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New York Super Bedbugs

Posted on December 15, 2009 by admin| 2 Comments

New York 300x250 New York Super Bedbugs

Visiting NY? You may need to be a bit more careful.

NY too now has bedbugs resistant to pesticides – including Deltamethrin – an important bedbug pesticide.

NY bedbugs are 264 time more Deltamethrin resistant than Florida bedbugs according to the Journal of Medical Entomology 45(6):1092-1101. 2008

Exterminators often use these insect neurotoxins for their effectiveness and “knock down” rates. Unfortunately, now they usually need to spray several times – not just once.

With bedbugs, direct contact with the spray is typically needed, the residue is less effective and bedbug eggs are much more resistant. By the time the eggs hatch, the pesticide is less toxic to the bedbugs and as a result re-spraying is needed to get the new bugs in their nymph or adult stage. Adult bedbugs hide as well and often avoid direct contact with the pesticide spray. Re-spraying encourages chemical resistance in bedbugs to develop. With world wide pest spraying – resistance has developed. With world wide travel, resistant bedbugs spread.

New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angles have all seen outbreaks of more resistant bedbugs.

Non-pesticide control is becoming more urgent. Not dealing with bedbugs is expensive.

Diatomaceous earth blends are leading contenders in physical control without pesticides.

An interesting alternative.

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Killing Bedbug Eggs

Posted on December 9, 2009 by admin| 6 Comments

Bedbug eggs

Bedbug eggs are a survival capsule.

Pesticides have less effect on bedbug eggs. Their capsule protects the eggs from pesticides.

Bedbugs can emerge after spraying when the pesticide residues are less effective.

Pesticide spraying may provide short term results. They are designed to lose toxicity fast.

Adults & nymphs sprayed on contact are usually be killed. They are often less susceptible to the pesticide residues.

Effective pesticide control usually relies on spraying multiple times to break the life-cycle – adults hide and bedbug eggs are hardy and hidden.

Bedbugs lay 300 eggs during their 6-12 month life cycle – up to 10 a day. Eggs hatch every 1 to 3 weeks or can last for months.

Eggs are cemented to a substrate and are hard to dislodge or vacuum off. The cover is resistant to some pesticides.

When eggs are laid, they can be sticky from the cement “glue” and can attach to anything – especially when brushed by clothes and bedding. Those eggs can attach and travel across the hall or around the world.

They are spread easily but are hard to control. Expensive not to control.

Long term physical controls such as DIATOMACEOUS EARTH blends have shown effective results in reducing pesticides in the home.

Newly emerged bedbug nymphs are physically damaged by any diatomaceous earth they touch – disrupting their internal water balance. As a result they dry out (desiccate) and die within 24 hours. The diatomaceous earth continues to provide control for as long as it is around – typically 6 months from a single application.

Combined with sanitation, physical control methods are becoming important with pesticide resistant bedbugs.

You may not want to know the cost of life with bedbugs.

Act as soon as you suspect bedbugs.

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Treating Bedbugs after Travel with Diatomaceous Earth

Posted on December 1, 2009 by admin| 2 Comments

As we are approaching the holiday season many travelers may be bringing back more than they planned. Bedbugs….

The world is in an epidemic of bedbug expansion.

New bedbug outbreaks occur every week. Casual travel habits can encourage new bedbug outbreaks after the holidays. Hatching time for the newly imported pests is a few weeks. Adults are active immediately. Infestations are expensive.

The Vancouver Olympics may see a similar problem to Sydney’s hotels- suffering a 90% infestation rate after their games. Costly.

Bedbug eggs are small and sticky – they attach to everything – clothes, suitcases, stuffed toys etc. with a light touch. Their nymphs are tiny and also hide in clothes, books and anything else you carry home. The adults are larger ( about the size of an apple seed ) and like suitcases and clothes to hide in. Especially anything that has lots of human scent – like unwashed clothes.

