How Do I Know if the Bed Bugs are Gone? 

If you haven't had a bite for ten years, then perhaps they're gone, but remember that they still might be just hiding.

These little nightmares cause ptsd in some ppl. Its a serious condition. Like an infestation phobia

I got rid of bedbugs on my own. The most important thing is literally don't let the bed bugs bite! and use diatomaceous earth (D.E.). So, how do you not let bed bugs bite you? There are many ways. Isolate the bed (don't let the bed touch the wall or other furniture) and ad interceptors or barriers (bedbugs can't climb smooth surfaces such as plastic or glass) or traps (can be as simple as Duct tape stick side up. ) . The point is you create a barrier (you can also sleep covered - wearing socks and gloves and mosquito head net or bug net. ) Of course if you are going to isolate the bed make sure that you kill all bugs inside the mattress / bed with something like 90% alcohol or Chlorox/bleach if suitable. I also heard that plastic covers on the bed work very well and they make a lot of sense.

To your first question: Yes. It's called "being asleep". Just get DE and powder around your bed and the bed frame. If you have bugs, they'll have to cross the DE to get to you, which will kill any bug that crawls through it. DON'T put DE in your sheets or clothes!!! While it is completely non toxic, it will irritate the hell out of your respiratory system and act like itching powder.

I call them and if I hear their tiny cellphones ringtones I'll know they're still in the area.

I discovered a bunch of bites (2 rows of 3 on my arm) about a month ago but found no signs of them. At first I thought they might have bit me when I was sitting in a comfy restaurant booth but then I got 2 new bites on my leg. I found no signs of them until yesterday. A live one just sitting there mocking me as I was about to sleep. Jeff, your videos have been keeping me sane in this moment of crisis. I think I would go insane if I didn't learn so much.

There's a closet where I keep all my sheets and comforters. I haven't seen any bed within the last 3-6 months. However, when I did laundry today, I had decided to wash my current sheets. I went into the closet with sheets and comforters and selected the ones of my choice and put them on my mattress. Let me remind you, I haven't seen a bug on my bed within the last 3-6 months. No black spots. No eggs. No nothing. Just now, I was just lying down watching TV on my bed and when I looked to the side, I saw one little black dot moving across my pillow. I thought it was just a little fly or something but when I got closer, I found that it was a baby bed bug who seemed to just hatched. After making that discovery, I smashed it with my finger and began to examine the surrounding area of my bed. I found two more bugs, one that was scurrying towards me and one that already took a meal of me. At that point, I was petrified. I don't know what to do.

Thanks for sharing. To prevent bed bugs from entering your home, experts advise vacuuming suitcases and washing clothes in hot water after returning from a vacation where you've seen signs of the pests.

Hey EVERYONE....If you have a problem with bedbugs,,you must must must check your CURTAINS...where I work we have been constantly fighting these nasty creatures and without fail, I find them in the 'valances' above the windows. They are in the crinkles in the curtains and valances. If you spread those crinkles apart? You will find them there. Check not only the room-side crinkles, but the wall-side too. If you have them in your place? They WILL be in those crinkles and curtain rods. Wash 'Em.

you're right, while spiders will eat bed bugs they won't prevent bed bugs from infesting a home and they won't eat enough to eliminate an infestation

100%=burn house to ground

I saw a bedbug at my friend's house and I flipped out. We had bedbugs a few years ago at our house from a suitcase after a vacation and thankfully we didn't have an infestation it was only a few in each room but it cost so much money to exterminate them. So I guess my friend will have to understand that I will not be hanging around her. Even if it were any bug I hate all bugs.

I like how he says if you don't have bugs or bites for 50-60 they are PROBABLY gone. ..... REALLY?!?!?!?

