Question by Glen:
Would it not be easier to freeze bed bugs to death than heat them to 70 deg ?
Would it not be easier to freeze rather than heat them to death ?
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Answer by CJlove
bed bugs go into hibernation in cold, you’d have to get them to at least 30 degrees below freezing to freeze part of them, even if one lived they would mate and or already have eggs and then, you’d still have bedbugs.
Heat kills them and that is the better way to get rid of them.
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Its is easier to heat up a house than to freeze it enough to kill bed bugs.
Easier? Yes. But freezing is less effective than heating.
Bed bugs die within a few hours if sufficiently heated…110°F to 120°F minimum for a few hours. However, heating isn’t always feasible. It’s fairly easy to kill bedbugs with heat if you are sterilizing small object, like clothing or a suitcase. But heat can’t be used to kill bedbugs in a house. It is impossible to raise the temperature of an entire house to 120°F. There would always be cracks and crevices that were not sufficiently heated even if you blasted your furnace for hours.
For clothing and suitcases: Place these in black plastic bags. Then place the bags in the Sun for at least 3 hours. (I would actually leave the bags in the Sun for several days, to be safe.) This method will not work in colder climates in the Winter. The weather must be warm to kill bedbugs with this method.
While freezing can effectively kill bed bugs, temperatures must remain extremely low for an extended period of time. Freezing temperatures outside may be used to kill bed bugs, but can take several days (at 0°F) to almost a week (at 20°F).
For home infestations, your first line of defense is to call an exterminator.
I hope this helps.
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