The following are all reported methods individuals have tried in attempting to self-treat or prevent bed bugs and bed bug bites. Please note, that when attempting to self-treat a bed bug infestation the chances are that the infestation will only be made worse, causing more expenses and more heartache for everyone involved.

1. Leaving the Lights On

   What it is supposed to to - Sleeping with the lights on is meant to confuse bugs into not biting because they think that it is day time

   What it really does - Bed Bugs will still bite. They are usually most active during the dusk hours because they have a meal. Bed bugs are attracted to the CO2 and body heat emitted from your body. The will still detect you on the bed and will still bite. Not to mention the increased electric bill!

2. Eliminating Heat

   What it is supposed to do - Turning off the heat during the winter months is thought by some to freeze the bed bugs and in effect kill them off.

   What it really does - The lack of heat can freeze water pipes, propane lines, and more in your home, all the wile, not allowing the home to get cold enough to exterminate bed bugs. This requires EXTREME temperatures.

3. Olive Oil

   What it is supposed to do - Covering your body in olive oil before going to bed makes your skin so slippery that bed bugs cannot climb on or off of your body.

   What it really does - Bed bugs can slide underneath your body, and will continue to bite all areas of skin that are touching the mattress, that is, if they truly cannot walk on your body. Don't forget the messy sheets you will wake up to in the morning!

4. Bug Bombs

   What it is supposed to do - Setting off bombs inside the home full of insecticide (similar products are often used for fleas) will fully cover the area and effectively exterminate any bed bugs.

   What it really does - Bombing of an area for bed bugs has the tenancy to spread the infestation. All chemical bombings are risky procedures, and take the chance of contamination of many items. Bombing can also blow windows out of buildings due to the increased pressure inside.

5. Gasoline/Kerosene/Turpentine

   What it is supposed to do - Dousing beds, couches, and entire residences in diesel fuel or kerosene will inhibit the movement of bed bugs, and eventually kill them off for lack of food.

   What it really does - Can you say "Fire Hazard"? This method is not onlyextremely dangerous, there is also no proof that it is actually effective.

Other Myths

Sulfur Burning - burning sulfur inside of the home

Fire Extinguishers - Spraying on bed bugs to attempt to freeze them

Exterior Pesticides - using pesticides that are not effective against bed bugs

WD-40 - Spraying the chemical directly on bugs

Baking Soda/Rubbing Alcohol - Applying this combination to mattress, sofa, etc.

With all of the myths going on surrounding bed bug treatment and prevention, we at A3 Superior Pest Control ask that you do not attempt to self-treat. Please call a pest control professional. To contact A3 Superior, call 1-877-757-7767.

YES! If you use Nature's Defender which has Cedar Oil and Silane. This is a contact killer. The silane makes each molecule of cedar 8 times more potent. The cedar must contact the bug or larvae to kill it. This will happen within 40 seconds of the smallest drop. I bought this product online at Ohio Cedar Oil and tested it myself.

Thank you.

-I would like to add that while Cedar Oil may be a contact killer, it will not be sufficient to rid a residence of bed bugs. You must use heat or a residual killer. Most bed bugs only come out at night, so if you spray the bugs you find during the day, there are probably hundreds that you didn't get. You will need a PCO to coat your bed, mattress, other furniture, baseboards, and outlet covers with a residual killer, so any bug that contacts that place later will die.

Contact killers may give you more confidence, but they cannot solve the problem alone.

No although being bitten by bedbugs can cause itching. They also cause an allergic reaction to the coagulant and anaesthetic they inject into people's blood, which can result in painful rashes or weals to appear on the skin of some people. But they do not transmit any fever or diseases like some mosquitoes or fleas might when they bite you.

All members of the arachnid family have eight legs each. This includes:

• Spiders
• Scorpions
• Ticks
• Mites

If you think you may have a bug problem in your bed where you live, because they only come out to feed off you at night when it is dark and usually when you are fast asleep, and because you will not feel anything when they are actually feeding off you, it is easiest to check for their presence in daylight, such as when you strip and make your bed.

you may or may not see little red marks or blisters on your body, as not everyone gets them but some get them very conspicuously with really large looking blisters all over their body. But whether you see red marks on you or not, You really need to inspect your mattress and turn it, if you think you may have been bitten during the night as the most likely place some will be hiding in the daytime is either on the underside or in the folds or crevices of the bed's mattress.

If you disturb them during the day, such as when you make your bed, you may see them rushing around to find somewhere dark because they do not like light. Also any cracks in the bed's structure or furniture very near the bed or under the carpet underneath or near the bed are all common hiding places.

Remember they are reddish brown in colour and usually look very flat about the size of a small ant, but the nymphs are much smaller than the adults but still very visible to the naked eye during daylight. Other signs are small blood spotsover your sheets or pillows or on your mattress, or perhaps on the walls near your bed or else discarded bedbug nymph skins on your sheets in the bed or nearby, and a rather unpleasant musty smell.

Be aware "YOU" yourself do not get bedbugs but "A BED" that you use may do. So in say a hotel bed, which three different people sleep in on three successive nights, each of those people will have a bedbug problem only while they are in that bedroom.

When they check out of the hotel in the morning in most cases they will leave the bedbug problem behind them, for the next occupant of that room will inherit it. But occasionally if you do have the misfortune to sleep in an infested bed when away from home and leave your luggage or clothing near the bed, it is possible one or more female bedbugs may lay their eggs in your luggage or clothing. A favourite place is in side a holdall where the eggs will get stuck to a hard surface inside and are not very easy to see. So you may then unwittingly carry the bedbug problem with you, and possibly the eggs may then hatch where you live after you get home, and then you have got a bedbug problem in your home which may not become apparent for weeks after the trip where you first got the problem.

Wherever the eggs hatch the nymphs will detect the CO2 of anybody nearby who is asleep and will instinctively make for the source, which means make for the bed and climb up to feed off whoever is sleeping in that bed and they then make their new home nearby, such as in the folds of the mattress.

Bedbugs set up their home very near to a bed because they need human blood as their food. They also have the ability to sense CO2 breathed out by a person who is asleep and the bedbugs are instinctively attracted to the source, that is you, if it happens to be the CO2 you are breathing out it detects when it wants food.

Thats right. Spiders do produce two entirely different "types" of thread. They use the non sticky threads as spokes to move around their web while they build the proper sticky bits.