PARIS - the city of LOVE now INVADED by BED BUGS

Well in order to eat the frogs legs you have to eat it's arsehole..... Those dirty Frenchies....

What about a good strong vacuum cleaner with the slit tip up the gaps and seams. Is that effective?

Maybe that explains the mad italian grandmother who had all the furnishings covered in plastic.....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: A strong vacuum cleaner with slit tip can suck them up but you would have to dump/kill them effectively after. If the vacuum cleaner uses throwaway bags that could become expensive quickly. Even if it's reusable storage system you would still need to "dump" them. I prefer dispatching them melee style with spikey tweezers it's very satisfactory to just get up and kill most of them (that you can find) in one go.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Indeed, a lot of old furniture/beds have nice hollow internals, the perfect hiding lairs. When you start killing them, or even without killing them if you detect and disturb them they release pheromones that put them all on alert and they go into stealth mode. So you have to spring the culling ops methodically

I've set things up in my flat so they to make a journey across open tile flooring from my clothing/carry implements to my bed...an open, dry, airy plane.. home to invited spiders lying in wait opportunistically to catch and suck on the vampiric intruders. They are also more vulnerable crawling on open hard surfaces.

@Ongshanks: There are good cheap portable hand held vacuum cleaners and they have one way flap valves in them... The beasts... Fuck it must be shit living in a city that is infested with them..... The double walled cups that sit under the legs of beds etc.. sound like good and effective traps.... Can you wax and polish the floors?

@Ongshanks: There is also putting a fan heater into a closet with a fake door, with a top and bottom vent... so it can lightly cook and dry out everything --- Lots of good stuff here ------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Bed_bug_control_tech ---------- Biopesticides Preliminary research has shown the fungal biopesticide Beauveria bassiana, which has been used for years as an outdoor organic pesticide, is also highly effective at eliminating bed bugs exposed to cotton fabric sprayed with fungus spores. It is also effective against bed bug colonies due to the spores carried by infected bugs back to their harborages. Unlike typical insecticides, exposure to the fungus does not kill instantly, but kills bugs within five days of exposure. Some people, especially those with compromised immune systems, may react negatively to the concentrated presence of the fungus directly following an application.[25] ----------

I think they are all immne to ddt.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/d....dt--from-miracle-che

https://mosquitoreviews.com/in....secticides/ddt-resis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: "No discernible effects on humans or other mammals"...I say we give it a go for old times sake!

@bigintol03: Actually there are some really clever things being used to trap them and kill them... ======= https://www.bedbugwholesale.co....m.au/products/bed-bu ========== https://www.insectomatic.com.a....u/products/bugo-bed- ======== https://www.mandmpest.com.au/p....ests/bed-bugs-treatm

@bigintol03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Bed_bug_control_tech