I realized last week I had them and spent well over 50 hours in my bedroom bagging, removing clutter etc. I have minimized everything and dried everything. Covers checked today 1 week later and I found 1 on my bed and the small bed my daughter was using next to mine on the mattresses I bagged and 1 on the wall for a total of 3. There were no signs in the 2 glue traps, under my intermediate supports and the 4 moats I put under the other legs. I have literally a fitted white sheet and 1 blanket to make it easier during the nights when I wake up feeling a strange tickle or whatever....nothing with my spotlight or spot checks all week until I tipped up that box spring and found 1. My daughter was relocated to the adjoining room as she only stays on weekends, but I did find one between her mattresses that are covered and one on the wall directly behind it. We have linear run baseboard heat that I sprinkled diatomaceous earth at the beginning of the week. Seems like I must have missed something....any advice? I am concerned that they could migrate or may have done so already. My daughter has glue boards under all 4 and no signs on a new bed in the other room when I set it up to get her out of my bug zone.

Put an Amazon Echo Dot in your bedroom. When you go to bed, say "Alexa, set a timer for 90 minutes". When the timer goes off, turn on your lights, throw off all your covers and inspect your bedsheet. If there are no bugs to be seen, re-set the Alexa timer for 90 minutes and perform the same inspection. Keep doing this throughout the night to make sure the bed bugs are not there.

A bed bug is a tiny vampire Wonder if you hold a cross up to one it would run away 😄!

We used something called DE and some spray and we did it about 4 times and they are either gone or are oddly not feeding for the last like 5 to 6 months.

thank you much and I'm glad the videos are helping, good luck in your battles and let me know if you have any questions

this is a complicated topic, what you need to understand is if you sleep in another room the bugs will go out in search of food and find you, I'm not saying to "use yourself as bait to keep them in a room" but you need to know the potential consequences of sleeping around your house, it's a topic there's no easy answer to and you need to make the right decision for you

It took me 5 different brands of pesticides to completely rid mine. An oil lamp lit around a troubled area will work to lure them out if hiding. They're attracted to heat & CO². After a week of no activity you can say they're pretty much sure gone. Check under carpets, dressers, magazines, etc... I thought mine were gone & found a few hanging around papers near the floor. I've found old non-hatched eggs behind wall pictures.

We have been dealing with bed bugs for about a year now. Bombs didn't work. Sprays didn't work. We used DE, and you can tell it does kill the bugs, but it was messy looking and you have to be patient. We have two teenagers, so we needed to move on to a different method in order to allow them to have friends over. Decided to go with a privately owned professional service. He used a derivative of Frontline called Phantom along with a sterilization agent. Within a week, they were gone... until now

rubbing alcohol can kill them on contact but remember that it is flammable, they don't live on your body and therefore treating yourself shouldn't be necessary, I would recommend running the dryer cycle for the full amount of time, it all depends how much clothes you have in the dryer and if they are wet or not

i recommend researching the pest control companies in your area and make sure they have experience treating bed bugs, from there its your decision but know that if you treat yourself that if its not done properly that you can make an infestation worse and more expensive in the long run

I'm sure your friend will understand. I recently discovered that the only person to visit my room a TV tech who I noticed took off his jacket & placed it near my bed while he worked most likely infested my room with bed bugs. I have scars on my arms from the itchy bug bites. I thought it was an allergic reaction to something. As soon as I found out I told my kids they cannot visit until I get this problem under control. they still insist on coming over but my room is quarantined off.

My friend is obsessed with bed bugs.. he just literally loves them.. at first I didnt know what they were I thought it was just a bug and I didn't rlly care I let him in my house my parents didnt know... I have bed bugs now and I'm so mad at myself for not looking everything up.. I lost all my friends even my bf.... this is freaking terrible I even lost the dude that gave me them.. it was on purpose and I'm so damn upset...

Isolating rooms is often not a good plan for bed bugs. With no food present they will sit and wait for some time for someone to sleep in the room again and therefore not come into contact with pesticides. I can't say whether or not it will work without seeing the infestation myself but room isolation is often not an effective plan.

I am on the verge of crying because, I don't know if I had a small infestation or a big one, and I am a nervous wreck that they will come back, What can you tell me?

