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There are quite a few inaccurate statement here. I wasn't aware of this page - corrected the opening comments about bed bugs staying near the host as this is quite incorrect as it was.They like to be near the host, but will spread extensively as population builds up. I don't have time today to make corrections, but will return and carefully edit so that the information is accurate.. Right now..lots of things not quite correct or that give the wrong impression. still, good page .. let's just get it right... 64.56.253.1 (talk) 01:51, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We really need to educate in this article about Integrated Pest Management.The title also needs to be changed.The methods shown are mostly not done in isolation,therefore comparisons here are not balanced. An IPM approach includes vacuuming, steaming, use of pesticides, sealing, education of tenants, homeowners,and landlords,use of monitoring devices.. etc.. etc... Even an approach like heat treatment can be used as the mainstream treatment but also as part of a standard treatment when items are treated by heat in a chamber or van.. the piece about disease spread was really misinformation and could frighten people. An extensive study by Jerome Goddard a respected Medical Entomologist and colleagues, noted that there was not any evidence in the literature of a single case of bed bugs vectoring any infectious disease. 64.56.253.1 (talk) 02:07, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cold treatment?

Most of the cold treatment section is uncited...I doubt that putting some fans around to change the air temperature a bit would help at all considering they can survive below freezing...and the number of [citation needed]s around. I will likely rework the section on Sunday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.78.162 (talk) 08:55, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Bedbugs vs Rubbing Alcohol & Bleach & High Temperature Heat Gun

I recently captured living bedbugs, placed them in my bathroom sink. First I soaked one in household bleach, it just continued wiggling around!

   I noticed a bottle of hand sanitizer near the sink, and the thought to try that. I applied a squirt of the gel, containing 63% Ethyl Alcohol as the primary ingredient, other inactive ingredients.   Within less than a minute the bedbug was dead! I left the corpse

exposed for a few days (2-3), lifeless!!!

   We purchased a bottle of household rubbing alcohol, poured it into a spray bottle and headed for the bedroom bed! Pulled the mattress up, exposing the  scurrying bugs, and began spraying! First spraying individuals and

sure enough, they died rapidly!!!

   This being my first life time experience with these blood sucking vampire bedbugs, and unaware of how hidden and elusive that they are!
   I sprayed away at all the signs I could see, around the mattress edges and seems. Washed and throughly dried the sheets and pillow cases.
   It took a few weeks and they were back!  
    So my war has begun! This time,

I also used very high temperature heat gun ***EXTREME CAUTION***!!!! The high setting 1100 degrees will melt certain materials of a mattress immediately!! The low setting was 572 degrees!!! ***Danger of burning yourself, it will melt certain bed materials if held to close for to long!!! BUT “My Experience was” IT KILLED them in just one or two seconds !!! And I did what is recommended and vacuumed, with a shop vacuum...

    I went around the mattress, top and bottom, the box springs, top and sides!  
   More research, I’ve only learned about the distance they can cover!

5+ feet! Now I have to heat the bed frame, but what about the bottom of the box springs, a lot of work!

   I’ve recently been given a set of mattress and box springs covers, with zippers, I guess to completely seal the mattress and box springs...
    I’m also going to spray the bottom of the box springs, with rubbing alcohol before I seal it up!
    Hope this works, there are a lot of blood trails on my sheets!!
   Last comment, if you suspect bedbugs, a lighter color sheet reveals

the bedbug blood trail!

   Hard work and good luck! Randym332 (talk) 15:56, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]