Solving Bed Bugs Within Buildings
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2016
- In this episode Jeff will highlight Rutgers University research that demonstrated how to manage bed bugs within highly infested apartment buildings. In a recent study Rutgers demonstrated that through the use of monitors and a basic treatment protocol you can reduce building-wide infestations from near 15% to 2% within one year. Often people are not reporting infestations within these buildings and these infestations serve as reservoirs for building-wide problems. Finding these infestations through the use of monitors can help management companies get on-top of bed bug problems and truly improve conditions with buildings and entire communities.
Dealing with bed bugs this way reminds me of a dog chasing its tail. You can never get rid of all the bed bugs because they migrate throughout the building. Even if all the people left, and the entire building was treated to kill all the bed bugs, when the people returned, someone would bring bed bugs back. It might take a little while, but soon the bed bugs in that person's apartment would walk down the hall or go through the adjoining wall or electrical wires etc. into the neighbor's apartment. Two apartments would be infested with bed bugs.
The two apartments could be treated with heat or chemicals. Some of the bed bugs would escape and migrate into new locations. In the meantime, someone else in the building had a guest who carried bed bugs into their apartment, or one of the tenants works or travels where there are bed bugs, and brings them home.
The solution? One apartment building owner hired someone to drill holes in the walls between the apartments and other rooms so diatomaceous earth could be blown into the voids. Also the crawl space between the floors and ceilings was treated with the blown in powder. As long as the powder stays dry, it will kill bed bugs for years after they walk on it. Any bed bugs moving through these places to migrate into adjoining apartments will die.
Diatomaceous earth can also be applied along the baseboards of hallways to help prevent bed bugs from moving into adjoining apartments. The laundry room and lobby are other locations where DE can be applied in places where it can stay dry and undisturbed.
Managers can show the tenants how to get rid of the bed bugs in their own apartments, and maybe supply the powder to apply in a very thin coating onto the bed, sofa, and easy chairs. Tenants can buy a Sansbug or other good BUG TENT to sleep inside on top of the bed during the treatment.
The perimeter of the apartment needs to be treated with a thin layer of diatomaceous earth to prevent new bed bugs from entering the unit.
Bed bugs feed only on fresh blood from a live host. HUMANS ARE THEIR SOURCE OF FOOD. At night the bed bugs will smell the sleeping human and sneak out of their hiding places in the apartment to have a drink of blood. After walking across the DE, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET INSIDE THE TENT TO BITE. The powder clinging to their exoskeletons will slowly dehydrate them. They will shrivel up and die.
If the bed bugs have not been disturbed, by chemical pesticides or other repellents, they like to feed every 5 days or so. It won't take long for all of them to feel safe enough to leave their hiding places and walk to a human.
None of them will stay away. Soon there will be no live bed bugs anyplace in the apartment, and no work for the tenant to do. All they have to do is sleep on the bed to lure the bed bugs to walk across the lethal powder so they die.
It's IMPORTANT to continue sleeping on the bed with its DE for at least a month because new babies can hatch from BED BUG EGGS a few weeks after their parents have died. They have to be destroyed before they grow into adults to clear the entire bed bug infestation.
Careful monitoring for signs of bed bugs and frequent, thorough vacuuming of beds, sofas, easy chairs can help to prevent future infestations, and knowing how to get rid of them can reduce the worry of getting bed bugs again.
Another weapon in the war against bed bugs is GARLIC. Make your own body repel all insects by taking garlic capsules every day. Bed bugs will avoid you, leave and find someone else to bite. In an infested building, it might be your only salvation.ua-cam.com/video/fHFfBtJL_3U/v-deo.html
another great video
I thought they can still go into hiding though. My apartment building is infested and I’ve talked to several people all on floors who had them too who have had several heat treatments done and spraying and they still have them. How is it affective to check all apartments with eyes if you can’t always see them with ur eyes in inspections. And they hide in the walls away from the heat even when the places do get treated
My apartment building is infested with bed bugs and the management is only having reported problems taken care of. It has gotten so bad i can smell them as soon as i walk into the front lobby. Im positive the apartments are now worthless to sell and i feel trapped because I cannot sell nor would i put a family in these conditions without warning. Can i sue the property owners?
Hi Jeff, I have bought an old apartment which has turned out to be badly infested with bed bugs after years of negligence. During the refurbishment, I had the bed bug control company here three times. However, since the refurbishment is finished, I have still seen three bugs alive and two dead. Do you think they might have spread throughout the building and is it enough to e.g. make a duct tape-barrier around the door frame and the threshold to keep them out? I rather do not want to contact the management because I am worried about compensation claims. Now I have already ordered some of the products that you recommended, because I think they are probably better than those available in Europe. Thank you for your helpful advice!
sorry for missing this comment, duct-tape will not prevent bed bugs from spreading, honestly you have a difficult situation to deal with as there is no way to 100% prevent them from spreading and no way to guarantee they are all dead in the vacant apt
can bed bugs travel through a sharing wall to another apartment
yes, they often use electrical or plumbing conduits or walk out the front door and down the hall to the adjacent apartments
just wondering if you don't have one already can you make a video on that explaining how they do that if you already have one please show it to me thank you