BedBugs

 

1. If you have customers who care about organics, pet safety and all that, one of the most effective insecticides I’ve found so far is orange oil. Yep, orange oil, a by product of orange juice manufacture, the stuff that makes orange peel smell like orange peel. It’s a ketone, like MEK and acetone, and a contact bug killer.

   Posted by GrumpyOldFart       08/25/2010  at  06:36 PM  



2. The return of bedbugs coincides with the return of liberals and especially Oblahblah.
   They were under control or unknown until Bush left office.

   Posted by grayjohn       08/25/2010  at  08:21 PM  



3. There were articles here on the same subject some months ago.  Something about an increase and treatment etc.  The way the paper reported it you’d think it had become a pandemic of dangerous magnitude.
   Anyway ... one of the things suggested was NOT making our beds. Really.  Article said that pulling back blankets and top sheets leaving bottom sheet exposed to air would work.

   Till now, that’s about all I read on the subject.

   Posted by peiper       08/26/2010  at  08:17 AM  



4. Vilmar has some DDT he can probably let you have (at a price)

   Posted by LyndonB       08/26/2010  at  09:01 PM  



5. Mick - Suspend SC should work well as a barrier spray. Like Delta Dust, it’s made from deltamethrin, another man-made pyrethrin.

   Steri-fab uses a dual quat (the didecyl dimethyl stuff) with a little phenothrin (the 3-Phenoxybenzyl stuff) mixed in. These are effective insecticides, though in very low amounts here. Mostly it’s the alcohol doing the immediate killing. leaving the insecticide to take out the eggs. Alcohol alone will NOT kill the eggs.

   It’s really overpriced though if you go through bottles of it. Assuming you have a spray bottle, you could make your own with a scant 1 teaspoon of D128 (the disinfectant the veterinarians use) in 10oz of alcohol and 6oz of distilled water (< $1/gal). So for $42 you get the equivalent of 12 1/2 bottles of Steri-Fab, and you’ll have enough D128 left over to last forever - enough to make another 750 batches. Use it to sanitize bathrooms too, 1oz per gallon water.

   Bedlam spray uses nearly twice as much phenothrin as Steri-fab, and has the N-Octyl pyrethrin energizer, similar to Drione dust. Works great, kills on contact, kills the eggs. But why spend the money? The exact same formula in Bedlam, same concentration, is used in Sprayway’s Good Night, which costs half as much and can be found at Home Depot and Ace Hardware. Bedlam and Good Night are OK for use on mattresses.

   Posted by Drew458       08/27/2010  at  09:09 AM  

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