals.
Any other tips? After I make a basic outline, anyone will be able to edit the Wiki page.
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RANN948
10:18 PMApr 15 2009
Hate to say it, but people are right. "International travel" is a euphemism for "illegal immigrants". Colorado is full of exotic diseases brought over from Mexico - drug resistant diseases. Why? because they can buy antibiotics over the counter there. They treat themselves, but not completely, leading to drug resistant bugs. Now they're bringing real bugs.
I hope this moron gets bitten by vicious Mexican mutant bugs! :D
One more:
orange7146
09:44 PMApr 15 2009
"Increasing international travel has also helped them to hitchhike into the U.S." is the only sentence that truly addresses why bedbugs have returned to the United States! This is so frustrating because it's the same reason why small pox, polio, measles/mumps/rubella, the plague, and god knows what else will also return to the United States. It's because of all the immigrants going back and forth between their dumpy countries and the United States. How about THAT gets addressed?!?!
15 years
I hope this moron gets bitten by vicious Mexican mutant bugs! :D
Not the brightest people in the comments section...
15 years
Not the brightest people in the comments section...
***Dreaming of being Scotty, beaming those people into a Mexican slum and watching from the orbit how long they survive there***
15 years
Check out this article on Bed bugs, apperantly the EPA is going to start looking into it.
http://news.aol.com/article/yikes-bedbugs-epa-looks-to-stop/426119?cid=14
This is good news.
Doesn't seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it's becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky hotels.
Shocking, rich people get bitten by bugs in their swanky hotels.
Maybe that is what´s needed to get some serious research started. Swanky hotels are willing to pay swanky cash to get rid of the bugs. Finally, there´s money to be made for the pharmaceutical industry, so let´s hope we´ll have effective chemicals soon.
15 years
Finally, there´s money to be made for the pharmaceutical industry, so let´s hope we´ll have effective chemicals soon.
I think simple non-chemical things could be done also, like making it illegal to put mattresses on the sidewalk for trash pickup without marking them (e.g., spray paint).
I worked at one hostel where the owner would secretly drive around and pick up discarded mattresses from the hospital dumpster and then put them in the dorm rooms.
When there was a bedbug outbreak in a dorm room the mattress would be put on the side of the road for trash pickup.
In the middle of the night, meth addicts would come by and steal the discarded mattress. Several days later they would sell the mattress back to the hostel's owner for $20.
(I couldn't figure out why my mattress smelled so bad when I arrived at this hostel, but later found out about this problem from one of the maintenance workers who told me this story. The hostel eventually started spray painting the mattresses when they were discarded so that the owner couldn't buy them back -- long story.)
I think that reusing trash mattresses is common in some places...
15 years
Has anyone seen this?
http://www.bedbugbarrier.com.au/
It's an interesting idea, but I think there is more than one way for bed bugs to get back and forth between the floor/wall and the bed.
It would be useful if you could easily inspect the traps for dead bedbugs.
15 years
It would be useful if you could easily inspect the traps for dead bedbugs.
Good idea. I´m sure you can because you have to replace the wax once in a while.
15 years
I know what they mean, but does anyone else see humor in a product that is specifically designed to starve a little creature to death describing itself as "environmentally friendly?"
15 years
i had a bed bug problem BEFORE i opened my hostel. we fully renovated the existing rooms, ripped up the carpet, removed skirting boards etc, so that all the bugs vacated the accomodation, and went to my office, the only place with carpet. i ended up with over 70 bites in one day. i put bug bombs in over night, steam vac'd the carpet and got a pest control service in to do the whole place. they are gone now, but there is nothing worse than those painful bites, so im getting monthly sprays to ensure they dont come back.
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