When you get bedbugs and want to prevent them from getting on your bed (after treatment, say) you pull your bed away from the wall, thus limiting the surfaces they can transfer from. If you also put your bedposts in interceptor traps you’re pretty safe from them. They’ll get stuck in the traps and be unable to get out.
Source: had to deal with the bastards for a year because of a useless landlord and incompetent exterminator. Got really, really good at pest management.
I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.
I’ve heard that too, but it seems pretty unlikely and I never experienced it when I had bedbugs. Plus it would have to be a pregnant(?) bedbug to continue to spread the infestation, otherwise the rare one that dropped on the bed would be stuck there and eventually die…
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
When you get bedbugs and want to prevent them from getting on your bed (after treatment, say) you pull your bed away from the wall, thus limiting the surfaces they can transfer from. If you also put your bedposts in interceptor traps you’re pretty safe from them. They’ll get stuck in the traps and be unable to get out.
Source: had to deal with the bastards for a year because of a useless landlord and incompetent exterminator. Got really, really good at pest management.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
TIL
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Ha, stupid bedbugs. A trap like that would probably never fool me!
Alteon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 months ago
I’ve heard that too, but it seems pretty unlikely and I never experienced it when I had bedbugs. Plus it would have to be a pregnant(?) bedbug to continue to spread the infestation, otherwise the rare one that dropped on the bed would be stuck there and eventually die…
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I dunno if they’re quite that smart. If they are, they didn’t do that when I had them.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Right, but in that case you could get a frame with a headboard.
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
A headboard touching the ground just invites them in. If the headboard is removable, remove it temporarily.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They are mounted to the same frame you said you put on the trap stands.