How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs

Until you are able to get rid of them totally, you may want to also try quick and effective homemade trapping methods.  One method you may want to try is coat-ing the legs of your furniture with petroleum jelly or some comparable petroleumjelly substance. This will catch some of the creepy crawlers as their bodies will stick to the petroleum and keep them from reaching your bed level while you aresleeping. This may allow you to get a good night’s rest. If you don’t have any petroleum, you may want to visit your local hardware and find some double-sided tape(such as carpet tape) to put around the legs of your furniture. You can also placethis inside your bed frame that cradles your box spring. It should be somethingthat is extremely sticky to the touch so that it will be effective in trapping their bodies. You can also make traps yourself by pouring mineral oil in a small containerand placing the foot of each bed in each container. A less messy method would beto coat four small containers with petroleum jelly in place of the mineral oil, and itwill be just as effective.

There are also glue boards which can be found in the pest control section ofyour favorite retailer. These are small individually wrapped boards with an extremely sticky glue substance that are used to trap bugs, and small rodents, i.e.mice. Before peeling the wax paper from the board, cut one of the boards into four quarter sections. After removing the wax paper, these can now be placed undereach of the four legs of chairs, sofas or loveseats. There are also simple do-it-yourself, homemade traps that can be used alongwith homemade materials that mimic carbon dioxide to attract and trap bed bugs.(For more information on this subject, do a simple online search using suchkeywords as: homemade, bed bug, traps, carbon dioxide etc.)