Fighting Bed Bugs On Your Own

Spray exterminates bed bugs but also works on fleas and other pests.

Fighting bed bugs on your own.

Foggers should not be your only method of bed bug control. Rub some essential oil onto your bed frame. Interceptors are special platforms or cups that are purchased to prevent bed bugs from climbing on to your bed. Improper use can harm your health or cause a fire or explosion.

Run your vacuum across your mattress inside the bed frame under your bed along your baseboards and even your headboard. Use foggers bug bombs only with extreme care and only if bed bugs are listed on the label. Spray is completely pet safe and since it s water based with safe ingredients it s also not toxic if your pet happens to lick it. Listed below are a few ways you can use essential oils to get rid of bed bugs.

Mix an insecticide labeled for use on bed bugs such as temprid fx with water in a pump sprayer using the ratio found on the product label to create a bed bug spray. Make a simple spray by adding a few drops essential oil into a spray bottle filled with cup 120 milliliters of water. An interceptor can be as simple as a sticky card placed under a bed post sticky and messy. Hello lynn bed bugs typically don t feed on pets and prefer humans.

Do not broadcast spray an entire carpet or floor. Add a few drops of essential oil into your laundry the next time you wash your bedding. 31 jan 9 50 pm. Spray onto baseboards in corners around door and window frames around bed frames and under furniture.

Better are one of the commercial pitfall traps made specifically for this purpose.