New Jersey man sets house on fire trying to kill bedbugs

ap ^ | , June 14, 2013

[Buckeye McFrog]

He was on the right path but went about it in a dangerous way. There are professional companies that will come out and heat up a room or the whole house safely to 120+ degrees for about an hour or so which kills them and pretty much most any other bugs.

Honey, about your vinyl record collection...

[Joe 6-pack]

Assassin bugs are natural predators of bedbugs and other small insects. Just throw a few of these between your sheets, and you won't have any more problems with bedbugs...

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Slings and Arrows]

What do you throw in to get rid of the assassin bugs?

[bgill]

DE works on dog fleas, too.

Hartz dog flea shampoo used to list it also killed lice but they had to take it off the label because people used it to kill head lice. Oooh, can’t use a dog product on humans!

[Joe 6-pack]

"What do you throw in to get rid of the assassin bugs?"

You torch the mattress. It's the only way to be sure.

[MinuteGal]

He didn't need a heat gun, a space heater, a hair dryer and all that stuff to set his house ablaze.

We've got gazillions of fire ants here in Florida.

All he had to do was ask.

[Zhang Fei]

What’s wrong with bedbug spray from Home Depot?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Maybe a little excessive but probably effective.

[gonzo]

Love it! I first heard that one when I was in the Army, about 55 years ago ........................................................................ FRegards

[pepsionice]

You go and buy a $300 steam cleaner, and spend six hours doing the whole house. If you got holes in the bottom of your mattress or springs box....toss them and get a new set. Or you pay $700 for some bug guy to come and spray. But I’d be careful about pets in the house, and probably go the steam-cleaner way if you got pets.

[Neidermeyer]

If Keith Richards was in the house...he likely survived.
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Saw where in a recent interview Keef said he wouldn’t change a thing , experimenting with drugs and all... he can’t die , he’s been dead for 50 years already.

[Neidermeyer]

You go and buy a $300 steam cleaner.....pay $700 for some bug guy to come and spray.............
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The heat the house to 120+ answer is the way the pro’s do it ... but I’d just buy some DDT at the mexican food store (yeah it’s illegal but what do they know .. they just ship it in with the other stuff) and hit them with that..

[Slings and Arrows]

Of course.

[aimhigh]

Someone needs to develop a way to irradiate houses the same way they irradiate food, using robots.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Bedbugs great sensitivity is to heat. Adults die in 113F temperatures in 90 minutes, and 118F temperatures in 20 minutes, but eggs need 118F for 90 minutes. Usually this is done with space heaters and strong fans.

But bedbugs are also vulnerable to invisible UV-c light, which can penetrate many materials opaque to visible light.

So imagine the one-two punch of heat and light.