Bedbugs also like to travel across suitcases during transport looking for yours to attach to. The holds of aircraft are no longer fumigated.

PROTECTION STEPS:

Firstly, don’t leave suitcases on the floor or rugs overnight. Put them on luggage racks or on shelves. Bag clothing before and after use before storing in a room. Add a little diatomaceous earth to suitcase linings and soiled clothing bags. Put a little around bed posts as well. Inspect the mattresses and check for signs of bedbug droppings or blood spots. See the manager and move if bedbugs are suspected. Inaction costs money.

On arrival back home – open all bags in the garage, porch or kitchen. Keep the bags out of the bedroom & store away from living quarters – or on the balcony. Sprinkle a little Diatomaceous Earth inside the suitcases and sports bags. Cold temperatures will help kill them off as well.

Wash all clothes before using them again. Use a borax based soap and dry at hot temperatures. Have good clothes dry cleaned – leave them bagged for visits to the cleaners.

Got pets? Give them a Diatomaceous earth dusting on your return – rub it in. Bedbugs and fleas will be controlled and not spread around by your pets.

A little prevention is worth it !

Happy holidays!!!!

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BEDBUGS AVOID PESTICIDES

Posted on November 21, 2009 by admin| 1 Comment

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Well you may have bedbugs… Or they may be in your building….. Now what?

Call in the exterminators? Perhaps – but that solution might be short term, expensive, time consuming and traumatizing.

Bedbugs have developed resistance to many pesticides used by exterminators. They have been exposed world wide and have developed multiple resistances. University of Kentucky studies show 14 of 16 home bedbug samples resistant. New York bedbugs are very resistant.

Then they can travel to Canada – probably in luggage and spread.

Enduring bouts of chemical pesticides in your home may be the result.

It may be time to consider alternatives to pesticides in the home environment.

Time to apply integrated controls with heat treatment of household effects, alcohol, steam cleaning and DE-10 (diatomaceous earth preparation).

Infestation clean-up can be fast, non-toxic and long lasting.

Our entomologist with Canada-Bedbugs.com encourages integrated controls to be applied as soon as possible. Integrated control uses the bedbug’s behavior against them. Roy Bennett developed these techniques with the World Health Organization in West Africa.

Once an infestation starts in a building – expect it to spread.

Chemicals act mostly on contact, residues are not effective, bedbug behavior helps them avoid contact and repeated sprays are needed. The effectiveness is often short term. If all sources of bedbugs are often not eliminated – the problems grows.

Prevention tools such as DE-10 barriers helps to avoid the spread of bedbugs in buildings and bedrooms.

Canada-Bedbugs.com uses non-pesticide techniques.

Headquartered in Vancouver, they look forward to assisting during the Olympics to reduce bedbug exposure to visitors and participants. Metro Vancouver is currently suffering from a bedbug outbreak. After the Sydney games, over 90% of hotels had bedbugs and visitors took them home.

Will there be legal consequences?

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Toronto In Arms Over Bedbugs

Posted on November 20, 2009 by admin| 3 Comments

Toronto is a new epicenter of concern about bedbugs. Landlords, city officials and residents are meeting to find solutions. Is litigation far behind?

The CBC provided the following report:

TORONTO BEDBUG CRISIS MEETINGS – CBC VIDEO

As the bedbug infestations grow, panicked residents are demanding the city do something about it.

In reality, unless strategic measures are taken for each infested site or building – the problem will not go away.

Canada Bedbugs recommends non-pesticide “green” controls methods be used as early as possible.

Repeated spraying of insect toxic pesticides in residences may not solve much as bedbugs are resistant to the residual effects of sprays and hide from spray applications. Do you want to sleep on a sprayed bed as well? The long term genetic and immune health consequences are unknown.

Our heat treatments and diatomaceous earth will provide long term protection and control without pesticide residues.

Fast effective chemical free control. Not months of spraying.

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