SOMEONE ANSWER ME THIS: 1. Can beg bugs die by drowning with water? 2. Can we feel them when they crawl on our skin? 3. Do we feel it when they just bit us? 4. Do they give our pee a funny smell? 5. Can they get caught on adhesive (duct tape, carpet tape)? 6. Do anti bed bug sprays kill them or are they resistant? I can never find bed bugs around my bed during the day, just during night if i wake up. So waht i did is put carpet tape and duct around my bed, will that catch them?

I just found bed bugs the other night, when i did I immediately tossed out my mattress and box spring as well as my bed frame, and the desk that was setting beside my bed, when i did I saw about 5 bed bugs, the next day i got some DE and a day bed(no box spring) I put DE around all the corners of my wall, bed legs into cups with DE, I also vacuumed the entire floor(after sprinkling DE on it) and used a floor cleaner on the floor, I am scared to go sleep in my Room, I see no more signs,

Nuclear weapons will eliminate bedbugs.

50 ,60 days there is no bed bags.. i hired this company name terminex in new york and they ripped me off almost $1,000 dollars per 2 treatments and after the second treatment they assured me the bedbugs are gone. but i still got the problem and i complained about the issue and these guys said that i bought more bed bugs to the house and if i want to get rid of them i have to pay again the total amount becuase it wasnt their responsability. in other words i paid 1000 dollars for nothing watch out

I am losing my physiological health:((

tough question to answer, if it's only 2 nights the bugs may not move off of his bed that quick but there's no way for me to say for sure, I also question that only 1 room is infested, we usually recommend treating all bedrooms and couches to assure nothing is missed, treating only the rooms where bugs are seen with the naked eye is a recipe for failure, remember the bugs are small and hide well

I went over a year without bites and seen none. Then last night I found one crawling on me still no bites and boyfriend and I are very allergic. No sign of them on bed. Still haven't seen anymore.

God bless you and thanks a bunch!!! Question: I had a household bed bug treatment, and the problem died-down gradually. I noticed bugs/bites. Months down the road, I haven't seen live or dead bugs, nor am I bitten up anymore. is this my imagination, or is it possible for a 2nd insecticide treatment to eradicate the problem *over* *time* ?

My whole aprt building just found out that we all have bed bugs. We all told the Landlord and he said that we must have brought them in. after a lil digging we found out that this place had them b4 any of us moved in over 2yrs ago. we found them this past Fri and for two Weeks the Landlord has been working in the upstairs aprt and in mine. You tell me where they all came from if we found them the same day without telling each other to check

We NEVER caught a bug in any trap. We only SAW one single bug during the whole infestation, I stopped getting redness from bites, but still itched a bit! We used a steamer and Cedarcide about every day for a few MONTHS, Last bite was on the couch over a month ago. I'm hoping we're clear, and not just in a winter lull.... Saw a carpet beetle last night! Arg!

if the bug you found recently is related to the bug you found a year ago it may not be a bed bug because yes they should have been reproducing, I would save a sample for the pest control company to positively identify

Can't bed bugs cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

7 days after my roomate moved in, we had bedbugs, none before. 10 after roomate moved in a treatment was done. We were both getting bit but I am only MILDLY reactive to bites, my roomate is HIGHLY reactive. Exterminator came back, found ALL dead bugs, sprayed again even though she said that the spray will kill for 30 days. I am no longer getting bit but my Roomie IS! ALL animals have had baths, all clothes and bet stuff washed. What do we do????

We had to get a steamer, and used two types of cedar oil sprays. We're on day 3 of no bites... Monitors didn't find ANY bugs, and we only SAW one bug. But we had a LOT of bites! I think we're ahead right now, time will tell, sigh.

I'm so fucking tired of this shit. I went to visit my sweet grandmother and I found out that she has bed bugs. I guess one came home with me cuz now I have them. I wanna cry because I cant sleep at night. I'm not sleeping at all in fact. It's been 3 day since I've had atleast 4 hours of sleep.

