Question by Ron Brgundy:
Would four cups filled with water around the legs of the bed help with bed bugs?
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Answer by myv
Nope. You have to call an exterminator and have a heat treatment performed.No bed bug or egg can survive in heat at 140 degrees. It doesn’t damage the house at all, except the candles. Bombing your house will only cause the bugs to scatter to other parts of the house. And the poison doesn’t get into all corners of the house. The water is pointless because many of the bugs are already living in the bed. You will know this because you will see small blood stains on the matress. If you rent, your landlord needs to treat.
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I’m sorry I don’t really have first hand experience with this. I don’t think we have those in Oregon. But I do have ants and believe it or not this article says that ants will eat bedbugs.
So I got my info from wikipedia.
Due to the difficulty in eliminating the bugs from the room or dwelling, the (suspected) bed is isolated, thus removing the insects’ food source – humans. Bedbugs cannot cross petroleum jelly and have difficulty climbing metal or glass, hence each of the bed legs is put in a tin can (the bottom of which is thickly coated with petroleum jelly) to avoid movement from the bed to the hiding places. Although bedbugs cannot fly or jump, they have been observed climbing a higher surface in order to then fall to a lower one, such as climbing a wall in order to fall onto a bed. Hence alternatively, a double-sided sticky tape (such as carpet tape) is applied around each bed leg, or to keep each leg on a plastic furniture block in a tray of water.
Good luck with this! Don’t take it lying down! (no pun intended)
No, I’m afraid not. The successful way to part with your BB, is to call Terminix or Orkin.
Sorry but no it would not.=)