Question by Ambistoma:
How well would a poisoned hot-water bottle kill bedbugs?
Since bedbugs sense their prey by heat, my idea is to leave a heated water bottle out to draw them out. (This bottle or container would need a skin they could penetrate.) The liquid inside (perhaps pigs’ blood?) would have some sort of poison the insects would ingest and die from. How well would the components of this plan work?
P.S. 1) The medium for the poison wouldn’t have to be pigs’ blood, just something the bedbugs would be willing to suck up.
2) I thankfully don’t have bedbugs, I’ve just been reading about them.
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Answer by Bobby Cartola
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Pigs blood in a hot water bottle ?? nonsense. no no no the only reason to kill bedbugs is by spray.
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