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#165605 14-Feb-2015 21:24
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Hi

Unfortunately seemed to have arrived in our bedroom a week or two ago, not sure how.  There are lots of DIY things you can do to reduce their spread, hot cycling washing+drying all linen, mattress sealing covers, creating an isolated sleeping zone (that they can't reach) etc, but it's generally recommended to get a professional eradication visit ASAP.

Has anyone had to use a professional fumigator specially for bed bugs in the past? How successful was it?  Apparently lots of pest control people aren't really trained to handle bed bugs, as they are so much more difficult to eradicate than most other bugs/rodents.




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  #1239161 14-Feb-2015 22:45
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eek - I've heard they were a huge problem especially in the States, even in 5 star hotels.

I'd also like to know people who can recommend professionals and keep it handy in my address book



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  #1239177 14-Feb-2015 23:23
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If you want to bring in the Big Guns try John Morley www.pro-tek-systems.co.nz'
The dude has trained bed-bug-hunting beagle dogs, steam sterilisers etc etc.

Otherwise, DIY 'no bed bugs' bomb Kiwicare (mitre 10?) or Ecomist & Sniper Spray.

Take all your bedding, bag it in rubbish bags, put in your deep freeze for min 12 hours.
Remove mattress, plastic wrap & bomb it, spray toxic stuff into every nook & cranny of your bed base.
Spray along baseboards, around light switches, anywhere there's the tiniest gap for them to get behind.


Edit: a agh can't make link sorry stupid autocorrect

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  #1239223 15-Feb-2015 08:14
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How do you figure they are bed bugs? They are not that common in NZ. Did you go away somewhere?
Just worth checking out as we thought we had them but it turned out to be fleas from a neighbors cat using our door mat as a scratching post. Fleas are also easier to get rid of. Couple of bug bombs, Kiwicare no flea spray over the carpet and bed. Wash all bedding in hot water. 




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http://www.vultr.com/?ref=7033587-3B




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  #1239225 15-Feb-2015 08:24
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A place I stayed in Taupo had them they were painful causing itchy bits all over, they blamed the previous German tourists that used the room.

My sister had them in aussie and what she did was cover the mattress and her bed had reasonable legs on it so she put glass jars (minus any paper wrapping on them) under the legs and the bed bugs could not climb them and she would find dead ones around the legs of the bed.
You have to make sure there are no sheets close enough to the ground for them to climb on.

A hostel I stayed in had a similar thing but but was small tin cans with a powder of some sort in them.



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  #1239264 15-Feb-2015 10:49
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I found a single reddy brown oval shaped bug about 4mm long in the bedding. Red dots from blood on our white sheets. Multiple new itchy bites on skin every night. I sprayed vscuumed and flea bombed both upstairs bedrooms yesterday. Apparently your not supposed to use fleabombs because they are not lethal enough to bed bugs and all they do is disperse them more Potentially spreading them to other rooms.




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  #1239266 15-Feb-2015 10:53
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Yes i plan on sealing up the mattress, picking up a cheap metal frame base from the warehouse, isolating the bed legs and hot wash hot drying all the bedding Today. Also bought some "D... Earth" on trademe to sprinkle around the carpet edge.




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  #1239355 15-Feb-2015 13:25
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Remember that mature bed bugs can live for nearly a year without food and it is important to counter them quickly before the offspring get enough food to become fertile.

 
 
 

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  #1239365 15-Feb-2015 13:44
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Yeah you want to get a experienced professional in that can properly treat your mattresses, before you end up having to replace the mattresses.

They're not pleasant.  My university hostel room had them.  The campus doctor thought they were scabies bites, for which the treatment is smelly and uncomfortably.  It wasn't until I was studying entomology the next year that I came across a picture of the bugs I used to vacuum out of my hostel bed base that I realised that bed bugs aren't just something from a folk saying :-)

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  #1239380 15-Feb-2015 14:09
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They are just about as bad as fleas. Impossible to get rid of

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  #1239589 15-Feb-2015 20:26
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They like to catch rides from hotel to house via your baggage...etcetc

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  #1239614 15-Feb-2015 21:43
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+1 No Bed Bugs spray and bomb. Buy from the Hardware eg bunnings. It's good if you locate their habitation and spray that area. The spray breaks the breeding cycle so it takes a bit of persistence. Generally if you flea bomb they will simply move to the next bedroom. So maybe do the bed bug spray next door too. I've never used diatomaceous earth as I've never located where to buy. But heard it's very effective as it lacerates the bedbugs and they haemorrhage to death. Whatever you do, keep at it until you nail them. Good luck.

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  #1239639 16-Feb-2015 00:02
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diatomaceous earth is on trademe.

I got the kiwicare no bed bugs pack from mitre10. It's strange that they don't sell it at supermarket. Sprayed 3L of spray up stairs on everything and just let off another bomb in the bedroom.

Sleeping in the lounge tonight hopefully they don't leave the bedroom if they do they will have to walk through hopefully enough spray to kill them.




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  #1239649 16-Feb-2015 00:55
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kiwijunglist: diatomaceous earth is on trademe.

I got the kiwicare no bed bugs pack from mitre10. It's strange that they don't sell it at supermarket. Sprayed 3L of spray up stairs on everything and just let off another bomb in the bedroom.

Sleeping in the lounge tonight hopefully they don't leave the bedroom if they do they will have to walk through hopefully enough spray to kill them.


The kiwicare No bedbugs is just a re-label of the no fleas total I believe, the active ingredients are the same. We had them a few years ago, tried a cocktail of different ones but were hard to get rid of. Outdoor Mortein around the edges of floors, hot washes of sheets, bagging stuff up in a sprayed bin bag, the kiwi care and rentokil sprays. If it happened again I would get a professional in, the cost of chemicals alone ended up a lot more than it would've costed to get someone in.

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  #1239655 16-Feb-2015 03:27
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They can't eliminate software bugs, so I think you're SOOL with bed bugs sorry. tongue-out




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  #1239708 16-Feb-2015 09:05
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DarthKermit: They can't eliminate software bugs, so I think you're SOOL with bed bugs sorry. tongue-out


Mauricio seems to think that rubber chickens help :-)   

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