I have read that the eggs can go dormant for up to a year and a half, bedbugs upto a year, or year and a half. Other sources said 2 weeks, and others said 6 months. What's with all the inconclusive or conflicting information out there? We had bugs over a year ago in the rooming house I am renting in, and sprayed twice on my floor, (was told by landlords it was 3 times though) and this last summer in a third room on the second floor once to my knowledge. Now, I seen a bedbug in my roommate's room (same floor as my room - top floor) one night at the end of November ; mid December, I found a bit of an infestation on my bed. Both times, I told the landlords. This year, as happened last year, they went back and forth between blaming me and my roommate. The third room that was sprayed in the summer, at first I was told it was for fruit flies. In mid-December, the story changed to grass fleas (while they pressed the bedbug infestation was my fault). Rewind to about 4 years ago from now, the previous landlord sprayed 4 times and replaced furniture... I share this all with you because I am wondering: WTActualF is going on? Is it us reintroducing, or is it in fact possible that these bugs can go dormant for up to a year and a half, hiding away in the walls, heating vents, etc.??? oh - and this time, my landlords have yelled at me that they "can't keep spraying" so I am now trying alternative methods (isopropyl alcohol 91%, straight and as part of a mix with tea tree oil and water) , bagging and keeping bagged clothes and items, laundering, regular cleaning regimen, and will soon be getting the DE... I feel so alone in the immediate battle in front of me between this regimen, arguing that it needs to be treated and the landlords as well as my one roommate thinking I'm crazy.... please... help...

this may sound corny but we found bedbugs in our house and it was only in two rooms. i got a hairbrained idea since im broke of using duct tape and bleach/raid mix. shockingly enough the duct tape pulled eggs and bodies off and the bleach raid combo killed what was left. also poured baby powder and watched a few walk through it and just flop over dead...did i discover a new way to kill em?

i have a question.. last week my apartment got sprayed for bedbugs because i found a bedbug on my mattress and on my cats bed..my wife and daughter were the only getting bit.. last night my wife got bit again and i decided to check my sheets...sure enough a bed bug...and ii found one on my sofa and the cat bed again.. its only been a week but shouldnt they be dying by now? howlong does it take for the pesticide to work??

Sleep in your room otherwise they may spread making it harder to get rid of them. I learned that the hard way.

ASSISTANCE HELP- I think I have.. I KNOW I have bed bugs and have NEVER seen them walk around, I cant find them on my mattress etc, THEY BITE random everywhere, can I use 91% alcohol and 1 part water=mix ratio spray bottle and spray MY BODY with it or the mattress etc? I cant understand why I can NEVER see them, they are SOOO fast? Do they LIVE in my hair and on my body, I have a phobia and I HATE them. ALSO how long do I need them in the dryer is 10 min enough? please help if possible, thank U

Back in the olden day's people had tall beds and set lids under the legs of the bed and filled them with Turpentine.

Anyone actually get rid of these using tee tree oil and DE? We vacuumed everything and put DE absolutely everywhere. Sprinkled all through carpet, in any crack or hole I could find in our bed and put around all baseboards as well. We also purchased a mattress and box spring cover. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! We are to the point every time we leave the house we heat our clothes on sterilize for an hour and when we get home we heat our clothes on sterilize as well.

"How Do I Know if the Bed Bugs are Gone? " simple; You Don't. the price of infestation, is Constant Vigilance And Effort.

I used a flame thrower , burnt the house to the ground , built a new house , new beds , installed automatic scheduled bulit in insecticide sprays in every room. And i still found a darned bedbug. What now ?

Isnt there some kind of gadget you can buy that attracts them and then zaps them like a mosquito zapper except its not a light or heat device? Or a device that repeals them so they want to leave your house?

Can bed bugs only bite u once or do they always bite in multiples

research has yet to determine if residual application to the perimeter of the room quarterly or monthly assists at any level in preventing bed bug infestations in the future, it's largely thought that it probably has little to no effect but research has to yet to confirm

I agree with abileneeagle51.... those things are evil and come from hell!!!

He speaks the truth. You run high risk of infesting your couches also. This happened to me, fortunately my couches were old and it was tax time.

probably!

I haven’t had bed bugs all my life until I found one yesterday. I got them from a former friend who had them at his house and he didn’t tell me until he came over to my house one day and I kicked him out. The next day, I look at my bed after doing the baking soda treatment, I have found no bed bugs as of this morning and I have no marks. I’m doing the heat treatment as of now. I got all my heaters on high and I bought bed bug killer spray and I’m gonna see if that helps but I’m pretty sure it does cause I heard it did. I used this kind of spray for fleas and it got rid of them in an instant. I would say go for the heat treatment as that will kill bed bugs in an instant and leave the heat on for about 90 minutes or more however I would just keep the heat on for 24-48 hours

So, after successful treatment..would you recommend a light monthly pesticide spraying (say, perimeters) to ensure you keep killing any bugs for a year or more? Since they can go so long without a blood meal, that seems the only way to make sure you get any that are hiding in the walls/crevices/etc. What I want to avoid is having to do the twice-daily vacuuming and washing-bagging everything, all over again!

@specture99 nah. those bed bed bugs scarred you for life. just try to forget about it. why did god have to create bedbugs?

50 to 60 days without seeing a bug, does that count dead ones

We have them. But me and my wife sleep in our recliners not in a bed. We have been using steam and Diatomaceous Earth,we have less of them but can not kill them all help

Are you saying to use yourself as bug bait? Surely you are not serious. I vacated my room over a month ago. I sleep on my living room sofa instead of my spare bedroom as the two rooms are close together and I'm afraid they will visit me in the middle of the night. My arms are scarred. There is no way am going back to that room anytime soon. It's being treated as well as the other room next door but I feel I cannot ever sleep there again. It will not be anytime soon.

It’s never the same your right!

i live in arab word and i think that i have a bed bugs in my room so i take every thing in my room and put it in my closed backyard where the sun is high its almost 70 CelsiusDegrees there but as u said after 10 days i note that theres a spots all over My little daughter im doing out of my mind !!!! i live in jordan so There are not any ways to combat insects Will you help me to live in peace???

How soon can you move back into the room after treatment

bedbugs forlife..

They were only in this apartment for 10 DAYS before we had our first treatment done and the second treatment was done 5 days after the first one. MY ROOM seems to be free and clear but she is getting BIT to heck. We also have DE made for insects and have put it EVERYWHERE! Seems to have worked for ME! But not for HER! IDK.

Just now, midnight finding a bed bug... Paranoid ass hell

If i saw a bed bug on my mattress i wpuld throw a grenade boom!! There gone

Hi Bed Bug TV, How effective are interception devices around the legs of the bed? Latelty, I have seen about one bed bug a day, and or receiving a bite or two every other day or so. They are mainly contained in my room, and I am now sleeping on an air matress in the middle of my room while my matress/boxspring/headboards have been sitting in the arizona summer for the past week. Do you think I should buy a new bed a live a little more normally? I have been receiving the traditional treatment also, I am still seeing one a day as I said.

is it possible that there may be only 2 or 3 left? i treated all weekend & I found 2 this morning. should I treat again?

God forbid is right!

not even sure how to respond to this...

Since we are in the cold winter season, are bed bugs likely to stay in your car? Should I be concerned about getting rid of them in my car?

Is it possible to have brought just ONE home with me? I went on an airplane trip, and a couple days after my return, I found a bug in my bed. I'm still unsure if it is a bed bug or tick. I caught it and put it in 2 Ziploc baggies (lol) My purpose was to observe (to see how long it'll live w/o food n air, or If it'll have babies, how long, to that specific bug, or to time gestation, etc.) That was 4 MONTHS AGO! IT'S STILL ALIVE!! I have washed ALL linens every week, sprayed 90% alcohol everywhere daily, and sprinkled A LOT of baking soda on any carpet in the house. I regularly check the bed seams, and spray alcohol. (I already had a mattress cover) I've not seen any more in these 4 months, is it possible that was the only one? Is there anything else I should or should not do?

DIATOMACEOUS EARTH...pull your bed out 6 inches from the wall...make an island...sprinkle DE AROUND YOUR BED...GONE...

A inexpensive clothes steamer will do the trip... And you won't have to wait 60 long ass days waiting to see if you have bites! Who has time for that headache??? Do your research people

Hpw effective is heat treatment?

They should just train more dogs to sniff them out. I think I have them, but don't see any on the bed. I have a cover for my mattress but not for the box spring. But I can't lift it by myself to check underneath it.

air mattress

This video needs to be updated. - some of the devices are not available today (2016)

Where can I buy the C02 emitter and how much will it cost?

I just found bugs in my brothers room. The stains on the mattress are present. I tried heating the house to 90 degrees (the highest our heating system goes) and putting a space heater in the room. I've also sprayed bleach, ammonia on the stained area. My mother also vaccumed the bug she saw yesterday but dont they stay alive in the vaccum.

so does that mean u have to throw out your televisions. should u also pull up the carpet. I seen them in my brothers room and one in my room but my bed still had the plastic on the bed spring and mattress.

I meant to say how can I know if I have new bites or if they were there how long does it take for a bite to grow or they were old bites please help me understand what's going on with the situation thank you

I was told by the pest control company that sprayed my place that they could lay dormant for up to seven months, is this correct?

Would you mind posting a link to your bedbug interception device video?

I feel like that's a way to start off a Bed Bugs Anonymous meeting, "My name is Jeff, and I have bed bugs". Luckily all Jeff's don't have bed bugs, at least I don't think I have them. I'm sure you are bringing one at a time. You need to make sure you dry or clean your belongings before bringing them in from staying at his house to prevent reintroducing them.

Can you have BB and not see any eggs or live BB on your mattress or box spring? Once you incase your box spring and mattress how long before they leave evidence such as poop or eggs? If I wash my sheets every night will they not want to hide on my covered mattress or box spring or are they too dumb to realise every 24 hours the sheets get pulled off?

I found beg bugs in my couch and it was just a few here and there. But i had my whole apartment treated. Then i would only see one or two every 3-4 days apart. Never found any in or around my bed, just my furniture. So i had it treated a second time. It has been 2 months since the second treatment and i had not seen any at all. But i just found one on my chair. What does this mean?

I found a total of 8 bedbugs in the mattress crevice and no signs anywhere else. Is it possible that there are only a few? I didn't see eggs or any other BB remains anywhere. I am worried I missed something. Should I spray the mattress and box spring, the walls and floors? Would steaming the mattress and box spring be more effective? I plan on getting a mattress encasement but I want to make sure all of them are gone before putting it on. Also, what are the chance that the other beds in the house will be infected?

ALSO- I remember calling pest control to come fix it years ago and they checked it and didnt treat my place because they didnt see them so he left, but they went away. NOW few years later I see them again and they WONT go away.. so should I treat it myself or get treatment will he help or is the pest control person useless?

the sad part is that you go on holiday and you find one and then you have to go through all the crap to try to not leave with some eggs in your clothes and you wash everything and fkin hell man :))

So im moving out of a house that is untreated into a house that is bug free how do i treat my tv dvd player hygeen stuff and odd and ends

RogerRoo thank you very much.

Is it possible to have only one bug? I was getting bit every three-four days, and ended up finding one bed bug. I thoroughly searched for them after finding the one and found no other bugs, no eggs, and only a few spots of excrement and a couple skin sheds. I treated for them, and did everything I could possibly do, and haven't found any signs or had any bites since, and it's been a week. I also put down powder around the door going into my closet and around the heat registers near my bed, moved my bed away from the wall, and put sticky traps around the legs. I've found no bugs in the powder or the traps.

what type of spray did you use? Temprid sc works really great.

I went 2 years with out any problems and now our of the blue I saw a nymph. Now What!?!?

Everytime you vaccum you have to empty it because if you don't they could get out of the vaccum. and just wonder around and see where they hide.